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Belligerently
Bemused
Complacently
Consoled
Contemptuously
Contorted
Derogatory
Indignation
Mauled
Mollified
Morosely
Ominously
Pantomime
Reprehensible
Sullenness
1. As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophia, calling her “garbage” in English when she acted extremely _______________ toward me.
2. Campaign advertisements should help people understand a political candidate’s qualifications and where he or she stands on _______________ issues.
3. During Prohibition, Grover Cleveland Alexander, also a pitcher, _______________ his nerves with a federally banned substance.
4. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and _______________ my Jewish brothers.
5. First, I have noticed that Western parents are extremely _______________ about their children’s self-esteem.
6. From a culturally conservative view, the most pervasive trend opposing higher education in America is _______________ bipartisan.
7. I was a little _______________ about how I was supposed to hand her present, since both her hands were holding the cloth.
8. I was handing them out when an old lady, _______________ with age, slowly hobbled into the room.
9. If we had been called when the animal first _______________ her, the woman might not be dead now.
10. Instead of _______________ refuting opposing arguments, you emphasize points of agreement and try to find common ground.
11. The desire to excel others is not _______________, when the rivalry is in rendering useful social service.
12. The girl looks at him and expresses in _________________, by the slightest gesture or shrug of the shoulders, her growing distaste for him and his way of living.
13. The objective newspaper style is dominant in this article, but the writer’s _______________ shows through.
14. The sound of the surf was _______________ loud and a black-backed gull that fluttered overhead seemed to mock him with its hoarse, croaking laugh.
15. They listened _______________ to the wind whistling through the chinks of the barn.
16. This popular _______________, coupled with racial prejudice, led to America’s first immigration restriction law, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.