Character & Personality
A student keeps practicing free throws every day even after missing most of them during basketball practice.
Word Box: tenacious, novice, placid, obliging, egotistical, judicious, cordial, fanatical, vile, conscientious
Tenacious
A ruler has complete control and allows no one to question their decisions.
Word Box: tyranny, regime, sovereign, consensus, moderation, ration, contract, premise, morale, prosperity
Tyranny
A family has very little money and struggles to buy groceries.
Word Box: impoverished, lavish, prosperous, generic, substantial, meager, thriving, viable, monumental, expansive
impoverished
A scientist makes an educated guess about why plants are dying.
Word Box: premise, rationale, concept, revelation, fidelity, morale, conversion, conjecture, capacity, consensus
conjecture
The moon and stars belong to this type of heavenly category.
Word Box: terrestrial, kinetic, luminous, cavernous, concentric, vivid, contemporary, celestial, expansive, subtle
Celestial
A new employee asks many questions because it is their first week on the job.
Word Box: novice, aptitude, legendary, subtle, bleak, senile, arbitrary, cynical, adverse, rigorous
Novice
A country’s king or queen holds supreme power over the nation.
Word Box: predecessor, statutory, communal, arbitrary, premise, deficit, generic, sovereign, chronology, constraint
sovereign
A hiker becomes trapped between two cliffs with no easy way out.
Word Box: predicament, utopia, consensus, compromise, aptitude, potency, chronological, arbitrary, morale, flourish
Predicament
A lawyer explains the logical reason behind her argument in court.
Word Box: premise, generic, concise, substantial, vivid, potential, variant, sector, rationale, interim
rationale
A desert receives little rain and supports very little plant life.
Word Box: teeming, spacious, luminous, dynamic, fertile, versatile, arid, cordial, contemporary, viable
arid
A classmate constantly brags about being smarter and better than everyone else.
Word Box: cordial, placid, obliging, versatile, egotistical, concise, dynamic, faithful, rational, impartial
egotistical
The government officially approves a new law allowing students to carry water bottles in class.
Word Box: suppress, exploit, comply, purge, sanction, constrain, override, implement, cultivate, incorporate
sanction
After a hurricane, the town faces serious danger and hardship.
Word Box: predicament, plight, perilous, ravage, deficit, morale, arbitrary, mediocre, rationale, adversity
adversity
A student summarizes a 10-page article into three clear sentences.
Word Box: concise, animated, chronological, luminous, expansive, substantial, versatile, generic, arbitrary, immersive
Concise
A glowing jellyfish lights up the dark ocean water.
Word Box: luminous, bleak, subtle, vile, placid, kinetic, arbitrary, generic, sedentary, senile
Luminous
A nurse carefully checks every medicine label twice before giving it to a patient.
Word Box: erratic, naive, bleak, malicious, arbitrary, impulsive, sedentary, hostile, generic, conscientious
conscientious
A group of leaders temporarily controls a country after an election crisis.
Word Box: regime, interim, consensus, predecessor, dominion, compromise, rationale, morale, viable, adversity
regime
A dangerous storm makes traveling across the ocean extremely risky.
Word Box: perilous, placid, kinetic, vivid, cordial, concise, rational, viable, aesthetic, expansive
A rumor twists the truth and changes what actually happened.
Word Box: fidelity, revelation, chronicle, premise, formulation, rationale, prejudice, distortion, contract, disposition
distortion
The inside of the cave was so huge and hollow that voices echoed everywhere.
Word Box: concentric, cavernous, concise, chronological, conventional, sedentary, substantial, contemporary, cordial, dynamic
cavernous
During a heated debate, one student stays calm and peaceful while everyone else argues loudly.
Word Box: belligerent, malicious, placid, ravenous, tyrannical, animated, erratic, devious, bleak, notorious
placid
Citizens all come to the same agreement after hours of discussion at a town meeting.
Word Box: dissension, prejudice, plight, premise, contract, consensus, magnitude, variant, prejudice, conjecture
consensus
The wildfire completely destroys hundreds of acres of forest.
Word Box: dispel, enhance, ravage, cultivate, nurture, rectify, merge, traverse, cite, perceive
Ravage
A reporter records historical events in the exact order they happened.
Word Box: chronological, interim, generic, arbitrary, kinetic, formulate, traverse, contemporary, subtle, placid
chronological
The circles spread outward sharing the same center point.
Word Box: concentric, expansive, arbitrary, terrestrial, contemporary, viable, kinetic, substantial, chronological, vivid
concentric