5th Period Vocabulary Unit 1

The purpose of military _________ remains the same whether calvary or helicopters are used: to learn as much as possible about the enemy.

In any crisis, the longer a person ______, the greater the danger is likely to become.

Even the most severe critics showered ________ on the young writer for the remarkable narrative power of her first novel.

some of the episodes in the series were wonderfully fresh and original; others were just plain _______.

I don't object to the inclusion of anecdotes in a serious lecture, but the should at the very least be _____ to the subject.

She received housing vouchers and food stamps as a result of the government's __________.

Despite the _____ and nit-picking of a few petty minds, I feel we have substantially improved our local school system of late.

As a result of recent research, earlier theories about the origin of the universe are no longer _______.

An antonym for garrulous:

A synonym for usurp: