You shall be severely ______ for your flagrant indiscretions.

My enemies constantly harry and _______ me, yet I stand as a bulwark against their onslaughts. They are weak. I am strong. I am as strong as a bosveld lion falling upon a gemsbok while fending off the jackals and hyenas.

Suzie engages in a little self-___________ sometimes to keep herself honest.

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.

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.

The degenerate are the _____ of a civilized and well ordered society.

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.