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| callow (adj) | young and inexperienced; immature |
| callow | The student was too ______ to know he was being fooled. |
| cynical (adj) | doubtful of the sincerity of others' motives; skeptical |
| despot (n) | a ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people |
| enunciate (v) | to pronounce clearly |
| impediment (n) | anything that gets in the way; an obstacle |
| impoverish (v) | to make poor |
| indolent (adj) | indulging in ease; avoiding exertion; lazy |
| sagacious (adj) | showing sound judgement; wise |
| secular (adj) | worldly; not connected with a church or religion |
| speculate (v) | to think about or make guesses |
| strife (n) | conflict or struggle |
| speculate (v) | engage in a risky business venture |
| venerate (v) | to show great respect for |
| voracious (adj) | ravenous; desiring and eating a large amount of food |
| waned | When interest in "sitcoms" _____, the networks switched to reality shows. |
| contemporary (adj) | existing or occuring at the same time |
| enunciate (v) | to state; to announce |
| contemporary (n) | a person living during the same time period as another |
| speculate (v) | to participate in a risky business venture |
| voracious (adj) | greatly eager |
| impoverish (v) | to take away |
| voracious | Andrew has been a _________ reader since childhood. |
| venerate | Asian cultures ________ their ancestors long after they have died. |
| strife | The ______ between the two families has existed for a few years now. |
| speculated | As we waited, we __________ about whether he'd keep his promise and show up. |
| wane (v) | to get smaller, weaker, or dimmer; to near an end |
| secular | The choir included a few _______ songs in the memorial service. |
| sagacity | I was amazed when she questioned the ________ of my plan to clinb the monatain. |
| sagacious | My grandmother's _________ adive has guided me many times over the years. |
| indolence | His failure to reach his goal certainly cannot be attributed to _________. |
| indolent | Being in the torrid heat of the tropical sun makes one feel ________. |
| impoverished | The Peace Corps is an agency of the United States government that sends volunteers to improve living standards in ____________ areas of the world. |
| impoverish | Uncontrolled gambling can __________ a person. |
| impediment | After the hurricane, fallen trees were an ___________ to traffic in our neighborhood. |
| enunciated | The president __________ his objectives for the coming year in his State of the Union address to Congress. |
| enunciate | In speech class we learn to _________ our words. |
| despotic | The Declaration of Independence of the United States asserts the government's right to overthrow a ________ ruler. |
| despot | In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, thousands fled Haiti seeking refuge from the ______ Jean Claude Duvalier. |
| cynic | Even though many clients have lied to her, Katherine, a Public Defender, has not become a _____. |
| cynical | People become _______ about diet programs when lost weight is soon regained. |
| contemporary | The rise in American power was ____________ with the decline of the British Empire. |
| speculated | She lost a great deal of money when she __________ in the stock market last year. |
