(adj.) easily taught, led, or managed; obedient; teachable; manageable

(n.) a very small part or quantity; a speck; a dab; a smidgen

to interfere with; to handle in a secret and improper way; to fool with; to mess with

(n.) an imitation designed to deceive

(adj.) not genuine; fake; false; bogus

(v.) to make an illegal copy

(adj.) very dirty; covered with dirt or soot; filthy; sooty; soiled

(adj.) skilled in handling difficult situations or people; polite; skillful; discreet

(adj.) relating to farm areas and life in the country; countrified; pastoral

(adj.) liable to change very rapidly; erratic; marked by a lack of constancy or steadiness; inconsistent

(n.) a short account of an incident in someone's life; a tale

(v.) to combine; to unite; to make solid or firm; to strengthen; to merge

(adj.) shining; bright; giving forth light or energy; glowing; dazzling

(v.) to beat or knock about; to handle roughly; to mangle; to batter, to manhandle

(n.) a heavy hammer

(adj.) last; final; most important or extreme; eventual; basic; fundamental; farthest; terminal

(v.) to rule over by strength or power; to control; to tower over; to command due to height; to govern; to overlook

(n.) on who flees or runs away

(adj.) fleeting; lasting a very short time; wandering; difficult to grasp

(adj.) capable to being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate; flawed

(v.) to beg, implore, ask earnestly, plead; to appeal to

(adj.) possible; able to happen

(n.) something that can develop or become a reality

(adj.) large; important; major; significant; prosperous; not imaginary; material; considerable; big

Synonym: capability, possibility

synonym: skillful, discreet

synonym: plead, appeal to

Antonym: disspate, disperse, scatter

Antonym: sureness, certainty, confidence

antonym: minor, insignificant, negligible

All of us live with the _____ of not knowing what will happen in the future.

Ending the season with a championship title is the _____ goal of most teams.

If you _____ with that delicate mechanism, you may not be able to get it to work properly again.

Good teachers know how to be _____ when discussing their students’ writing.

She has been recommended to repeat the seventh grade because she has been absent for a(n) _____ part of the school year.

Children of farmers are sometimes eager to leave the _____ areas where they grew up and head for the big cities.

The mother looked _____ as she smiled down at her newborn baby.

Baseball scouts agree that the young left-handed pitcher has the _____ to become a major league star.

The carpenter needed a _____ to pound the huge peg into the wood.

After thoroughly examining the company’s accounts, the investigator said that he could not find one _____ of fraud.

Mom took one look at my _____ face and hands and handed me a bar of special soap that mechanics use.

Though the police have recaptured three of the escaped prisoners, one of the _____ still remains at large.

The _____ movie reviewer changed her opinion of the film each time she saw it.

As children grow up, they gradually realize that their parents are not heroes but _____ human beings.

The child helplessly _____ her stranded cat to come down out of the tree.

Our team’s seven-foot center and brawny forwards totally _____ the basketball game.

Corey’s horse was once a wild and spirited stallion, but now it is old and _____.

An honest student would never try to _____ a parent’s signature on a report card.

This computer program makes it possible to _____ several images into one.

Instead of giving a complete history of the president’s early life, the book was filled with _____ about his childhood.