Vocab Unit 10 Completing the Sentence

We look _______ at any program that makes it harder for city dwellers to get out and enjoy the beauties of nature.

askance

Though my childhood recollections have been _________ by the passage of time, they have not been totally effaced from my memory.

attenuate

I was relieved to learn that the officials were ________ and that I would only have to pay a small fine.

benign

Though critics ________ at minor faults in the new Broadway show, the general public loved it.

caviled

Any "investment counselor" who promises to double your money overnight must be regarded as a(n) ________ or a crook.

charlatan

During the fourteenth century, the Black Death suddenly swept across Europe, ________ the population and paralyzing everyday life.

decimating

The man's personality was a strange mixture of strengths and weaknesses, fores and _______.

foibles

Unless the title Special Aide to the Assistant Section Manager involves a salary increase, I would just as soon _________ it.

forgo

Ina typical James Bond movie, Agent 007 has a series of adventures that are _________ with tongue-in-cheek peril.

fraught

Life on the family farm has ________ me to hard physical labor and long hours of unremitting toil.

inured

Although the moon appease to be a(n) ___________ body, the fact is that it only reflects light from the sun.

luminous

During imperial times, the Roman Senate was little more than a collection of ____________ yes-man, intent upon preserving their own lives by gratifying the emperor's every whim.

obsequious

His statements have been so uniformly ___________ that I get the impression that he is wearing a permanent pair of mental blinders.

obtuse

As all kinds of wild rumors ran rampant through the besieged city, the mood of the populace _______ between hope and despair.

oscillated

No doubt he's very sorry he got caught, but that does not mean that he's at all ________ about what he did.

penitent

Good supervisors know that they can get more cooperation from their staff by making polite requests than by issuing ____________ orders.

peremptory

I was totally taken aback when they ________ my kind offers of assistance so rudely and nastily.

rebuffed

The general sent scouts on ahead of the army to ________ the area for a suitable site to pitch camp.

reconnoiter

The riot converted the quiet streets of that suburban community into a ghastly ________.

shambles

Although there had been some ______ fighting earlier, the real battles of the Civil War did not begin until Bull Run in July 1861.

sporadic