| A | B |
| advocate | All of us need a significant other in our lives who will be an --- for us. |
| aesthetic | We've added poster strips, writing boards, and pictures to our walls in order to improve the ---(s) of Byrnes High School. |
| blighted | The drought has caused many crops to be --- this year. |
| deploy | Immediately after 9/11 troops were ---(ed) to Afghanistan. |
| depravity | As Americans we can not understand the --- that drives men to kill helpless women and children. |
| emaciated | The prisoners of war were --- from years of poor diets and bad living conditions. |
| eminent | Most of us will live our whole lives and not meet an --- personality. |
| flagrant | The thief walked right through the front door. Such --- behavior indicates that he knew he wouldn't be caught. |
| guile | Con men use --- to trick us into believing that we can get something for nothing. |
| inane | The young girl's conversation was ---; she babbled on and on about nothing. |