Stars and Stripes 1g

Early in the morning, Andie walked barefoot on the ____ grass and got her feet wet.

• dewy

• heap

• damp

• shuffle

I could tell she was nervous when I shook her ____ hands.

• clammy

• dewy

• damp

• strech

Maria must just have gotten out of the shower because her hair was still ______.

• damp

• clammy

• irked

• ardent

The professor's forty-year ______ at the university will come to an end this year.

• tenure

• slander

• erosion

• ordeal

Profiecient speakers of English can speak for long ______ without hesitations or errors.

• stretches

• glides

• oblivions

• deputies

I felt _______ to help the cleaners a bit with the mess because it had been my party and the house was almost trashed.

• obliged

• imposed

• obliviated

• obscuritied

Nobody in our family likes my brother's wife and despite knowing this he keeps ______ her on us at every family gathering. On top of that, to make matters worse, she keeps making rude comments to everyone about everything. I sincerelly hate her guts.

• imposing

• obliging

• corroding

• denouncing

I keep meaning to tidy up my room but my clothes are still a small ____ on the floor.

• heap

• hill

• stretch

• glide

After weeks of putting it off, I managed to sort of the _____ of books and old things in the attic.

• jumble

• plague

• jungle

• infection

Well-_________ adults don't just start screaming and throwing temper tantrums over small things that don't go their way.

• adjusted

• obliged

• residual

• laborious