ww lesson 5 sentences
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- optimistic
- In spite of the injuries to our best players, I am _________ about our chances of winning the big game.
- lure
- The ______________ of the sea led us to take up sailing.
- challenges
- This trail _________ even the best skiers.
- blizzard
- The Chicago airport had to close for 2 days because of the __________.
- optimism
- The patients' ______________ helped them recover more quickly from their illnesses.
- optimists
- Pat and Jean are ___________ and so, of course, they believed the plane would not leave without us.
- avalanche
- Our company had an _____________ of orders after we used a television ad for our new game.
- challenge (noun)
- Living out of our backpacks for a week on the mountain was a real ____________.
- lured
- In the early nineteenth century, the hope of owning land of their won _______ many people to travel west to Ohio and Indiana.
- makeshift (adjective)
- We use the sofa as a __________ bed when we have overnight guests.
- crevice
- The ______________ had filled the soil in which a cluster of small red flowers was growing.
- vertical
- The black ________ lines in this painting are what one notices first.
- summit
- It took us three hours to climb to the ____________ of Mount Washington.
- makeshift (noun)
- They used the trailer as a __________ while their house was being rebuilt.
- thwarted
- Heavy fighting ________ the UN's attempts to deliver food.
- challenge(verb)
- Very few scientists __________ the idea that a large meteorite killed off the last of the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago.
- conquest
- The Norman __________ of England took place in 1066.
- terse
- When I said I was sure we would be rescued soon, my friend's _____ reply was, "How?"
- foolhardy
- It would be _________________ to go sailing during a gale.
- route
- Our ____________________ to Seattle takes us through Denver.
- summit
- The ______ of African heads of state will take place in Nairobi in late June.
- challenged
- I _______ my friend to a game of chess.
- previous
- Although I missed the last meeting, I attended the two _______________ ones.
- conquer
- Swimming lessons at the YMCA helped me to _______ my fear of the water.
- conquered
- Hannibal's army __________ part of Spain in 219 BC