Vocab 13+14 sentences
__________ generally agree that the big bang theory explains the Origin of the universe.
Cosmologists
________ called "Blue Laws," forbidding work on the Sabbath, developed from puritanical restraints initiated by seventeenth century religious zealots.
Ordinances
According to the Roman orator Cicero, "________ is the moderating of one's desires in obedience to reason."
Temperance
Maric-Therésé Basse, a _______ for relief of food shortages in countries bordering the Sahara, developed a millet that can be locally grown.
apostle
With her 1962 book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson became an ________ of environmental protection, warning against chemicals toxic to the earth and its creatures.
apostle
"My life became a tissue of rumors and accusations," said German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl when speaking of ________ resulting from her purported involvement with Nazi propaganda.
aspersions
In his 1950's hunt for Communists in government, Senator Joseph McCarthy cast ________ on many innocent people.
aspersions
In retaliation for his lack of promotion, Iago launches ________ against Othello by challenging the fidelity of his wife.
aspersions
Some universities have proscribed deliberate _________ that insult or degrade persons on the basis of race, sex, or nationality.
aspersions
A _______ may call attention to a note containing details too lengthy for the body of the report.
asterick
Use ________ to alert your reader to one (*) or two (**) notes at the foot of a page; for more notes, use numbers.
asterisks
Including the Sun, the _______ population of our galaxy, the Milky Way, numbers 100,000.
astral
Many people have assigned divine powers to _______ bodies.
astral
The aster is a flower that takes its name from an _______ shape: petals radiating from a yellow center.
astral
Using his great quadrant and naked eye for _______ and planetary sightings, Tycho Brahe became the foremost sixteenth century astronomer in the Western world.
astral
A __________ of eighteenth century politicians, artists, actors, and writers, David Garrick and Samuel Johnson among them, belonged to The Club, which met regularly in a London inn.
constellation
During a quarter of a century a __________ of Soong family members-a son and three daughters-significantly influenced the political life of China.
constellation
For art lovers the city of Florence represents a _________ of Renaissance architecture, sculpture, and painting.
constellation
Ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian astronomers divided the stars into groups of _________ whose pictorial representations resemble some signs of the zodiac.
constellations
At an annual awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center, a _______ of distinguished performers in the arts receives recognition.
constellations
At the Turkish market, flatwoven rugs called kilims were ________ of ancient symbolic designs in rich colors.
constellations
The nomenclature of _________ commemorates Characters in Greek myths, such as Andromeda, Hercules, and Orion followed by the dog Sirius.
constellations
The mythology of cultures around the world contains stories explaining __________ origins and stellar deities.
cosmological
According to one expert. Edwin P. Hubble's 1929 discovery that the universe is expanding uniformly in all directions made _________ a genuine science.
cosmology
According to the astronomer Dr. Allan R. Sandage, advances in ______ have moved the study of the universe from ethereal speculation to concrete measurement and record.
cosmology
The dimensions of ________ have grown vastly as satellite photographs probe ever deeper among galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
cosmology
In Baroness Orczy's novel, Sir Percy Blakeney leads the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, using his ________ finesse to rescue Victims of the French Reign of Terror.
cosmopolitan
Jessye Norman is __________ not only in her travel to cities in the United States and Europe, but also for the many nationalities she assumes in operas.
cosmopolitan
Lee Miller, a _________ who spent most of her life abroad, achieved success as a fashion model, war reporter, and photographer.
cosmopolite
When Socrates says, "I am not an Athenian nor a Greek. but a citizen of the world," he gives us a definition of ________.
cosmopolite
Some airports use recordings of gunfire to _______ seagulls that gather on runways, presenting a hazard for departing jets.
disperse
The lead singer ________ flyers at the high school about the band's upcoming concert.
dispersed
The rainclouds _______ in time for the graduation ceremonies to proceed as planned.
dispersed
Observations in St. Paul's _________ to the Galatians inspired Martin Luther in molding the Protestant Reformation.
epistle
A Character in a novel by Mavis Gallant offers this ________ advice: "Don't cry whilst writing letters. . . . If you must tell the world about your personal affairs, give examples. Don't just sob in the pillow hoping someone will hear."
epistolary
In Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, Fay Weldon uses a ______ format to express her admiration for Austen as a way to help an imaginary niece write her own novel.
epistolary
In one of many _______ exchanges from France with her sister, Abigail Adams observed that "fashion is the deity everyone worships in this country."
epistolary
Many early novels were __________, revealing a character's innermost thoughts and actions through letters he or she writes.
epistolary
Alice James believed in "the ________ law that however great we may seem in our own consciousness no human being would exchange for his ours."
immutable
Some mathematicians believe in _______ relationships of mathematical elements that seem timeless and valid in all places at all times.
immutable
When Gulliver visits Laputa, he cannot believe the ________ of citizens whose attention must be caught by servants rattling flappers on sticks.
imperturbability
Although Mr. Micawber declines into poverty that sends him and his family to debtor's prison, he remains __________, always sure that "something will turn up."
imperturbable
Because she had tricks up her sleeve to rectify every situation, the effervescent Mary Poppins could remain ______ no matter what problems beset her.
imperturbable
Despite reporters' challenging questions, the president's spokesperson remained _________ throughout her White House press conferences.
imperturbable
In the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Aunt Ida, despite searing experiences in her life, maintains an ________ exterior that belies any inner anguish.
imperturbable
Pandora's _____ curiosity led her to open a forbidden box from which escaped all earthly plagues, and only hope was left inside.
inordinate
When baseball cards in mint condition are rare and picture stellar _______ players, people will pay prices to own them.
inordinate
When the desperately hungry Oliver Twist says, "Please sir, more" he is punished by the schoolmaster for what is considered ___________________ behavior.
insubordinate
The _______ of Odysseus's greedy crew as they open the crucial bag of winds not only enrages him, but also further delays their return from the Trojan War.
insubordination
Reform Jewish congregations in the United States now _____ women as rabbis.
ordain
Congress ______ that the third Monday in January would honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader slain in 1968.
ordained
In 1990 Congress _______ that Native American languages would be "encouraged and supported as languages of instruction" in schools.
ordained
A Muslim _______ requires that believers fast between sunrise and sunset during the holy month of Ramadan.
ordinance
In 1944 a Mexican ________ abolished the siesta, the practice of closing businesses and offices during midday hours.
ordinance
Many Cities have established an ________ against smoking in public places.
ordinance
Church _________ now allow girls as well as buys to serve as acolytes.
ordinances
Until the mid-twentieth century, ______ in some states made marriage between whites and nonwhites illegal.
ordinances
Because their ideas and their blue worsted stockings were considered _______, intellectual women of the 17503 were called "Blue Stockings," still a term of aspersion.
outre
For some diehards in every age, new inventions seem _______, even the automobile, the airplane, and the telephone, because they appear to Violate traditional modes of travel and communication.
outre
In 1910 a dress revealing an ankle was thought _______.
outre
Since the first publication of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, readers have found the novel ________ for its interspersed blank or black or marbled pages and missing or dislocated chapters, all part of the author's scheme.
outre
On January 3, 1959, Alaska became the _________ state in the Union, followed in the same year by Hawaii.
penultimate
To pronounce the word constellation correctly, place the accent on the _______ syllable.
penultimate
Mathematical ________ may alter the sequence of symbols in a group, as in xy to yx.
permutation
_______ of flu viruses occurs so rapidly that a vaccine for one variety becomes useless the following year.
permutation
As Alice visits Wonderland, she experiences surprising _________, growing into a giant and shrinking to insect size.
permutations
Since the formation of national baseball teams in 1857, rules of the sport have undergone many ________.
permutations
That dress went through several ________, from Mother's prom gown to my dress-up costume to quilt squares.
permutations
Letters to the editor increase when issues such as police brutality and harm to the environment _______ newspaper readers.
perturb
Increasing signs of global warming _______ environmentalists, who fear the consequences of greater deterioration of the ozone layer.
perturbs
Through Ada Deer's advocacy, the U.S government in 1973 returned forest land to the Menominee people and _______ an earlier transfer of the land to the state of Wisconsin.
rectified
Attempting to _______ a historical injustice, a grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd claims that he was not an accomplice of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, but only set his leg before letting him go.
rectify
According to Jewish legend, the presence of at least thirty six righteous men in every generation will provide _______ enough to justify the survival of the world.
rectitude
Although labeled an "Enemy of the People" in Henrik Ibsen's play, Dr. Thomas Stockman exemplifies ________ in maintaining truth: the city's spa is contaminated and must be shut down.
rectitude
In Greek literature two forms of ________ became personified: Nemesis, or righteous anger, and Aidos, feelings that prevent wrongdoing and increase sensitivity to undeserved suffering.
rectitude
In the epistolary novel Pamela, the ________ of the maidservant finally convinces her employer that marriage is the only way he will ever win her.
rectitude
In Chile, Conchita Cintron was recognized as a _______ bullfighter.
stellar
In a Washco myth, the wily Coyote seeks applause for his _______ handiwork: providing the heavens with five wolf brothers, sky pictures, and a Big Road made from left-over stars.
stellar
In ancient times the city of Babylon on the Euphrates River was a ________ attraction for its culture and magnificence.
stellar
Receiving the 1945 Nobel Prize for Literature gave the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral a _________ place among South American writers.
stellar
With the discovery of ______ spectra, colors produced by hot gases and measured in wavelengths, astronomers are able to ascertain the chemical composition of stars.
stellar
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has written that "history shows that the masses of all oppressed classes... have been ______ and apathetic until partial success had crowned the faith and enthusiasm of the few."
stolid
Portraits of the former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin show him with a _______, unyielding expression, a man of power, not of compassion.
stolid
Stella Gibbons alludes to the proverbial stolidity of cows when she writes, "Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited their turn to be milked."
stolidity
In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the protagonist, Marlow. is shocked to see exhausted people sitting _______ under a tree' shackled and starving.
stolidly
Made famous in a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the British Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 was a _________ and costly assault on Russian troops at Balaclava during the Crimean War.
temerarious
One of the original photographers for Life magazine, Margaret Bourke-White proved _________ and intrepid with her camera in military zones during WWII and the Korean War.
temerarious
Some people considered Margaret Mead ______ for going to a remote South Sea island to conduct research in the thirties.
temerarious
The actor Errol Flynn typically played ________ heroes in such films as Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk.
temerarious
In her single-engine plane, Beryl Markham ________ delivered mail and rescued downed pilots in remote regions of Kenya.
temerariously
As Daedalus and his son escape from Crete on handmade wings, lcarus has the ________ to fly so high that the sun melts the wax, and he falls to his death in the sea.
temerity
Don José Artigas, loyal to Simén Bolivar, became an apostle for land rights of the indigenous people, having the ______ to oppose wealthy South American landowners.
temerity
After much practice, singers of atonal music learn to _______ their pitch and hit the note the composer intended.
temper
At outdoor summer concerts the pure sounds of talented musicians can partially _______ heat, insect bites, and the thirst of listeners.
temper
Hard work and a hash climate _______ the spirit of Antonia Shimerda in Willa Cather' 8 novel My Antonia.
temper
Joseph Addison, an eighteenth century essayist, declared, "I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to ________ wit with morality."
temper
An ardent apostle of _____ , Evangeline Booth writes that alcohol has "Dug more graves than any other poisoned / Scourge."
temperance
In the cause of _________ Carry Nation and her crusaders marched into saloons, singing hymns.
temperance
The manufacturer of fine knives ________ the steel to the degree of hardness that will best keep the blade sharp.
tempers
Desperate to outrun her would-be lover Apollo, Daphne escapes him when her father ______ her into a laurel tree.
transmuted
In a Guatemalan legend, Brother Pedro _______ a green lizard into an emerald so that the penniless Juan may prosper; when secure, Juan returns the gem, which the monk ________ to its original form.
transmutes
According to Walter Savage Landor, "Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the _______ look the most profound."
turbid
Because the Ganges River is considered holy, throngs coming to bathe in it keep it ________.
turbid
Dredging rivers to control the growth of water hyacinths keeps the water ________ with silt.
turbid
In his essay "Politics and the English Language" George Orwell attacks prose made _________ by redundancy and verbosity.
turbid
When oil wells burn, they release ________, toxic smoke that threatens human and plant life in an entire region.
turbid
During the Vietnam War in the 19605, protesting students often issued _________ demanding that their university cease war-related research.
ultimata
Mom gave me an _________: be home by midnight or I would not be allowed to go on the class trip.
ultimatum
The gods delivered an _________ to Thebes-the murderer of King Lauis must be brought to justice or the plague will continue.
ultimatum
When Juliet refuses to wed Count Paris, her father issues an _________ to marry or nevermore be acknowledged as his daughter.
ultimatum
When the government failed to respond to their ______ for better working conditions, the air traffic controllers went on strike.
ultimatum