1. One of the signs of liver disease is when your skin gets somewhat ________ in color.
2. To build an addition onto their house, the Smiths had to go through a lot of ___________ with the city in order to get the right permits and such.
3. Even though we had had arguments in the past, he was very _______ when we saw each other, asking after my family and my health.
4. His annoying behavior was making the teacher quite ___________.
5. The game _________ Pursuit has lots of questions about relaively meaningless shtuff.
6. It is almost like my mom is capable of _____________. She can almost literally read my mind.
7. He a had a little _________ about being tidy. He couldn't leave a room without cleaning it up.
8. He made an almost ___________ movement with his head, but his teammate picked up on it.
9. His handwriting was almost like __________(s). The teacher had to make him "translate."

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      1. "I'm not speaking, I'm thinking," she said. "__________!"

   2. Mr. K was "reading from a metal book with raised _________(s) over which he brushed his hand," much like a blind person would read Braille.
   3. (2) My mom knew I was up to something when I suddenly went from being __________ to being __________. I was never that nice without wanting something in return.
   4. He didn't get outside much, so he had sort of a __________ complexion.
   5. (2) Being _______(ic) might lead to ___________ if you couldn't filter out other people's thoughts from your own. You'd go crazy!
   6. The change in the room was almost __________; if you didn't look very discerningly, you wouldn't notice it.
   7. The Earth man thought that his muddy boots were a _________ thing, that the fact that he had come from another planet was much more important.
   8. The Earth men are going through a lot of _________ to try to get someone to pay attention to them.
 

   1. There are the ________(s) of four presidents on Mount Rushmore.
   2. The candidate's ___________ was impressive; two of his grandparents, and three of his uncles were senators.
   3. Apparently, second period was under the __________ that it was OK to interrupt the teacher.
   4. Dally was very _________ about life; he saw nothing good in it, and looked on the bad side of everything.
   5. Spender thought that littering on Mars would be like _________; the ultimate disrespect.
   6. The kindergarteners __________(ed) around the playground.
   7. In addition to being very functional and useful, the machine was also ___________(ally) pleasing.
   8. excited : disappointed :: savvy : _________
   9. The rumor seemed to __________ itself all over the school, until everyone had heard it.
  10. I really ___________ my time with my son.

grotesque, cadence, aromatic, metamorphosis, censor, ruminate, elixir, transfixed, scapegoat, interim

   1. The Marine drill seargent counted the ___________ for the soldiers, "Left, right! Left, right, left!"
   2. The bed and bath store had many ______________ candles and soaps to choose from.
   3. The half-time show is the _____________ between the two halves.
   4. Supposedly Ponce de Leon was looking in the swamps of Florida for an __________ of youth.
   5. He wore a rather _____________ mask for Halloween.
   6. My little brother is often the _____________ for my misdeeds.
   7. Franz Kafka wrote a story called "The ______________," where a man wakes up to find he has become a huge cockroach.
   8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the top fifty books of all time as far as being ________(ed), for its use of the word "nigger."
   9. The old man sat long hours on the front porch, rocking and  _______________(ing) on life.
  10. He stood, ___________ by the sight, unable to even blink.