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NETTLE

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FLOTSAM

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ATROPHY

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TO WASTE AWAY

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RUSE, TRICK, PLOY, SUBTERFUGE

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TO COMPLAIN, GRUMBLE

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CONTEMPTIBLY COWARDLY OR MEAN-SPIRITED

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LUDICROUS promises

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a campaign to get rid of all INCUMBENTS in Congress

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JOCULAR demeanor

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preferred to be RECUMBENT

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CONSUMMATED the match

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MORDANT wit

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LUDICROUS pictures

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Expert witnesses at trials are usually paid for their services, so they may have a ____________ motive for testifying.

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There I stood, like some latter-day Ruth, desperately attempting to _______ a few grains of intellectual wheat from the vast heap of verbal chaff that lay before me.

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When the doors open on a crowded subway, there is often a(n) _________ rush to get out.

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She attributed the _______ of her imagination to endless hours spent on repetitive tasks

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No one will believe the _______ denials of a thief who's been caught stealing on videotape.