| A | B |
| innovation | The latest --- to the internet is wireless connection to your cell phone. Now you can instance message your friends all over the world in a matter of seconds. |
| inordinate | Be careful allowing yourself too many credit cards. An --- number can get you in serious debt before you even realize it. |
| lofty | Having --- ideals is admirable, but living by them is harder than you know. |
| mundane | No one wants a job where he/she does the same --- activity over and over. |
| ostentatious | People who win the lottery and become suddenly rich often become ---, with two to three homes and five to seven cars. They want everyone to know they are wealthy. |
| potpourri | We invited everyone in the neighborhood to our party; there was certainly a --- of very different people. |
| precarious | Watch your grades and don't get yourself in a ---situation the last two months of school. |
| replenish | Twice a year you need to check the level of break fluid and --- it if necessary. |
| scrutinize | As a teacher of grammar, I can't help but --- writing even in the newspaper. |
| senile | Men and women in their eighties often begin to exhibit --- behavior. |