English Vocab Unit 8-Sentences
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- irrefutable
- The jury felt the prosecution presented them with ______evidence of the defendant's guilt.
- juggernaut
- Any population that has experienced the _____of war firsthand will not easily forget its destructive power.
- badinage
- I enjoy the delightful________between stars like Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in 1940's movies.
- exacerbate
- Shouting and name-calling are sure to______________any quarrel.
- allege
- The newspaper tabloid _____________that the movie star and the director were having creative differences.
- portend
- In Shakespear's plays, disturbances in the heavens usually ___________disaster or trouble in human affairs.
- raze
- The town _____________the old schoolhouse to make room for a larger, more modern school complex.
- saturate
- A sponge that is ______________with water swells up but does not drip.
- arrant
- In Shakespeare's tragedy the audience sees clearly that lago is an ____________scoundrel, but Othello is blind to his treachery.
- slough
- At News Year's tiime, many people resolve to __________bad habits and start living better, healthier lives.
- paucity
- The senate campaign was marred by a _________of original ideas.
- macabre
- The continuing popularity of horror movies suggests that one way to score at the box office is to exploit the ______________.
- litany
- Whenever she talks about her childhood, she recites an interminable ___________of grievances.
- conciliate
- Because of the weakness of our army, we had to try to _________the enemy.
- lackadaisical
- The team's performance in the late innings was ____________because they were so far ahead.
- fatuous
- In order to disredit the candidate, the columnist quoted some of his more ____________, self-serving remarks.
- saturnine
- Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character of Dicken's A Christmas Carol, has a decidedly _________temperamant.
- echelon
- Although the civil servant in the lower __________of government service, he rose quickly through the ranks.
- countermand
- Today's directive clearly ______________all previous instructions on how to exit the building in case of fire.
- recant
- On the stand, the defendant ______________the guilty admissions she had made in her confession to the police.