Six Months of Vocabulary Practice [words on wednesdays]

It is the _________ truth that this antediluvian typewriter needs ribbon to make it work.

They could _________ no outline through the thick fog, even in the satellite’s glow.

The blighted woman’s cries were __________ as they pulled her from the dock, shouting her innocence to anyone who would listen.

A plague of _________ is sweeping the country. No one cares a fig for anyone.

He removed the __________from the brackish water, the pungent smell overwhelming him as he cleaned the fossils.

With the ­­__________ of Venus in Sagittarius, the other planets formed a unique tessellation of incomparable beauty.

As the noise of the ­__________ grew nearer I wondered if she have any compunction to tell the garda the truth of the accident.

Crude oil seeped from the tanker, the toxic sludge tarring the _________ beach.

____________ women provide a quintessential example of the art of lying.

Plonk it there, he told her ___________ a place in the corner by the vat of hooch.

She cried as she re-read the contract. Mr. Peevers in his ___________ was about to repossess her home.

She _________ stamped her feet and then threw herself on the bed in a manic fit.

The department official held the stamp above the passport. Her breath caught. Would she be ruined? Or would she be one of the many __________ left in the state.