While grieving a loss I find _________ in simple things: sharing food with my family, playing piano, writing, and being in nature.
Solace
100
My students often ________ me; most importantly, I feel fairly irked when you line up at the door like cattle headed to slaughter. Do not like.
peeve
100
emptied of or lacking content
vacuous
100
arrogance
hubris
100
My 2018 New Year's resolution is to never feel ________. To accomplish this I am taking wild and exciting risks daily.
ennui
200
If more people in the world practiced ________ maybe we would have less suffering; on the other hand, maybe we’d all get bored to death from all the kindness. After all, we humans love us some good ole drama.
Altruism
200
An exceptional editor does not ________ a writer’s work--that’s a waste of everyone’s time. Praise may feel good, but critical feedback actually supports a writer’s growth.
extol
200
I had the best day today, I managed to form an ________ sentence when talking to my crush.
eloquent
200
consolation
solace
200
English is KILLING me. One more day of this and I will DIE!
Hyperbole
300
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of it.
Hyperbole
300
Instead of starting from scratch, they _________ two old ideas into a brand new one: why eat cake, why eat lollipops, when you can eat cake pops!
amalgamated
300
I’m a terrible liar; whenever I’ve committed a wrong my face forever looks ________ until I’ve admitted my guilt.
furtive
300
devoid
vacuous
300
I _________ your guilt because of the _________ glances that kept crossing your face.
inferred, furtive
400
Though as a culture we technically don’t value _______ , the media oftentimes glorifies people that exhibit it.
Hubris
400
to make milder or less severe. relieve.
assuage
400
The _________ aerobics instructed yelled her instructions at the top of her lungs--I worried that the mirror may crack from her exuberance.
vociferous
400
benevolence
altruism
400
When facing a difficult task or a fear, I recall the white-knuckled hours sloshing about in the stormy Pacific and feel the thick nub of _______ slip-knotted into the fibers of my being. I lived through that; I will live through this.
resilience
500
Define or give an example of a paradox.
1. a statement that seems contradictory or against common sense but may still be true
2. a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposites
500
In order to ________ my ________ nerves I had to __________ a fuzzy pillow with a sleeping bag to make a fuzzy cocoon to get inside of.
assuage, peeved, amalgamate
500
The ________ banshee wailed like a maniac and the ________ hot air balloon floated around emptily.