Oftentimes, client will go to a lawyer with a problem that could essentially be solved due to arbitration with litigation forgone. Sometimes, these cases will go to trial, but the judge may dismiss it as a _________ lawsuit and send the parties home.

Students often ask __________ questions which derail discussions over the materials we are trying to cover. For instance, in the middle of a discussion over the heroic exploits of Beowulf, if someone asks, "What's for lunch today?" it disrupts the trajectory of the lesson.

Some eye conditions such as glaucoma or retinitis pigmentosa can damage your __________ vision, which is your ability to see to the sides, which results in tunnel vision.

We often engage in merely __________ conversations with most people since we do not trust our secrets with them and due to the fear that some would use our heartfelt sentiments against us and gossip relentlessly.

His concerns seemed _______ to me, but he was very seriously upset that he had gotten a bad grade on his quiz. He was not used to hardship and wanted everything to be easy. He was taking it harder than he should have, not realizing he could have prevented all this by merely studying.

Dr. Jones was very _________; he studied multiple ancient languages including Hittite, Latin, Greek, Akkadian, and Tocharian A and B. He was a renowned scholar in his field and written several books on Indo-European linguistics.

Perry Mason was a very ________ lawyer and most always was able to figure out how to best defend his clients and reveal the truth in courtroom proceedings.

If you make an __________ comment, it cuts right to the heart of the matter since this word's origins have to do with cutting from the Latin root *cis.

Your grandfather is a very _________ man. He always is willing to sit down with us and think through everything and offer up some of his wisdom that he has acquired over his long life.

________is related to the Spanish/Portuguese word "saber," meaning to know. So, if you are _______, it means you are in the know.

The smell of the exhaust fumes in the racecar shop were ______ to my nose, but we had to run the motor in to check the valve clearances.

Koos's sheep farm, Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein, lies in the Great Karoo, part of which is semi-_____, meaning that it receives some rainfall but is not quite as desert-like as the Kalahari.

It is easy to see the ________ qualities of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, such as Rembrandt's Night Watch, but it is much harder to see the artistic beauty in more modern works as they abandoned many age-old principles of form in the late 20th century.

Tommy liked algebra and trigonometry due to the definite right answers he got when solving problems. He had a hard time with the ___________ nature of literary studies since there could be multiple interpretations of any work of literature, and one could be just as correct as the next.

After reading George Eliot's Middlemarch, it took a while for my thoughts on the novel to __________ so that I could deduce the themes, but then it finally occurred to me that the main character had to be Dorothea, which was exceptional for the time of the novel's publication in that most works of that time only featured male protagonists.

After the surgery, it took her a full month to _________ so that she could return to work with no restrictions on activity.