Be considerate when you sneeze because your germs will _____ through the air, spreading your cold to others.

Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, made a(n) _____ case that the colonies were being exploited by England; so convincing was his argument that the pamphlet was considered an impetus to the Declaration of Independence.

In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet takes an immediate dislike to the wealthy Mr. Darcy because of his _____, overbearing manner and because she overhears him comment that there is no one at the ball he deems worthy of dancing with.

In Robert Frost's poem, the roads do not _____ but diverge, and the writer chooses to follow the less-traveled path.

Since the supply of oxygen aboard the spacecraft was _____, astronauts were very careful not to waste any of it.

According to Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus had his men tie him securely to the mast of his ship, which made him _____ to the Sirens, sea nymphs whose beautiful songs seduced sailors to their death.

After the painstaking process of interviewing witnesses, the police were able to _____ the identity of the bank robber.

to give or pass on as an inheritance

easily excused

a remedy for all ills, cure-all

to erase, obliterate, destroy

growing without check, running wild

When the father saw broken toys littering the floor, he called for his children in a(n) _____ tone.

After her first severe case of poison ivy, which lasted for weeks, Regina vowed to _____ the noxious plant from her garden and worked for days to destroy all traces of it.

assent is to reject as

pungent is to odor as

snob is to supercilious as

considered beforehand, deliberately planned

open to or marked by bribery or corruption