Vocabulary - 2d

millennium ????????(exhortation,

"I'm sure your every wish will be granted," I assured the demanding child, my tongue firmly in my check, "when and if the ___ ever comes!"

permeated

A sour odor of decay, stale air, and generations of living ___ every corner of the old tenement.

interloper

After the unexpected defeat, the members of the team wanted to be alone and regarded anyone who entered the locker room as a(n) ___

lassitude

After years of fighting for social reforms, she experienced a sort of spiritual ___ that caused her to withdraw and let other people lead the struggle.

ex officio

Because I believe in spreading governmental powers among several officials, I am opposed to having the Mayor serve as ___ head of the Board of Education.

stringent

Do we need new laws to combat crime, or rather, more ___ enforcement of the laws we already have?

bombastic

His message may seem ___ but there is a solid framework of practical ideas underlying the rather pompous language.

callow

I can usually forgive a(n) ___ display of feeble jokes and showing off-but not by someone whe-t<as passed his 40th birthday!

ameliorated

I trust that we will have the will to improve what can now be improved and the patience to bear what cannot now be ___.

intrinsic

In stating that "All men are created equal and endowed ... with certain inalienable rights," the Declaration of Independence proclaims the ___ value of every human being.

surmised

In this situation we cannot act on the basis of what may be ___ , but only in accordance with what is definitely known.

inveigh

It is easy to ___ against "dirty politics," but less easy to play a positive role, however small, in the political process.

epitomized

Long periods of intense boredom punctuated by short periods of intense fear" - in this famous definition a British general ___ the nature of war.

drivel

Must we continue to listen to all this childish ___.

aplomb

She handled a potentially embarrassing situation with cool ___.

infringes

The publisher will take prompt legal action against anyone who ___ on the copyright of this book.

ingratiating

The song had a pleasant, ___ melody that gained it quick popularity and then caused it to be forgotten just as quickly.

occult

There is evidence that proves that many persons supposed to possess ___ powers have either been clever frauds or the victims of self-deception.

exhortation or aplomb)!????????

We are ready and willing to do what must be done; what we need is leadership - not ___.

precipitated

When the bridge suddenly collapsed in the high winds, the people on it at the time were ___ to their deaths in the watery abyss below.