Artifice
adversanes
craven
exhilarates
musing
punitive
alienating
culinary
fallow
negligible
redress
deleted
harassed
perpetuate
sojourn
coerce
demise
inclement
precedent
urbane
1. when the manager accidentally
a document on his
computer, he spent hours frantically trying to recover the information he had erased.
_2. she dreamt of a career as a chef and envisioned herself whipping up
delights in her own restaurant
_3. the two runners came in only a tenth of a second apart, but in the intensely
competitive world of sprinting, a tenth of a second is not an) .
difference
4. the business person decided that the only way to
insult he had uttered would be a public admission that he had been wrong.
the
_5. although the young woman had traveled to italy expecting only ain)
in the country, she was so enchanted that her temporary
stay grew into a permanent one
6. when the baseball player at the high school whistled after he had hit a home run,
his action set a(n)
that continues to this day home-run
hitters always whistle as they run the bases
7. every meeting always began in the same way with a plate of doughnuts. the new
manager didn't wish to
this tradition, so he began
ordering a different dish for each meeting
8. as the puppies grew older, they
running around them and barking until the poor cows were all in a dither.
the livestock by
9. in the prelude to the trojan war, the human paris was asked to judge which of
three goddesses was the most beautiful when he chose aphrodite, the other two became
bitter
to paris and his country.