What is the definition of 'permeate'?

What does 'persevere' mean?

What is the definition of 'defer'?

What does the word 'elation' mean?

The familiar____ of wood on leather let us know that baseball practice had begun.

_______ shrubs like roses and lilacs satisfy gardeners not only because they smell good, but also because they grow for many years.

Pollution from automobiles and smokestacks _____ the air in many cities, causing health problems for people.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in the United States, _____ despite ridicule and exclusion from the medical profession.

Schools and colleges sometimes ____ admission, accepting students later in the year.

In one of Aesop's fables, the ____ hare loses the race to the persevering tortoise.

Many Americans felt _____ when two Apollo astronauts took their first steps on the moon in 1969.

You can't ____ that people have talent just because they are celebrities.

The doctor ____ that all children should be vaccinated against polio.

Girls who were ____ upon joining Little League teams won the right to do so in a 1974 court decree.