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| abate | As my parents yelled at me, I waited patiently for their rage to _____. |
| adulation | The famous author received many letters of _____ from her numerous fans. |
| anathema | Though school may seem like an _____ to my brother, it’s very enjoyable to me. |
| astute | My friend made the _____ observation that my little brother had finally grown taller than me. |
| avarice | She made her _____ clear when she began demanding my lunch money. |
| culpable | I caught her red-handed stealing the money, and she had the most _____ expression on her face. |
| dilatory | When it comes to homework I am very _____, so I’m always quite proud when I come to school with all of it done. |
| egregious | She made the most _____ of miscalculations when she paid me back $100 less than what she owed me. |
| equivocating | When I fail to prepare for a presentation, I tend to spend a lot of time _____ in front of the audience. |
| evanescent | As we watched the sunset, our feeling of joy was _____. |
| irresolute | She was _____ when it came to what gift would best suit her mother for Christmas. |
| nebulous | The smoke rose up in a _____ mass before diluting high up in the sky. |
| novice | When it came to playing the tuba, the young girl was nothing more than a _____. |
| penury | It seemed his _____ was inescapable in that he had never owned a house in his life. |
| pretentious | It always seems sort of _____ when authors begin their novels use a quote from another work to precede their own writing. |
| recapitulate | The witness had to _____ what he’d seen in court in order to testify. |
| resuscitate | They pulled him out of the water and found that he wasn’t breathing, so they used CPR to _____ him. |
| slovenly | The hobo had adopted some blatantly _____ habits. |
| supposition | It was my _____ that he had written that essay on his own, but it turns out he had some help. |
| torpid | After such a boring movie, there wasn’t a single person who wasn’t feeling _____ as they left the theater. |
