vocab

Despite our _____efforts, aided by outside proofreaders, typos still crop up from time to time.

• unflagging

• stoical

• crony

• abut

Johnny met all these horrible comments with a ______calm.

• unflagging

• stoical

• cryptic

• perceptible

He did his latest ________in December, helping volunteers repackage and distribute food in a mixed-income suburb near the Indiana border.

• stint

• proclaim

• plummet

• avail

In addition, T-cells can create microphages and _______cells that scour the body looking for foreign substances in need of a smackdown.

• scavenger

• nullify

• fervent

• crony

What really seemed to ______with her was his statement that he was ashamed of their friendship because of where she was from.

• rankle

• fervent

• infiltrate

• gaunt

But they warned that temperatures were set to _____, with snow falling on higher ground.

• proxy

• infiltrate

• plummet

• avail

It's hypocritical in the sense that these people all lie yet ________themselves virtuous and honest, yes.

• divergent

• proclaim

• attire

• plummet

In theory it is possible for competent adults to appoint a ________to act on their behalf by granting them a power of attorney.

• proxy

• abut

• avail

• proclaim

I strained my ears and was about to give up when the faint sound of a rumbling engine became ________.

• divergent

• fervent

• perceptible

• scavenger

The traumatic loss of its antennae should deal a devastating blow to the creature's mental equilibrium and may _______its telepathic abilities.

• divergent

• cryptic

• nullify

• abut