| A | B |
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| (adj., part.) associated, connected | affiliated |
| (v.) to find out | Ascertain |
| (n.) an accomplishment; the act of achieving | Attainment |
| (v.) to give or pass on as an inheritance | Bequeath |
| (adj.) forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point | Cogent |
| (v.) to move toward one point, approach nearer together | Converge |
| (v.) to scatter, spread far and wide | Disperse |
| (v.) to regard highly | Esteem |
| (n.) a highly favorable opinion or judgment | Esteem |
| (v.) to erase, obliterate, destroy | Expunge |
| (adj.) having limits; lasting for a limited time | Finite |
| (adj.) not able to be wounded or hurt; shielded against attack | Invulnerable |
| (adj.) spiteful, showing ill will | Malevolent |
| (adj.) cool and confident, unconcerned | Nonchalant |
| (adj.) knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding | Omniscient |
| (n.) a remedy for all ills, cure-all; an answer to all problems | Panacea |
| (adj.) exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled | Scrupulous |
| (v.) to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding | Skulk |
| (adj.) proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority | Supercilious |
| (adj.) strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation | Uncanny |
| (adj.) easily excused; pardonable | Venial |
| her ability to guess what I am thinking about at any given time is nothing shor of _______. | Uncanny |
| So long as we remained indoors, we were ____________ to the Arctic blasts that swept down on our snowbound cabin. | Invulnerable |
| The more knowledge and wisdom people acquire, the more keenly they become aware that no one is __________. | Omniscient |
| Because our natural resources are ______ and by no means inexhaustible, we must learn to conserve them. | Finite |
| We refer to antibiotics as "wonder drugs," but we must realize that they are not _______ for all the physical ailments of mankind. | Panacea |
| Our representative offered one simple but _______ argument against the proposal--it would raise the cost of living | Cogent |
| Isn't it remarkable how quickly a throng of sunbathers will pick up their belongings and ________ when a few drops of rain fall? | Disperse |
| Is there anyone in the world as __________ as a senior who attends a mere sophomore class dance? | Nonchalant |
| Her election to Congress was the __________ of a lifelong ambition. | Attainment |
| As we stood on the railway tracks looking off into the distance, the rails seemed to ________ and meet at some far-off point. | Converge |
| Only by paying __________ attention to innumerable details were we able to piece toghether the cause of the accident. | Scrupulous |
| The screening committee investigated not only the candidate himself but also the organizations with which he was __________. | Affiliated |
| Before making our final plans, we should _________ exactly how much money we will have for expenses. | Ascertain |
| Though I wanted to "let bygones be bygones," I found that I could not wholly _______ the bitter memory of their behavior from my mind. | Expunge |
| When I was the pain he caused others and the pleasure he took in doing so, I realized he was truly __________ person. | Malevolent |
| If only parents could ________ their hard-won practical wisdom and experience to their children! | Bequeath |
| In a situation that would have left me all but helpless with embarrassment, he remained cool and ____________. | Supercilious |
| I knew the dean would accept my apology when she characterized my behavior as thoughtless but ______. | Venial |
| When the candidate admitted openly that he had been mistaken in some of his policies, we ________ him more highly than ever. | Esteemed |
| In the opening scene of the horror film a shadowy figure dressed in _______ through the graveyard in the moonlight. | Skulked |
