Vocabulary Workshop Level E Unit 4 - Complete Sentence

The screening committee investigated not only the candidates themselves but also the organizations with which they were ___.

affiliated

Before making our final plans, we should ___ exactly how much money we will have for expenses.

ascertain

Her election to Congress was the ___ of a lifelong ambition.

attainment

If only parents could ___ their hard-won practical wisdom and experience to their children!

bequeath

Our representative offered one simple but ___ argument against the proposal: It would raise the cost of living.

cogent

As we stood on the railway tracks looking off into the distance, the rails seemed to ___ and meet at some far-off point.

converge

Isn't it remarkable how quickly a throng of sunbathers will pick up their belongings and ___ when a few drops of rain fall?

disperse

When the candidate admitted openly that he had been mistaken in some of his earlier policies, we ___ him more highly than ever.

esteem

Though I wanted to "let bygones by bygones," I found that I could not wholly ___ the bitter memory of their behavior from my mind.

expunge

Because our natural resources are ___ and by no means inexhaustible, we must learn to conserve them.

finite

So long as we remained indoors, we were ___ to the arctic blasts that swept down on our snowbound cabin.

invulnerable

When I saw the pain he caused others and the pleasure he took in doing so, I realized he was a truly ___ person.

malevolent

In a situation that would have left me all but helpless with embarrassment, he remained cool and ___.

nonchalant

The more knowledge and wisdom people acquire, the more keenly they become aware that no one is ___.

omniscient

Antibiotics were once considered wonder drugs, but we now know that they are not ___ for all our physical aliments.

panacea

Only by paying ___ attention to innumerable details were the investigators able to piece together the cause of the accident.

scrupulous

IN the opening scene of the horror film, a shadowy figure dressed in black ___ through the graveyard in the moonlight.

skulk

Is there anyone in the world as ___ as a senior who attends a mere sophomore class dance?

supercilious

Your ability to guess what I am thinking about at any given time is nothing short of ___.

uncanny

I knew the dean would accept my apology when she characterized my behavior as thoughtless but ___.

venial