Verbs And Adjectives Or Adverbs In Two Blank Texts

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Normally __________, the author __________ herself with the audience during and after the book reading.

caustic ... vilified pedantic . . . palliated choleric . . . remonstrated bucolic ... flaunted brusque . . . ingratiated

Everyone knew the doctoral student was _________ from her successful publications, but in her thesis defense she couldn"t  _________ the claims she was making.

personable, substantiate languid, refute personable, indulge perspicacious, substantiate perspicacious, indulge

The __________ smell of the strange cheese was __________ with the perfume of various oils and herbs.

mellow . . . decimated languid . . . emaciated acrid . . . obscured erratic . . . poised terse . . . pragmatic

The little girl"s __________ story moved many to give when the organization used it to __________ funds.

terse . . . adulate abrasive . . . rebuke exhaustive . . . exculpate poignant . . . solicit anarchic . . . ameliorate

The group leader attempted to __________ the reports of each member in order to create an integrated, __________ solution which would please the whole group.

sunder . . . intransigent sunder . . . amenable amalgamate . . . intractable divide . . . intractable amalgamate . . . amenable

The __________ divisions, although resisted by some, continued to __________ the political party.

exigent . . . polarize ephemeral . . . inculcate looming . . . pervade verdant . . . coalesce quotidian ... pervade

The master thief"s partners in crime thought him a very __________ individual because he would only __________ his plan to them, keeping the details to himself.

taciturn . . . precipitate ecclectic . . . ameliorate enigmatic . . . adumbrate pithy . . . mitigate obsequious . . . articulate

Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence. When the pipe burst in the apartment building and began to flood the hallway, the plumber did a __________ job of quickly __________ it, saving the residents" rooms from being damaged.

hapless . . . inhibiting commendable . . . exacerbating indifferent . . . usurping laudable . . . occluding officious . . . breaching

Choose the word or set of words that best completes the following sentence. The __________ smell coming from her locker and the fruit flies swarming around it made Becky __________ her decision to leave the old bagged lunches piled up behind her textbooks over the previous weekend.

fetid . . . rue innocuous . . . malinger salutary . . . obviate lugubrious . . . repudiate noisome . . . expiate

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted into the sentence, best completes the sentence. His __________ approach to relationships often __________ him from seeing the good in people.

arcane . . . precipitate generous . . . equivocated cynical . . . precluded expedient . . . sanctioned obsolete . . . alleviated
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Title: Verbs And Adjectives Or Adverbs In Two Blank Texts
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