Lessons 13 and 14 sentences

According to Walter Savage Landor, "Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the BLANK look the most profound."

turbid

When oil wells burn, they release BLANK, toxic smoke that threatens human and plant life in an entire region.

turbid

When Juliet refuses to wed Count Paris, her father issues an BLANK to marry or nevermore be acknowledged as his daughter.

ultimatum

When the government failed to respond to their BLANK for better working conditions, the air traffic controllers went on strike.

ultimatum

Marie-Therese Basse, a(n) BLANK 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 BLANK of environmental protection, warning against chemicals toxic to the earth and its creatures.

apostle

Some universities have proscribed deliberate BLANKs that insult or degrade persons on the basis of race, sex, or nationality.

aspersion

A(n) BLANK may call attention to a note containing details too lengthy for the body of the report.

asterisk

Use BLANKs to alert your reader to one (*) or two (**) notes at the foot of a page; for more notes, use numbers.

asterisk

Using his great quadrant and naked eye for BLANK and planetary sightings, Tycho Brahe became the foremost sixteenth-century astronomer in the Western World.

astral

A BLANK of eighteenth-century politicians, artists, actors, and writers, David Garrick and Samuel Johnson among them, belong to The Club, which met regularly in a London inn.

constellation

Ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian astronomers divided the stars into groups of BLANKs whose pictorial representations resemble some sign of the zodiac.

constellation

At an annual awards ceremony at the Kennedy Center, a(n) BLANK of distinguished performers in the arts receives recognition.

constellation

At the Turkish market, flat woven rugs called kilims were BLANKs of ancient symbolic designs in rich colors.

constellation

According to the astronomer Dr. Allan R. Sandage, advances in BLANK have moved the study of the universe from ethereal speculation to concrete measurement and record.

cosmology

The dimensions of BLANK have grown vastly as satellite photographs probe ever deeper among galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

cosmology

Lee Miller, a BLANK who spent most of her life abroad, achieved success as a fashion model, war reporter, and photographer.

cosmopolite

The rainclouds BLANK in time for the graduation ceremonies to proceed as planned.

disperse

BLANK of flu viruses occurs so rapidly that a vaccine for one variety becomes useless the following year

dispersion

In Letter to Alive on First Reading Jane Austen, Fay Weldon uses a(n) BLANK format to express her admiration for Austen as a way to help an imaginary niece write her own novel.

epistolary

In one of many BLANK exchanges from France with her sister, Abigail Adams observed that fashion is the deity everyone worships in this country."

epistolary

Alice James believed in "the BLANK law that however great we may seem in our own consciousness no human being would exchange his for ours."

immutable

Some mathematicians believe in BLANK relationships of mathematical elements that seem timeless and valid in all places at all times.

immutable

Because she had tricks up her sleeve to rectify every situation, the effervescent Mary Poppins could remain BLANK no matter what problems beset her.

imperturbable

In the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Aunt Ida, despite searing experiences in her life, maintains an BLANK exterior that belies any inner anguish.

imperturbable

Pandora's BLANK 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 BLANK 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 BLANK behavior.

insubordinate

The BLANK of Odysseus's greedy crew as they open the crucial bag of wings not only enrages him, but also further delays their return from the Trojan War.

insubordination

Congress BLANKed that the third Monday in January would honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader slain in 1968.

ordain

In 1990 Congress BLANKed that Native American languages could be "encouraged and supported as languages of instruction" in schools.

ordain

Reform Jewish congregations in the United States now BLANK women as rabbis.

ordain

A Muslim BLANK requires that believers fast between sunrise and sunset during the holy month of Ramadan.

ordinance

In 1944 a Mexican BLANK abolished the siesta, the practice of closing businesses and office during midday hours.

ordinance

Until the mid-twentieth century, BLANKs in some states made marriage between whites and nonwhites illegal.

ordinance

In 1910 a dress revealing an ankle was thought BLANK.

outre

On January 3, 1959, Alaska became the BLANK state in the Union, followed in the same year by Hawaii.

penultimate

To pronounce the word constellation correctly, place the accent on the BLANK syllable

penultimate

Mathematical BLANK may alter the sequence of symbols in a group, as in xy to yx

permutation

Increasing signs of global warming BLANKs environmentalists, who fear the consequences of greater deterioration of the ozone layer.

perturb

Letters to the editor increase when issues such as police brutality and harm to the environment BLANK newspaper readers.

perturb

Attempting to BLANK a historical injustice, a grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd claims that he was not an accomplice of Abe Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, but only set his leg before letting him go.

rectify

Through Ada Deer's advocacy, the U.S. government in 1973 returned forest land to the Menominee people and BLANKed an earlier transfer of the land to the state of Wisconsin.

rectify

According to Jewish legend, the presence of at least thirty-six righteous men in every generation will provide BLANK enough to justify the survival of the world.

rectitude

In Chile, Conchita Cintron was recognized as a BLANK bullfighter.

stellar

With the discovery of BLANK 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 BLANK and apathetic until partial success has crowned the faith and enthusiasm of the few."

stolid

One of the original photographers for Life magazine, Margaret Bourke-White proved BLANK and intrepid with her camera in military zones during World War II and the Korean War.

temerarious

Some people considered Margaret Mead BLANK for going to a remote South Sea island to conduct research in the thirties.

temerarious

As Daedalus and his son escape from Crete on handmade wings, Icarus has the BLANK to fly so high that the sun melts the wax, and he falls to his death in the sea.

temerity

Jon Jose Artigas, loyal to Simon Bolivar, became an apostle for land rights of the indigenous people, having the BLANK to oppose wealthy South American landowners.

temerity

Joseph Addison, an eighteenth-century essayist. declared, "I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to BLANK wit with morality."

temper

The manufacturer of fine knives BLANKs the steel to the degree of hardness that will best keep the blade sharp.

temper

According to the Roman orator Cicero, "BLANK is the moderating of one's desires in obedience to reason."

temperance

An ardent apostle of BLANK, Evangeline Booth writes that alcohol has "Dug more graves than any other poisoned / Scourge."

temperance

In the cause of BLANK Carry Nation and her crusaders marched into saloons, singing hymns.

temperance

Desperate to outrun her would-be lover Apollo, Daphne escapes him when her father BLANKs her into a laurel tree.

transmute

In a Guatemalan legend, Brother Pedro BLANKs a green lizard into an emerald so that the penniless Juan may prosper; when secure, Juan returns the gem, which the monk BLANKs to its original form.

transmute