Knowing a foreign language is a valuable _______ for a traveler.

It was a long, difficult hike over an ________ section of the park.

The athletes ______ each other to work harder at their sport.

The weather man's forecast for the day was _________ when he was reporting from the middle of the snowstorm.

Even though the text never said that Brian's parents were divorced, I could make the __________ from the text evidence and figure it out.

The author's ________, or purpose, of including sentence fragments was to help the reader understand how Brian was feeling.

A small part of a longer text is an _____________.

Brian repeated "They would come" several times to ________ himself that everything would be okay.

Brian __________ thought about how difficult his family situation at home was, but then quickly went back to thinking about is current situation.