| A | B |
| introspective | An --- look into ourselves is important if we are to know what we want in life. |
| nurture | Good parents --- their children with love and time and don't push them off on gradparents to rear. |
| prodigious | Tall men can carry --- weight without looking obese. |
| profane | It would be considered --- to curse or to tell an ugly joke at church. |
| profusion | Hopefully, you will receive a --- of gifts for graduation. |
| quell | US military presence is often used to --- distrubances in other parts of the world. |
| reputed | Both the democratic and republican ---efforts to sway the election in Florida almost threw the presidential election into the congress. |
| resigned | The dying man --- himself to the inevitable by refusing any more treatments. |
| spontaneous | Following the speaker's concluding statements there was a --- standing ovation. |
| trite | "Hi, how're doing?" is a --- way to begin a letter. |