Quiztina Aguilera
I enjoy science-fiction movies, as the provide short but exciting (umbrage, hiatus) from the problems of everyday life.
What is Hiatus
If you try to (elicit, intercede) in a friend's quarrel, you will only make things worse.
What is Intercede
I see no point in (expostulating, simulating) with a person who habitually refuses to listen to reason.
What is Expostulating
My teacher can (simulate, elicit) some degree of interest and attention from even the most withdrawn children.
What is Elicit
At the Senior Prom, my sister and most of her friends were glad that men are no longer expected to take the (prerogative, hiatus) in choosing dance partners.
What is Prerogative
The magnificence far (simulated, transcended) my ability to describe it in words.
What is Transcended
I truly dislike the kind of sensational popular biography that focuses solely on the more (lurid, hackneyed) or scandalous aspects of a superstar's career.
What is Lurid
After watching four TV football games on New Year's Day, I was (jaded, hackneyed) with the pigskin sport for weeks to come.
What is jaded
On the air the star seemed calm, but he privately sent (petulant, jaded) notes to those who gave him bad reviews.
What is Peulant
The newspaper account of the tragedy was quite sensational and filled with (lurid, provincial) details about the accident.
What is Lurid
His skillful use of academic jargon and fashionable catchphrases could not conceal the essentially (hackneyed, meritorious) quality of his ideas.
What is Hackneyed
Who would have thought he would take (prerogative, umbrage) at an E-mail from a friend who only wanted to help?
What is Umbrage
The most (meritorious, lurid) form of charity, according to the ancient Hebrew sages, is to help a poor person become self-supporting.
What is Meritorious
To impress her newly made friends, she (simulated, assuaged) an interest in modern art, of which she knew nothing.
What is Simulated
How can you accuse me of employing (umbrage, innuendo) when I am saying in the plainest possible language that I think you're a crook?
What is Innuendo
Perhaps it will (expostulate, assuage) your fright if I remind you that everyone must try something for the first time at some point in his or her life.
What is Assuage
What is Prerogative
The American two-party system almost always makes it unnecessary to form a (hiatus, coalition) of minority parties to carry on the government.
What is Coalition
I prefer reading about modest and sympathetic characters rather than those who are contemptuous and (lurid, jaded)
What is Jaded
When the (umbrage, hiatus) in the conversation had become embarrassingly long, I decided that the time had come to serve sandwiches.
What is Hiatus
They try to "prove" the (umbrage, decadence) of modern youth by emphasizing everything that is bad and ignoring whatever is good.
What is Decadence
Popularity polls seem to be based on the mistaken idea that the basic task of a political leader is to win immediate (approbation, coalition).
What is Approbation
We cannot know today what sort of accent Abraham Lincoln had, but it may well be that there was a decidedly (meritorious, provincial) twang to his speech.
What is Provincial
The defense attorney realized quickly that the witness's statement was filled with (innuendo, coalition), not facts.
What is Innuendo
Apparently mistaking us for the millionaire's children, the hotel manager overwhelmed us with his (petulant, unctuous) attentions.
What is Unctuous