Won
Missiles, artillery, and even atomic weapons proved useless against the seemingly _______, 400-foot tall monster that had emerged from the sea and laid waste to two cities on the East Coast.
What is invincible?
"You know, I did great in biology and chemistry in college," complained Doreen to her parents, "but memorizing everything about human ____ in two months for the first year of medical school is difficult!..."
What is anatomy?
Barb cold barely resist the ______ to yell something at the poorly dressed man on the corner holding a sign that said "Please help."
What is impulse?
As the mutated bacterial strain _____ worldwide, the leaders of nations conferred to discuss strategies to be used against the deadly organism.
What is proliferated?
When most people think of a castle, they ____ the long, dank halls of stone through which an untold number of lives might have played out--some richly, some tragically.
What is envisage?
As the world's scientists and biologists attempted to deduce the origin of the colossal lizard, the military continued to launch every weapon in its arsenal in an attempt to _____ any sort of pain or injury in the beast, if only to slow its destructive progress.
What is induce?
"... I certainly have no compunction about trying to become a doctor," Doreen continued, "but this first semester is killing me. My dermatology book is a five-pound _____ of over 1,000 pages, filled with descriptions and pictures of horrible skin diseases!"
What is tome?
What are motifs?
The deadly organism spreading through the world has so far proven to be ______ to conventional antibiotics.
What is impervious?
For this reason, many tourists visiting the old castle in the hopes of witnessing the supernatural _____ rumored to have been occurring there for decades.
What are phenomena?
Doo doo do doo doo.
Many invasive plant species thrive because their new environment is _______ to rapid growth.
What is conducive?
Logan's incisive articles, which struck at the heart of many world issues, were considered to be the _____ of investigative journalism; few reporters influenced popular opinion as much as he did.
What is epitome?
"The other motifs are joy, confusion, and guilt; however, I would be entirely _____ if I didn't explain that these emotions occur in an English-speaking, philosophical dog, which one of you will portray on stage."
What is remiss?
The strain had spread fastest in developed nations, leading most scientists to make the _______ that the strain was spread by contact with contaminated water and sewage.
What is inference?
Though the ghosts are but a single ____ of the castle, which is a wealth of history, it is the part that creates the most excitement for visitors.
What is aspect?
Kudzu was introduced into the southern United States in the late nineteenth century for three purposes: as a shade plant, as cattle food, and as a vine to stop soil erosion. Sunny, humid weather and plenty of rainfall caused Kudzu to spread quickly, and it is now ____ in most areas in spite of great effort to remove it.
What is intractable?
Logan attributed his success in journalism to _____ research and the verification of every detail, which ensures that the facts are, indeed, facts.
What is punctilious?
"Since you will not be in a dog costume," the author continued, communicating the dog's thoughts will require you to _____ more precisely than you would if the character were human."
What is emote?
Initial tests of the sewage and water lines, however, purported to show nothing out of the ordinary, which forced the scientific community to ____ from its usual approach to containing an epidemic.
What is deviate?
Some guests to the haunted castle leave with a haunted _____, something like a "thousand yard stare."
What is visage?
Daily Double!
Fortunately, officials have learned, for the most part, to avoid the ____ importing of foreign plants and animals in order to solve problems; such decisions are impossible to ______ once the new species establishes itself.
What are impetuous and retract?
Daily Double!
"At the same time," Logan continued, "stories must balanced the details in a(n) ________ of both truth and emotional appeal--a writer must show how the subject is relevant to the readers. Anything irrelevant should be ______."
What are dichotomy and excised?
Bailey Bubble
In the year 1266, Marco Polo, a wealthy ______ from Europe, met with Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of Asia. Exactly what happened in the years that Marco Polo lived is simply _____ because no accurate document of that time exists.
What are emissary and conjecture?
Daily Double!
The new plan I will ______ to the protesters blocking construction of the town's new ______ is a plan they should willingly accept. We simply need to build the road as soon as possible.
What is proffer and viaduct?
Daily Double!
Caretakers and visitors to the castle have reported seeing dozens of ghostly _____, from the little boy who peers from an attic window to the "lady on the stairs," a graceful ghosts who appears in the winter months on the landing of the main stairway, and through whose ____ body one can see the window pane and torch sconces behind her.
What are apparitions and diaphanous?