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| unscathed | Luckily all of the passengers in the recent airline crash escaped ____. |
| ultimate (adj.) | The ___ goal in learning the comma rules is that you will use them correctly in your writing. |
| ultimate (n.) | Walking on the moon was the ___ in Neil Armstrong's life. |
| tedious | How ___ it is to copy definitions out of a dictionary! |
| tedium | Listening to the long speech by the professor was pure ___ for his students. |
| submerge | When you try to ___ an inflated air mattress completely, it is quite difficult. |
| sphere | The United States' ___ of influence in the world is quite evident! |
| spherical | The ___ lamp lit up the room quite well. |
| ruptured | His __ spleen required immediate attention. |
| rupture (v.) | Be careful not to do anything to ___ your friendship with someone. |
| rupture (n.) | The ___ between the two friends was caused by one telling the secret of the other to her parents. |
| realize | Do you __ how quickly the next few months will go by? |
| probe (v.) | The police will __ the area looking for clues to help solve the murder case. |
| probe (n.) | The dentist will use a ___ to look for cavities in my mouth. |
| probed | The ski patrol workers ___ the snow after the avalanche to look for any survivors buried beneath the snow. |
| pique (v.) | I hope the new book will ___ your interest in science fiction. |
| pique (n.) | It was the boy's ___ at being singled out by the teacher that caused him to go home so upset. |
| fathom (n.) | The divers were submerged in one ___ of water. |
| fathom (v.) | The teacher could not __ why anyone would cheat on a test |
| eerie | An __ feeling crept over me as I entered the deserted house. |
| detach | Please __ the bottom part of the letter as a reminder and send the other part to the teacher. |
| detached | The ___ look on the young child's face let the teacher know that something was wrong. |
| clamber | Toddlers ___ up stairs slowly when they first learn to walk. |
| buoyant | It is a mystery to me why some people are more__ than others in the water |
| buoyancy | The life jackets provided excellent __ for the people in the water. |
| ballast | Water is used as ___ in hot air balloons, and when it is released the balloon will go higher. |
