nervous : insecure :: gullibility : ______________

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credulity

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resignation

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compensation

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fate

I once was a person given to _______________.  I would believe anything.    

Mrs. Dekker gave me the gold coin as __________________ for weeding her garden.  

With a _____________ I tried to walk on my broken leg, but the pain was too much.  

With a sigh of _______________, I felt for the gold coin in my pocket.  

They didn't believe that making a wish could control the _______________ of their family

Readers may have been surprised to know that Herbert faced such ____________ at his job.  

Mr. and Mrs. White accepted the loss of Herbert with ____________ and sorrow.  

The money Herbert's job provided as ______________ for the Whites' loss could never replace their sadness.

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grimace  

I felt that surely, the coin was directing ____________ to shine on me.  

I didn't realize that my life was in immediate ___________ because a car was zooming toward me at a high rate of speed.  

giggle : sob :: smile : __________

abrupt : sudden :: inevitability : ______________

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peril

At first, the magical monkey's paw strained the _____________ of the Whites.