Vocabulary Ch 19-22 Sentences

I cannot __ of any other job more perfect for me. Teaching allows me to be creative, help people and watch my students grow. It fills me with pride, every day.

• conceive
• devise
• inept
• strategy
• query

Some teenagers have lived such traumatic and difficult lives that they are more __ about the ways of the world than many adults.

• impartial
• mediocre
• obstinate
• profound
• sophisticated

The fact that the man needed money did not __ him stealing from other people.

• emerge
• impulsive
• justify
• provoke
• rational

Often, growing up in need gives people a __ desire for one of two things: either to help others or to keep everything for themselves.

• impartial
• mediocre
• obstinate
• profound
• sophisticated

Sometimes it is good for adults to remain __ and let teens work their problems out without interference.

• impartial
• mediocre
• obstinate
• profound
• sophisticated

__(ing) truly new ideas is tough. Many current books are actually new takes on old classics.

• conceive
• devise
• inept
• strategy
• query

The movie was __ at best. It wasn't terrible but it definitely wasn't the best I'd ever seen.

• impartial
• mediocre
• obstinate
• profound
• sophisticated

You rarely find verbal tests in middle school. In fact, one of my college professors was the first to require me to set up a time for verbal __ related to my work in class.

• conceive
• devise
• inept
• strategy
• query

I'm so __ at dancing that I have refused to do it for most of my life.

• conceive
• devise
• inept
• strategy
• query

The puppy __ from the bath much cleaner than when she entered it.

• emerge
• impulsive
• justify
• provoke
• rational