History shows that powerful nations tend to __________ weaker ones.

fickle

"My aunt's interests change with the weather, showing she is a truly fickle person."

iota

"The employer has not an iota of proof, but he blames the new clerk for the theft anyway."

Hurricanes are a __________ threat to this area.

They were a football team with __________.

The __________ population of the United States is growing smaller, but farms are important as ever to the nation.

The young man who seemed so quiet and __________ turned out to be very well informed and to have strong opinions of his own.

Evidence showed that the lawyer had tried to __________ with the witnesses by offering them bribes to change their testimony.

I suspected that his expression of happiness was __________ and that he was really jealous of our success.

It wasn't very __________ of you to tell her that her new eyeglasses were out of style.

Here, the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant, display their goods...here, stores of old iron and ones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen-stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellers.

A grimy cellar is...

And Mr. Sikes was right. By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.

Something that is done ultimately takes place....

As soon as Horace opened his lunch bag, I realized he needed something more __________ to eat.

The sun --- the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man --- burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory.

When something is radiant, it is NOT...

They entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist.

When they entreated, they...