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The _____ soccer player was able to quickly dribble the ball past his opponent.
agile
Larry was __ when he farted in class.
mortified
Amelia and Benjamin were ___ over the news that they were expecting their second child.
jubilant
Unable to convince her mother to let her go out, Jacqueline ___ did her homework instead.
sullenly
To show how much I ___ the hard work my team put on this project, I will treat them to an extravagant buffet meal.
My ____ and I work well together as we have been working at the same company for many years.
My two children are always ___ and at loggerheads over all sorts of trivial matters.
bickering
Yasmin’s gentle ___ and love for children make her a good teacher.
demeanour
Playing truant and skipping classes is not ____.
permitted
Titus ___ loudly when his friend Joe made a pun.
guffawed
The ___ serial killers resulted in families torn apart by grief and confusion.
horrendous
The scorching heat left us feeling ___ after a few hours.
enervated
I ___ eating carelessly and not exercising when I was younger as it resulted in a whole host of health problems later in life.
rued
Without having to think about it, Karen __ closed her eyes when her brother splashed water in her face.
instinctively
The ___ dog clung on to the intruder despite the man’s best efforts to shake it off.
tenacious
Through these internships, Sarah gained ___ to the teaching profession.
The hikers ___ the slippery mountain slope with care.
negotiated
Maddox entered this line of work because he expected it to be ___.
lucrative
The ___ winds blew against Petra’s skin, making her shiver.
frigid
The students regarded examinations as a/an ___ to be survived rather than an assessment to be embraced.
ordeal