Insert the comma(s): After he washed the car it rained.

Insert the comma(s): I love to drink iced coffees during the winter.

Insert the comma(s): My dog sneaks treats from the pantry so I have to hide the treats on the top shelf.

Insert the comma(s): Although I am allergic to dairy I love ice cream and I eat it regularly.

Define the underlined word: After my brother spilled spaghetti sauce on my favorite sweater, he tried to mollify me by saying that the color of the sauce matched the sweater.

Define the underlined word: I tried to be pragmatic about my choice in shoes by wearing sneakers instead of flats on the hike.

Define the underlined word: My car may be breaking as it makes intermittent jolts when I accelerate too quickly or too slowly.

Define the underlined word: My bookshelf is an amalgam of souvenirs collected from places that I have traveled.

Define the underlined word: My boyfriend's ambivalent responses stressed me out: did he want to go with me to the movies or not? I wished that he would just say what he means.

Define the underlined word: After she accidentally collided into the glass patio door, my dog hid behind my legs crestfallen.

Define the underlined word: Although many African countries have been left impoverished by oversea mining leaders, many have also become wealthy and self-sustaining.

Define the underlined word: Unfortunately, my house had a latent secret; every spring a family of skunks bedded underneath the porch stairwell causing the whole area to reek of skunk odor.

Define the underlined word: Some of the paintings in the Murder Museum were painted with lurid details to depict the vivid and terrifying world of night terrors.

Define the underlined word: The town had been eviscerated by the tornado; there wasn't an unharmed building in sight.