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You may make friends very easily, but if you continue to be so ____________, you aren't going to keep them for long.

• peevish

• upright

The _____________ of her reputation as a friend of humanity has grown brighter with the years.

• luster

• loom

It's all right for us to disagree, but let's argue about the facts only, without _______________ in name-calling.

• hankering

• indulging

Probably no _______________ in American history is so well known and beloved as Lincoln's address on the battlefield of Gettysburg.

• luster

• oration

Instead of ________________ about the misfortunes that have befallen you, why don't you go out and do something to correct the situation?

• droning

• brooding

• hankering

• lustering

It was really difficult to hear the speaker because of the steady _______________ of airplanes landing, taxiing, and taking off.

• oration

• goad

• drone

• singe

Each year the professional football season _______________ in the Super Bowl.

• broods

• indulges

• looms

• culminates

This magazine is published not for a mass circulation but for a very small audience of highly _______________ people.

• unique

• literate

• miscellaneous

• animated

I have my doubts about people who spend too much time telling the world how noble and _____________ they are.

• downright

• literate

• upright

• unique

"If you choose to play with fire," I warned them, "you run the risk of ________________ your fingers."

• singeing

• animating