From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. rancor, ostensible, extol, clement, adamant, disparity, cliche. I wish that I could _____ your recent work, but as the _____ goes, workers like you are a dime a dozen. I've been keeping you on the payroll despite your recent incompetence, but it must end now. The president is _____ about cutting unnecessary costs, so I'm afraid that I'm going to have to let you go. I can't be _____ with you any longer.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. inexorable, disparity, opus, diffident, ostensible, clement, rancor. B. When the manager noticed the ____ between the amount of cash in the register and the total of the nightly bank deposit, he never suspected Yvonne. ____ and mild mannered, she nonetheless was a criminal with utmost ____ for the law. Stealing had been a[n] ____ part of her life for as long as she could remember, and she had no plans to correct her habits. She had the ____ belief that her crimes were works of art, and her latest ____ required a handful of stolen cash from her job at the restaurant.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. divulge, gregarious, abet, coerce, temerity, jaundiced, insipid. Jasmine had thought that her irresponsible days of _____ were far behind her until Kayla showed up at her door. After only three days of freedom from the county correctional facility, Kayla had begun her old scheming again. She went to the house to _____ Jasmine into helping her move a truckload of stolen goods to another state-an easy job, she claimed, and virtually no risk. It would even be fun, she claimed. "Let me get this straight. You've been out of jail for three days, and you already want me to _____ you in your scheme to commit a crime? Are you crazy?" Jasmine still had a[n] _____ attitude toward her sister because Kayla, prior to her first sentence, "borrowed" Jasmine's car for a robbery and nearly got Jasmine arrested as a result. "Sorry, Kayla, but I'm quite happy with my _____ , uneventful life. Please leave, and don't come back."

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will nol be used. glib, extrovert, decorum, belie, protean, propagate, journeyman. In only two weeks, the disease outbreak _____ beyond the borders of its initial region to four continents. The _____ bacteria responsible was often missed by medical _____ in lab tests because it often changes in appearance and resembles other harmless strains of bacteria. The rampant purchase of vaccines _____ the false bravado of critics who offered _____ dismissals of the threat of deadly germs.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. cliche ostensible extol clement adamant disparity rancor A. I wish that I could _____ your recent work, but as the ____ _ goes, workers like you are a dime a dozen. I've been keeping you on the payroll despite your recent incompetence, but it must end now. The president is _____ about cutting unnecessary costs, so I'm afraid that I'm going to have to let you go. I wish you more _____ times in the future . From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. inexorable ostensible disparity clement opus rancor diffident B. When the manager noticed the _____ between the amount of cash in the register and the total of the nightly bank deposit, he never suspected Yvonne. _____ mild mannered and _____ in the office, she would engage in arguments filled with _____ and threats at home; her husband knew that the _____ result of her stealing would be jail. She felt, however, that one huge theft of the company payroll would be construed as the work of an outsider, not the grand, climactic ____ _ of her career in crime.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. charlatan levity naive bask enraptured fickle hoax mundane amicable A. When the ___ citizens of Reynoldsville finally realized that their forty-cent bottles of miracle sap contained nothing more than licorice extract and whiskey, they formed a lynch mob and searched for the ___ who had sold the fake elixir. Fortunately, Colonel Britton, the quack they were looking for, had already taken his wagon and quietly left town before down. He rode nonstop for a full day until, in his usual routine, he pulled far off the trail and spent a day restocking his miracle sap, occasionally breaking to partake of some himself. ___ by the beautiful scenery of the Black Hills, Britton didn't waste his opportunity to ___ in the low autumn sun for the reminder of the afternoon. While most of his clientele were desensitized to the beauty of nature after spending harsh lives in it, Britton never once considered his private outings to be ___; if he didn't spend at least a few hours enjoying nature every week, he had trouble maintaining his ___ demeanor whenever he rolled into a new town. If Britton didn't at least appear to be happy, people were not going to purchase his tonic, whether it was a[n] ___ or not. His customers were very ___ about spending their money; if they had even the slightest notion that Britton's product was a scam, they would not buy it.

Find the number of x-intercepts of the function.

$$y=-2 x^{2}+x+7$$

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Chauvinist, belated, maul, egalitarian, ostentatious. The corporation claimed to endorse _____ company policies, but some of the managers were ______ who refused to promote anyone not native to Scandinavia. One of the foreign employees eventually filed suit against the company, and in two years, was awarded the _____ promotion he had long deserved.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

aleatory

inveigh

ameliorate

otiose

profligate

asperity

exegesis

Tina liked her new first-floor apartment, but she couldn't stand the ____________ upstairs tenants, who partied incessantly though the night, keeping everyone awake. After enduring several days of nonstop music and stomping, Tina visited the noisy neighbor and spoke with a[n] ____________ she usually reserved for dealing with the most difficult of people.

"You shouldn't require a[n] ____________ of the lease to know that it's not proper to disturb every tenant in the building with your noise!" screamed Tina, in order to be heard over the blaring stereo. The offending neighbor simply closed the door, leaving Tina standing in the hall alone. During the week that followed, Tina encouraged her other neighbors to call the landlord and ____________ against the habits of the noisy tenants so as to ____________ the living conditions within the apartment building.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. fetid, venal, torpor, collate, genteel, enthrall, officious. The sight of the city skyline in the distance _____ Eddie, who had never been to the foreign metropolis, but the _____ smell emanating from mounds of trash surrounding the suburban apartment buildings quickly made him wonder if the city were as _____ as the movies had often portrayed it. He would learn over the next few weeks that the only way to conduct business was to bribe the legion of _____ city clerks to process paperwork or else it would simply be "lost" behind a filing cabinet, or the clerks would _____ the stacks so that applicants who didn't bribe would be placed on the bottom of the pile.

Termina cada oración con ideas originales. Para tener una vida sana, se debe...

From the list below, supply the words needed lo complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Gaunt, effrontery, mire, guerrilla, sector, undue, chafe. The _____ have been at war with the regime for two years, and the hardship of living in a remote ______ of the mountains has taken its toll. Starvation and constant movement have giver the young soldiers ______ faces. To save supplies, the rebels avoid any ______ activity, and they travel only through the ______ of the lowlands, where the regime cannot pursue them with heavy military machines without sinking in the mud.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. evoke, inane, expatriate, sere, heinous, enhance, frowzy, postulate. Jerry squinted and ran his hand through his _____ mop of hair. The Pacific sun was already high in the sky, and he had a lot of work to accomplish before his guests arrived that evening. Originally from a Minnesota dairy, Jerry had lived on the tiny Micronesian island for over sixteen years. He never really considered himself to be a[n] _____, but then again, he didn't plan to return to the United States, either. Thinking that it might be a good idea to _____ his front yard before his visitors arrived, Jerry grabbed a machete and walked to the coconut grove in front of his shack. Huffing, Jerry chopped at the _____, withered fronds hanging against the trunks of the palm trees. When he finished cutting the fronds, he gathered the stray coconuts-some months old-and piled them in the corner of his yard. The yard looked sharp, even with Jerry's dilapidated shack in the background. As a bonus, Jerry decided to place two rows of tiki-torches along the path to the shack. Jerry thought that such trinkets were _____, but he wanted his two nieces from Cleveland to get the total island experience.

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. condone, officious, nuance, cult, connoisseur, credence, torpor, dilettante. The chef, tucked away in the kitchen, nervously awaited the report from the latest critic. Knowing that Mr. Tahoma was a[n] _____ of Peruvian cuisine and a weekly newspaper columnist with a[n] ____ following, the chef hoped that the waiters refrained from the _____ behavior that well-known food critics must often endure from servers. The chef had run the restaurant for twenty-eight years; he was certainly not a[n] _____ in matters of cooking, but owing to a decline in customers, he worried about the fate of the business. He could only hope that Mr. Tahoma would rave about the many subtle _____ in the meal. A positive review, combined with the _____ accorded to the column, might be all that the chef needed to save the restaurant.