Completing the Sentence P.85

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. When the stock market collapsed in 1929, many wealthy speculators found themselves as _______________ as proverbial church mice.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. Saying "I'm sorry" is a good way to begin to _______________ for the suffering or harm that you have done to another person.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. I know that he will say anything to save his own skin, but I feel that in this case his account of the incident is _______________ and should be accepted.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. I suppose bloodhounds may be as happy as other dogs, but they have the _______________ look of creatures who have lost their last friend.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. Although the survivors were still in a state of shock, some of them were _______________ enough to answer the questions posed by the police.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. During World War II, artificial rubber began to _______________ natural rubber in American automobile tires.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. On the steps of the Capitol, the president awarded _______________ Medals of Honor to soldiers who had recently fallen in defense of the country.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. "Someone with such a(n) _______________ grip on life doesn’t give up the ghost easily," I thought as I watched the old woman celebrate another birthday.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. The huge piles of snow that cover the roads will greatly _______________ the efforts of the rescue team to reach the stranded skiers.

Choose the word from the word bank that best completes the sentence. The wily old senator derived a certain amount of _______________ amusement from watching his enemies turn on and destroy one another.