The king was a __________, a tyrannical megalomaniac, a power-hungry opportunist, who wrung all he could out of his forlorn subjects--in the form of taxes, harsh laws, overcriminalization, convictions for the least of offenses.

I began to feel rather _____________ at the prospect of traveling alone through remote, non-English speaking areas.

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in __________, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

________________ compounds are those that contain the element iron.

Great cruelty and ________ were displayed in the suppression of the Polish rebellion in 1863, and some accounts represent Russia as tyrannical at best inasmuch as Polish freedoms were severely curtailed.

Ibsen succeeded in __________ the three plays into one to produce a fresh new work.

Farmers have to __________ cotton before it can be picked.

Once you realize what a __________ of choices you have, decisions can become much harder.

If the school follows through with changing the dress code to ban all shorts, I'm positive the students will all ______________ with dissatisfaction in August when it is 100 degrees outside.

In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, _________ old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result.

The group's dynamic failed to __________, they accomplished little, and their work was insipid drivel.

Our ___________ will no doubt go on to explore space, discover new technology only hitherto dreamt of, and colonize distant planets.

Johan is a true ___________. He picks up new languages very easily. He can speak English, Afrikaans, a little Xhosa, some Portuguese, and he is learning German on his own. He also studied Latin in high school and Greek in college.

Her grandmother's wedding ring was decorated with intricate gold _________.

____________ , such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine, are reactive nonmetallic elements that form strongly acidic compounds with hydrogen from which simple salts can be made.

He was a profligate ____________, only seeking pleasure, the next adventure, never worrying about work or school, and to no one's surprise, he failed all his classes the first semester of college.

There are _________ problems in the quest to terraform Mars--for one, the planet has no magnetic field like the Earth, and thus any inhabitants would be subject to the brunt of the Sun's radiation.

The bear's __________ was warm and cozy, and he slept all through the worst of the winter's weather.

The archaeologists ____________ the body of Richard III, who was king of England until 1483, underneath a present-day parking lot in Leeds.

After the president was impeached for obvious violations of the law, he felt the full __________ of the situation deep within himself.