My political rival tried to (a)   me into arguing with him; but I remained strong and fought my urge to fight back.

If you rearrange the letters of "silent," you can form a different word, "listen." This would be an example of an (a)   .

When I pressed my date to agree to go to the dance with me, he remained vague and (a)   ; he would not give me a straight or clear answer.

His (a)   was shocking, in part, because he couldn't even defend this claim with basic facts.

Mr. Jones' (a)   efforts to save the school were valiant; in the end, though, even his good intentions weren't enough to stop the board from deciding it was time to demolish the building.

On a vocabulary quiz, your context clues in context-rich sentences should be (a)   so that the reader of the sentences can clearly understand what you are trying to say and what word you are trying to define.

Often, when discussing politics, I tend to (a)   or suddenly explode in a fit of passion; it's just that socialism stinks and I will always ardently defend capitalism.

The puck sailed through the air and hit Jenny in her rather large and prominent (a)   ; later, we couldn't get her nose to stop bleeding from its injury.

I was left stunned by her (a)   refusal; she had no reason to turn down my offer for a job.

I could only (a)   about what had happened. Since no actual evidence existed, we were all left to guess.