| A | B |
| apparition | When the ____________ of his dead father appeared before him, Hamlet thought he was going insane. |
| aberrant | Because of his ______________ behavior, the community tended to avoid Noah. |
| irascible | People usually avoided Clara in the mornings because shew as so ________________ when she first got up. |
| rampant | There is a ______________fear of H1N1, or swine flu, across the country right now. |
| consorting | The man was thrown in jail for ________________ with known criminals. |
| pagan | The _______________ villagers were put to death for their beliefs. |
| persecute | Joy's peers were always trying to ________________ her because she did not dress and speak the way they did. |
| heresy | The young woman was imprisoned for ________________ when she said she did not believe in God. |
| pact | The friends made a _____________ to always keep the secret of what really happened that night. |
| specter | The children were frightened when they saw the ________________ of the old woman who had lived in their house. |
| afflicted | The old woman was ______________ with severe arthritis. |
| crucible | The car accident was a ______________ that tested Tom's will to survive. |
| infallible | Joan never gets lost because she has an ________________ sense of direction. |
| vehemently | When Charlie was accused of stealing a car, he ______________________ denied it because he didn't want to go to jail. |
| malignant | The ghost haunting the Smith family was a _________________ spirit - all it wanted to do was hurt them. |
| lurid | Joe liked to tell _______________ stories about what he had done over the weekend to impress his friends. |
| exacerbated | Susan ________________ the injury to her ankle when she to use crutches to help her walk. |
| inviolable | The minister believed that God's laws were __________________ and tried his hardest not to break them. |