Lord of the Flies List One

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"Arman Gabaee, 61, admitted giving a county official dozens of cash payoffs during ​​ (a)   meetings in cars, restaurants and men’s rooms while reaping lucrative real-estate leases in return."

—Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022

• furtive
• efflorescence
• specious
• decorous
• inscrutable
• intimidating
• mortifying
• contemptuous

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Apologies that ​ (a)   regret, promise corrective action and are delivered early, with intensity and genuine sympathy can make amends for many things.

From Phys.Org

• proffer
• intimidate
• mortify
• decorous
• interpose
• enormity
• contemptuous

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This study of Mars is part of the ​ ​ (a)   of the young field of astrobiology, which includes the search for potentially habitable worlds and the first example of extraterrestrial life.

—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022

• efflorescence
• furtiveness
• mortification
• decorum
• interpose
• enormity
• contemptuous
• enmity
• intimidation

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He had made some ​​ (a)   excuse about failing to recognize her, and in the end they had had coffee together.

Harcourt, Palma

A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE, 2003

• specious
• furtive
• mortifying
• decorous
• inscrutable
• enormous
• contemptuous
• enmity
• intimidating
• efflorescent

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The result was a long and bitter ​ (a)   between the two peoples, each of whom viewed the other with suspicion and loathing.

Arthur Herman

THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World

(2002)

• enmity
• efflorescence
• mortification
• decorum
• inscrutability
• enormity
• contemptuousness
• intimidation

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Do not mistake his ​ (a)   behaviour for softness.

​ (b)  

(2018)

• decorous
• The Guardian
• efflorescence
• mortification
• inscrutability
• enormity
• contemptuousness
• intimidation
• enmity

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With the vegan protester just a few feet from her husband, Jill Biden clutched her husband's right hand and ​ (a)   her body between him and the woman lunging at him.—Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020

The Guardian

(2018)

• interposed
• efflorescenced
• mortified
• enormity
• contemptuoused
• intimidated
• enmity
• inscrutabled
• proffered

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But on the other end, too much mystery can render a poem ​ (a)   .

From NPR

• inscrutable
• efflorescent
• mortifying
• enormity
• contemptuous
• intimidating
• decorous
• furtive
• specious

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He was also accused of trying to ​ (a)   a city human resources assistant by grabbing her by the neck.

—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023

• intimidate
• efflorescent
• mortify
• enormity
• contemptuous
• interpose
• decorous
• furtive
• enmity
• proffer

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If she knew I'd heard her crying she might well have been ​ (a)   .

Isabel Wolff

RESCUING ROSE (2002)

• mortified
• efflorescent
• proffered
• enormity
• contemptuous
• specious
• decorous
• furtive
• enmity
• inscrutable