Although the hero and the heroine were parted by circumstance, I knew that they were ____ to meet again before the last commercial.

Talking hard to talk about uncomfortable topics does not ______ him.

There is a vast difference between democracy, under which everyone has duties and privileges, and ____, under which no one has.

The team of accountants spent hours trying to locate and then to _____ the error I had so carelessly made.

Like farmers separating the wheat from the chaff, the members of a jury must _____ the truth from the evidence presented to them.

Spring, with its ever-renewing promise of life, is for me the most ____ of seasons.

I feared that this latest misfortune would drive him over the _____ and into a depression from which he would not recover.

Anyone who takes the writings of other people and presents them as his or her own is guilty of literary _____.

Far from being useless, mathematics will give you _____ to many fields of scientific study.

The voters may seem to be easily deceived, but in the long run they cannot be _____ by self-serving politicians.

His narrow education gave him a ______ view of cultures different from his own.

His speech and manners were so _____ and stiff that he cut a somewhat ridiculous figure at our informal little get-together.

How can you accuse me of _____ with all your brilliant ideas when you have never had an original thought in your life!

Despite the threats made against his life, the _____ district attorney was able to obtain a conviction of the corrupt official.

We should begin studying foreign languages at an early age because it is during those years than our minds are most _____ and receptive.

For most retired athletes, the comeback trail is an _____ one, and few ever get to the end of it.

Instead of recognizing that he caused his own failure, he continues to _____ all the people who were "unfair" to him.

A great playwright's characters always seem to come alive; those of a third-rate hack stubbornly remain _____.

When her eyes suddenly blazed with such fury, I felt that the heat of her glance would all but ____ me.