Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: agonize, bother, brood, fume, fuss, grieve.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: agitated, anxious, concerned, confused, crazy, distressed, frantic, hysterical, mad, tormented.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: crime, error, fault, infraction, infringement, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, sin, wrongdoing.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: castigation, chastening, criticism, discipline, penalty, rebuke, reprimand, reproof.

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"Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along the river path, he remembered that moment of _____, stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above."

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"I guess I just got _____, watching them."

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"The rules say that if there's a third _____, he simply has to be released."

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"They would simply _____ and argue about it themselves for years, until the citizens forgot that it had ever gone to them for study."

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"Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for _____ because of her insensitive chatter."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: frame of mind, habit, inclination, mood, personality, predisposition, temper, tendency, tone.

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"He's a sweet little male with a lovely _____. But he isn't growing as fast as he should, and he doesn't sleep soundly."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: escalation, upsurge, ascension, building, climb, intensification, rise.

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"They applauded at the final Assignment; but the applause was __(this blank is the answer for a different question)__, no longer a(n) _____ of united enthusiasm."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: benevolent, favorable, friendly, gentle, mild.

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"The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her _____ statement, seemed to breathe more easily."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: gradual, fragmentary, intermittent, partial, patchy, spotty.

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"They applauded at the final Assignment; but the applause was _____, no longer a(n) _(this blank is the answer for a different question)_ of united enthusiasm."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: consistent, solid, unified, united, universal, agreed, as one, collective.

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"Therefore the selection must be sound. It must be a(n) _____ choice of the Committee. They can have on doubts, however fleeting."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: brandish, employ, handle, operate.

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"The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was _____."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: predilection, propensity, bent, disposition, drift, leaning, proclivity, proneness, tendency.

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"She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific _____, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: breezy, buoyant, carefree, impish, jolly, perky, playful.

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"Earlier that day, dressing in his own dwelling, he had practiced the kind of _____, self-assured walk that he hoped he could make to the stage when his turn came."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: airiness, ethereality, floatability, levity, weightlessness.

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"I can't swim very well. My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right ___ or something."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: exactly, precisely, flawlessly, scrupulously, veraciously.

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"The community was so _____ ordered, the choices so carefully made."

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: cranky, impatient, irritable, testy, whiny.

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"Most of the time they just play games and amuse themselves while they're waiting. I think I'd like that," Lily said _____.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: monotone, bumbling, humming, speaking boringly.

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He laughed silently to himself, picturing his sister _____ on in the self-important voice that all the Speakers seemed to develop.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: shirt, coat, jacket, robe, blouse.

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Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade as his own _____.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: recorded, catalogued, listed.

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All of his volunteer hours would be carefully _____ at the Hall of Open Records.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: cackled, chuckled, giggled, snickered.

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"We'll have to suggest that to the committee. Maybe they'd study it," Jonas said slyly, and Larissa _____ with laughter.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: apparent, distinct, evident, noticeable, visible, clear.

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But the most _____ difference was the books.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: bunch, crush, flock, gathering, horde, mass, mob, crowd.

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Holding the folder she had give him, he made his way through the _____, looking for his family unit and for Asher.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: elemental, essential, indispensable, fundamental.

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It was a(n) _____ part of the learning of precise speech.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: desired, needed, appealed, asked, demanded, hunted, petitioned, solicited, sought, wished.

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When he had crushed his finger in the door, he had quickly, gasping into the speaker, notified his mother; she had hastily _____ relief-of-pain medication, which had promptly been delivered to his dwelling.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: cursory, ephemeral, fading, momentary, short-lived, sudden, transitory, passing, short.

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Therefore the selection must be sound. It must be a unanimous choice of the Committee. They can have no doubts, however _____.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: cascade, deluge, downpour, flood, outburst, spate, stream, tide.

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He could see a bright, whirling _____ of crystals in the air around him, and he could see them gather on the backs of his hands, like cold fur.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: movement, transfer, transportation, carrying.

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And hills, too...they made _____ of goods unwieldy. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: annoying, bothersome, disconcerting, distressing, disturbing, perplexing, troubling, unsettling, vexing, worrying.

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Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a(n) _____ scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn't understand.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: poked, jabbed, nudged, spurred, shoved, prompted.

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She _____ Lily to the front door, and Jonas followed.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: imposed, intruded, offended, transgressed.

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But each such error reflected negatively on his parents/ guidance and _____ on the community's sense of order and success.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: drift, incline, lean, tend, approach.

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Jonas watched the new Nines _____ toward their waiting bicycles, each one admiring his or her nametag.

Identify the vocabulary word with the following synonyms: considerately, fondly, kindly, tolerantly.

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But once a year, they all smiled _____ at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families.