The institutions of our society, far from being ________________, are in the process of change at this very moment.

By casting __________________ on the ability and character of others, you reveal the misgivings you have about yourself.

The task of education, said the speaker, is to ______________ the primitive selfishness of the child into socially useful modes of behavior.

Although she is well into middle age, my aunt Sally seems unable to ________________ herself of the idea that she is still a teenager.

Although her new position bore a high-sounding title, it was really little more than a(n) _________________.

What hurt my feelings was not so much his refusal to give me a job as the ________________ way in which he told me that he had nothing for me.

Can you imagine anything as ____________________ as a successful drama coach who has never acted on the stage!

With the innumerable activities open to a young person like you, I can't understand why you should suffer from ________________.

I cannot understand how she was able to __________ a meeting between two people who had refused to have anything to do with each other.

If, as they now claim, they were not aware of the illegal character of their undertaking, why did they plan it so _____________________?

The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln once and for all broke the __________________ that bound Southern Blacks to a life of servitude and humiliation.

He's so tight with his money that it's just about impossible to __________________ a nickel out of him, no matter how worthy the cause.

Her description of the Western frontier was so vivid that I seemed to be _____________________ experiencing the realities of pioneer life.

Since he had always been quiet and retiring, we were amazed when he stood up at the meeting and _________________ the chairperson for failing to give everyone a chance to speak.

His opinion of his own importance is so grotesquely exaggerated that we have come to regard him as _________________________.

He may have kept within the letter of the law, but there is no doubt that he has __________________ the accepted moral code.

For ancient Romans, fleeing from the battlefield was the most _______________ act of cowardice a soldier could commit.

A(n) _________________ group at the convention refused to accept the choices of the regular party leaders.

Have you ever heard of anything so _______________ as an experimental technique to test the intelligence of cows!

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It was a truly outlandish set of circumstances.

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His lawyer tried to undeceive him of that belief.

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The judge was sure to rebuke the vandals.

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The army tried to quell the chaos caused by the fear-mongering of a rabble-rouser.

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It was the cleverest plan we could devise.

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With his plans cancelled, he suffered from world-weariness all summer.

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Just the innuendo was enough to taint his once-stellar reputation.

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The child wheedled his mother for that chocolate bar at the check-out.

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His request for a raise was met with a curt 'no'.

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The sudden change in plans was unusual.