Two Adjectives or Adverbs in Two Blank Texts

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The raft ________floated on the___________ocean waves, lulling the young man to sleep under the rays of the summer sun.

buoyantly . . . warm lightly . . . warm enjoyably . . . morning ceaselessly . . . fleeting placidly . . . undulating

After fifty years of marriage, ____________affairs still did not tire the old couple.  They _____________persevered in the often overwhelming duties of their life-long commitment.

diurnal . . . regularly connubial . . . doggedly amorous . . . joyfully erotic . . . rapaciously tedious . . . lovingly

Not used to the etiquette of high society, the common man behaved __________, much to the chagrin of the __________ and endlessly polite dinner guests.

aptly . . . glib tediously . . . boorish indecorously . . . boorish tediously . . . glib indecorously . . . prudish

__________ owls of that species have __________, fluff on their bellies, and don"t lose their striped appearance until they molt and gain their adult feathers when they"re a year old.

precarious . . . phlegmatic ambiguous . . . apathetic hegemonic . . . caustic fledgling . . . striated juvenile . . . pedantic

The __________ manner of the young man was in stark contrast with the __________ older businessman.

pellucid . . . limpid esurient ... penurious tedious . . . timorous decorous . . . boorish urbane ... phlegmatic

Suzanne never doubted the words of even the most __________ liar. Her __________ personality led her to fall into the plotting hands of even the most well known scoundrels.

repentant . . . charitable fulminating . . . placid mendacious . . . ingenuous notable . . . forgiving loquacious . . . rapt

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. Dave took everything that was said to him seriously, even __________ comments, which often forced his friends to digress from the topic of conversation to explain jokes which were normally left __________.

viscous . . . querulous filial . . . luminous facetious . . . tacit pusillanimous . . . pithy sportive . . . austere

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. The butler completed his tasks in a __________ manner, barely paying attention to his work as he overheard the household"s __________ scandal in its earliest stages of hushed conversations and snide comments.

pervasive . . . aggrandized sordid . . . boisterous perfunctory . . . nascent hackneyed . . . implacable desultory . . . resolute

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. The young monk was finally fed up with the __________ actions of his confrère, whose sweet-seeming piety was a mask for a judgmental, indeed __________, attitude.

hidden . . . outlandish clandestine . . . unquestionable two-faced . . . equivocal sanctimonious . . . acrid questionable . . . ostentatious

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. The river, which was normally so __________ that you could see the rocks at the bottom, had become __________ with sediment after the night"s storm.

luminous . . . torpid lucid . . . turgid limpid . . . turbid clear . . . mercurial benign . . . opaque
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Title: Two Adjectives or Adverbs in Two Blank Texts
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