Quiz 10

As soon as the last passenger had __________________, the captain ordered the ship to get under way.

In view of the many able people in public life today, I do not agree that we are suffering from a(n) ___________________ of capable leaders.

We were all impressed by your ____________________ use of unusual words and expressions that you had learned only a few hours before.

Humor should be clever and amusing but never so ____________________ that it hurts the feelings of other people.

The custom of putting erasers on pencils is one way of recognizing the fact that no one is ____________________.

I did not realize how beautiful the twins were until they fell asleep and I saw their faces in complete ____________________.

He is not merely unpleasant but actually dangerous whenever he gets into one of his ____________________ moods.

Your ____________________ joy when it was announced that I had won the scholarship meant more to me than all of the polite congratulations I received.

What good are ____________________ principles if no real attempt is made to help people by putting those principles into practice?

History tells us that many men and women regarded as failures in their own lifetimes were actually major ____________________ of humanity.