I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

The delightful aroma of food cooking made my mouth water. I followed my nose to the kitchen.

The parking lot was so congested, it took half an hour to get out.

Pete was envious of his brother's new bicycle. It wasn't fair that his brother had a new bike and he didn't.

Marcia is a novice soccer player. It is her first day of practice.

The conspicuous man wore a blonde wig and large sunglasses. We watched him as he went into Walmart.

The lost campers sweltered in the heat of the desert sun.

The most TRAGIC part of the movie was the war, which caused many people to lose their homes.

Greg begged his parents to PERMIT him to watch more television, but they said he had to finish his homework.

Again they searched meticulously, but no keys. Where could they be? They've looked EVERYWHERE! If you did something meticulously, you would be-

Tanya loved her dad, but she wondered why she was so organized when he was so haphazard. A person who is haphazard is-

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

In late 2006, apiarists in the U.S. began reporting that their honey bees were dying. Some of these beekeepers lost 90 percent of their hives. What is the best definition of apiarists?

Based on the context clues in the sentence below, ecstatic means:

They were ecstatic at the birth of their baby. They couldn't stop smiling for days.