uncanny

beginning to appear or exist

to pretend or to create a false appearance

having a wild, worn, wasted look

mirth

abomination

superior ability

prosperity

oracle

well meaning, kind, caring

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: When the psychic looked at the abandoned house, she had an _____________________ sense that something bad had happened to the owner.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: Her ______________________ ways left her with no retirement savings.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: She turned out to be a ____________________ negotiator, cleverly convincing her boss to pay her extra for work she had already done.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: There’s a longstanding tradition in America of conflating sporting _________________________ and religious identity.

Complete the sentence with the best word: When the ________________ touched my hand, she gasped and told me I didn't want to know my future.

Complete the sentence with the best word: The babysitter strongly __________________ the little girl for playing with matches.

Complete the sentence with the best word: The nonsense of diving and faking and __________________ was such a part of the game during this soccer tournament.

Complete the sentence with the best word: As charming as your mutual _____________ is, could you refrain from nudging each other and giggling during class?

Complete the sentence with the best word: A sweet scent __________________ from the garden after the morning rain.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: Science fiction typically portrays aliens either as evil forces looking to conquer Earth or as ___________________ beings helping humans along the path to enlightenment.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: I have an ___________________ dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: The United States has long viewed security and __________________ in Nicaragua and its neighbors as key to regional stability and its own national security.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word:

On a visit last month, the journalist saw dozens of ____________ children working in a mine 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside Kapoeta town in South Sudan as well as children doing other hard labor throughout the city.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: This World Cup tournament will be the first to use video reviews, standard practice in many other sports around the world, but an _____________________ to some football fans who see it as killing the game's soul.

Complete the sentence with the most appropriate word: The pastor used his sermon as a __________________ of congregants who were spreading gossip.

Complete the sentence with the best word: On her Instagram story last night, the fifteen-year-old posted photos from her birthday party, including her _______ birthday cake.

imperfect; gone wrong

audacity

Complete the following sentence with the best word: Born of Thomas Alva Edison’s ingenuity and John Pierpont Morgan’s ____________________, GE built the dynamos that generated the electricity, the wires that carried it and the lightbulbs that burned it.

Complete the sentence with the best word: Now and again a full-chested _________________ rose above the wailing of women settled like sediment of sorrow on the earth.

lamentation

malevolence

Complete the following sentence with the best word: In movies, most often adaptations, affluence and luxury have been a way for Hollywood to make something ________________ or niche appeal to more mainstream audiences.

Complete the sentence with the best word: She paced about the room, as she is ___________ to do whenever she is agitated.

hard to understand

subside

Complete the sentence with the best word: When all the egwugwu sat down and the sound of the many tiny bells and rattles on their bodies had _______________, Evil Forest addressed the two groups of people facing them.