You shall be severely ______ for your flagrant indiscretions. (Choose two answers!!!)

My enemies always try to __________ my character because they are jealous.

Suzie engages in a little self-___________ sometimes to keep herself honest. She is good at pointing out her own faults and making jokes at her own expense.

Castigate and chastize both come from the ______ word "castigare" and both mean to _________.

Johnny _______ his son so harshly about drinking and driving that he started crying and said he was sorry and would never do it again. (Choose three answers!!!)

One of the oldest records of someone's excuse for not being able to go to work is from Ancient Egypt. There is a record of one guy being "stung by a scorpion." The scorpion's venom is extremely _______, so you can see why he couldn't make it that day.

The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets was especially ________, and this conflict drives the plot of Romeo and Juliet.

Lady Macbeth planted in her husband's mind the ___________ scheme of killing King Duncan in order that he might the crown of Scotland seize.

The dark clouds hanging on the horizon looked very ______.

The boy was so very _____ and hateful about everything that one one must wonder who hurt him.

The mafia's _________ schemes were foiled by the Italian police force. The carabiniere easily found all the members of the Cosa Nostra who were hiding out in the village outside Naples.

__________ intent is a legal term that dictates the perpetrator acted with an explicit intent to do harm.

Students who won't lock in and do their work and want to talk all the time are the _________ of every teacher's existence.

The latest military coup in Burkina Faso has been extremely ________ to the country's economy, for the government instability has scared off foreign investments in the mining and extraction sectors.

castigate : chastise

upbraid : extol

irrefutable : impugned

approving : deprecating

deprecate : deprecation

The noun form of the verb deprecate is___________.

The noun form of odious is ___________. (Pick two answers!!!)

The noun form of the adjective virulent is __________.

If you are rancorous, you are filled with __________.

If you want to change pernicious to an adverb, you add ______.