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| Agnes is only five feet tall, but her boyfriend is six-foot-four. They make a(n) _ -looking couple. | incongruous |
| Sharon and Ben have _(e)d a Jewish family tradition they hadn't observed for years: lighting candles on the Sabbath. | reinstate |
| Bad handwriting isn't a serious _ in an age of computers. | liability |
| Here, squirrels are red or gray, but I used to live in a state where black squirrles were _. | indigenous |
| Although our city has never been struck by an earthquake, it has emergency plans for just such a _. | contingency |
| Two students were blamed for starting the fire in the physics lab, but they were _(e)d when it was found that the cause was faulty electrical equipment. | exonerate |
| Flies are amazingly_. Within a five-month breeding period, one female can produce thousands of offspring. | prolific |
| Because a submarine is able to hide underwater, it can be very useful in _ operations. | clandestine |
| "Your writing is too wordy," the teacher had written on my paper. "Eliminate all those _ words and phrases." | superfluous |
| Nancy is so _ that when I told her my car had been stolen, her only reaction was, "Does this mean you can't drive me to work tomorrow?" | egocentric |
