| A | B |
| archipelago | The Malay _______ includes the islands of Java |
| forage | Bears_______ for their food. |
| intrepid | Demonstrating both bravery and endurance |
| steppes | Yaks graze on the ______ of Mongolia. |
| marred | Graffiti _____ the beauty of the cliff drawings. |
| gregarious | The __________ woman disliked being alone. |
| terrain | The rocky ______ made farming difficult. |
| ensnare | Spiders use webbing to _______ their prey. |
| herbivores | Many dinosaurs were plant eating ________ . |
| thicket | The attorneys and CPAs helped her negotiate the _______ of regulations. |
| thicket | The rabbits were safe in the dense ______ . |
| domesticated | Humans __________ dogs from wolves in Africa centuries ago. |
| aloof | He didn't win many friends with his socially _____ and distant manner. |
| matriarch | Her sharp wit and gregarious nature helped the _________ keep her position as a leader in the family. |
| embarked | They ________ on their new mission |
| besmirched | His reputation was __________ by her slanderous remarks. |
| refugees | The frightened _______ left their war-torn country to escape persecution. |
| shunned | She was _______ by the women in her church after the scandal. |
| feral | No matter how cute they are as babies |
| exodus | There was a mass ________ of clients after the lousy quarterly reports were released. |
| defects | The quality department checks every product for __________ before the cases are shipped. |
| reclusive | The __________ scientist preferred his private lab to the crowded university workroom. |
| throngs | The festival brought ______ of people to the mountain village. |
| plundered | The logging company __________ the land |
| omnivorous | She was an ______________ reader |
| omnivores | Most Americans are _________ |