"The French ___________ concluded that the shah’s days on the throne were numbered anyway, according to diplomats and press reports."

"Clearly the focus is to do the best for the athlete,” Testa said as Froome ___________ and patiently signed autographs and posed for photos, including one with a baby, near the hotel entrance."

"That refined gentleman over there with the excellent manners, the elegant suit, and the beautiful home on Park Avenue? He’s a ______________, a member of the upper classes."

"If you insult someone or dismiss them in a hateful way, you're being ____________. The difference between being hateful and _____________ is subtle. It involves disdain."

"Someone _________ seems to be beyond correcting, improving, or changing. When you talk about an ___________ bully, you're saying they're always going to push other people around."

"The literal meaning of this word's Latin root is "very pleased," but even though _________ people may seem pleased with themselves, we are rarely pleased with them. They are unconcerned by things that should concern them, and they may neglect their duties."

"In a political campaign, a _______ helps with speeches and ads. In football, a _______ draws up plays. In war, a ______ figures out specific ways of carrying out the plans of the generals. A ________ knows how to get things done."

"Anything — a person or object or idea — can be ________ if it's done by force upon an unwilling party."

"She was famously jealous and violent, and Hawaiians tried to ________ her with offerings of pork, fish, liquor."

"We can break _______ down into two Latin roots: in, which means 'not,' and animatus, which translates to “alive.” So _________ means simply, 'not alive.' That include things that are recently dead, things that were never alive to begin with, and things that simply look dead."

"While his appearance was ____________ — especially after his prior critiques of the Grammys — his speech was anything but."

"_________, as a noun or as an adjective, implies recklessly wasting your money on extravagant luxury. __________ behavior is a lot of fun, but you'll regret it later — when you get your charge card bill."

"Reach for the adjective ________ when you want a flashy way to say — well, 'flashy' or 'showy.'"

"If you are _______, you are smooth and diplomatic. You'd probably make a good politician."

"Say you're playing a role-playing game and you end up in one of the other player's dungeons. You could try begging her for _________ — compassion shown by people in power towards people who rebel or break the law."

"Frankenstein is among the most __________ adapted and interpreted stories in English-language literature."

"With typical ______________ to the armed forces, the Senate overwhelming voted to grant the waiver."

"If something really annoying is going on, like one neighbor is jack-hammering his driveway and another has a dog that's barking while you're trying to sleep because you were up all night studying and you really really need a nap, but you stay calm and don’t get upset, you are ___________."

"Guzman the Good flung his ________ to the enemy to kill his own son."

"___________ is an old-fashioned word for brave behavior in a man, especially on the battlefield."

"A ____________ person is sullen, gloomy, sad, glum, and depressed — not a happy camper."