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You have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______ it.

You have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______ it. abdicate felicitous renowned rectify callous. Ted Williams was a homeless man, until a journalist discovered his ______ voice; he was quickly given voiceover work, and enjoyed 15 minutes of fame. abdicate mellifluous

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You have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______ it.

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  1. You have made a terrible mistake, and we expect that you will ______ it. • abdicate • felicitous • renowned • rectify • callous

  2. Ted Williams was a homeless man, until a journalist discovered his ______ voice; he was quickly given voiceover work, and enjoyed 15 minutes of fame. • abdicate • mellifluous • pugnacious • arbitrary • cogent

  3. An overwhelming ______ kept Aaron on the couch. When his friends suggested they go play basketball, he shrugged. • obtuse • truculent • placid • plausible • apathy

  4. The ______ pug lunged at the neighbor’s Great Pyrenees, a dog ten times her size. • itinerant • prosaic • fallow • pugnacious • austere

  5. Pen & Teller, a pair of famous Vegas magicians, perform sleight of hand through a combination of manual ______ and distracting chitchat, or “patter.” • pugnacious • obtuse • renowned • dexterity • cogent

  6. After releasing the smash hit of 2012, the pop star was faced with the daunting task of _______ her success. • replicate • venal • rectify • infamous • apathy

  7. He had the ______ living conditions common to poor college students: a threadbare couch, an empty fridge, and bare walls. • cultivate • austere • dexterity • lucid • disseminate

  8. Considering the flimsy alibi and the many eyewitness testimonies, the man’s ______ was obvious. • recapitulate • disseminate • culminate • reticent • culpability

  9. It is hard to stay mad at my niece, because she follows up any misbehavior with immediate ______. Her parents know when the tears are fake, but I can’t tell. • reiterate • lucid • dexterity • penitence • venal

  10. A king should be many things: _______ to his poor subjects, honorable to fellow heads of state, and prescient in predicting future trouble. Our king was not, and so it was a great relief when he ______ and allowed a new monarch to take the throne. • itinerant • pugnacious • belligerent • obsequious • munificent

  11. I try and ______ my attention span by avoiding television, reading books, and forcing myself to do an extra five minutes of work when I feel myself becoming distracted. • chimerical • arbitrary • cultivate • remunerate • obtuse

  12. The terminal was _____ of travellers, so we got to our gate without any problems. • lucid • callous • devoid • itinerant • obsequious

  13. The ______ pace exhausted the starters, so the bench players came into the game early. • penitence • commemorate • austere • apathy • frenetic

  14. Some people think the moon landing was faked. Do you find that _____? • itinerant • dexterity • cultivate • pastoral • plausible

  15. To cross the border into Zimbabwe, we were forced to pay the _____ border guard 100 dollars a piece. • munificent • culpability • disseminate • replicate • venal

  16. _____ points, counsellor. The jury is advised to consider those during their deliberations. • cogent • perfunctory • commemorate • amiable • reiterate

  17. I was sent to the grocery store to pick up strawberries -- I think. His handwriting is too ______ to be sure. • abdicate • commemorate • reticent • illegible • temperate

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