SAT Vocabulary SET #2

Fill in the blanks with a word that correctly completes the meaning:

The railways, too, were once a public utility, but were always treated with a degree of____________ where funding was concerned.

____________ co-management regimes are typically narrow in scope as well as limited in formal powers.

There is always a____________ tone when her name is said, as if honey was rolling off the tips of their tongues.

Instrumentally, it's a _____________ blend of drums, percussion, bass, keyboards and electronics.

But if the players' loyalties are negotiable, those of their supporters are____________.

The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural________ on the Middle Euphrates in Syria.

Accordingly, SARS-associated coronavirus may not change rapidly into a_______________ infection.

I do not wish to_____________ this community, but the fact is that there are some ways they can do better!

Columnist for Vanity Fair and for brain-boggling US journal The Nation, Hitchens has a fierce reputation for intellectual and political_____________.

This is because one of the purposes of the criminal law is to______________ the feelings of the victims and their friends and relations.