Nouns and Adjectives or Adverbs in Two Blank Texts

The old man was known by all to be a              . He spent little on himself and was particularly               with the needs and wants of his family.

One could call the small town rather  __________, for most of its inhabitants knew little more than the saws and  ____________ repeated for generations by others who had not left the same locality.

The notoriously  _________ boss often seemed like he loved talking to his employees, while many other times he dismissed them with short answers and seemed like a  __________  .

The text"s meaning was so __________ that no __________ could make it truly understandable.

Claire’s __________ of the cold was understandable since it was directly __________ to her love of the summer heat.

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. From the time of her birth, the girl had been __________, always disobeying the __________ of her elders.

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. The young street fighter’s attitude matched his demeanor in the fighting ring; it was quite __________ and could leave cutting psychological wounds as damaging as any physical __________.

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. Reactions to the novelist’s most recent work are surprisingly polarized; if a review is not a(n) __________ celebrating the work"s modern elements, it is a __________ critique perceiving the same elements as blatant flaws.

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. Suzy thought Kevin would prove to be ­­­­­­­­­­­__________, but she discovered instead that his behavior was such a model of __________ that he could never be considered a spendthrift.

Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence. Although the politican contested the claims as pure __________, the journalist guaranteed they were __________.