The police finally managed to catch the ...................

• calculator

• culprit

• fly

• dawdle

Most animals ...................a lot of energy searching for food.

• expand

• expend

• expond

• expander

(adj.) causing excitement or anger; leading to unrest, violence, or disorder

• persevere

• quash

• immerse

• inflammatory

We were impressed with Ella's .................. , as she described how a new shampoo made her hair grow faster

• gullible

• tastey

• testimonial

• writhe

The charges against the suspected mugger will probably not hold up in court, so the district attorney has decided to ................. them.

• quash

• pash

• push

• cash

In spite of all your talk about how hard it is to get into medical school, I intend to ..................... in my plans to become a doctor

• persuade

• persevere

• inflammatory

• expend

When the class comedian imitated my way of speaking, it was all I could do not to ............... with embarrassment.

• write

• right

• writhe

• rise

Though he was losing his hearing, Beethoven ....................... himself in his music

• immersed

• emersed

• mearah

It was plain from the way that he ................ over breakfast that he was in no hurry to visit the dentist.

• expend

• dawdled

• quash

• writhe

His sticky fingers and the crumbs around his mouth convinced us that he was the .................. in the Case of the Empty Cookie Jar

• gullible

• culprit

• persevere

• immeresed