Level C Unit 12 Completing The Sentence

Question: recipient

Answer: Though a number of people may be nominated for the best actress Oscar each year, usually only one of them is the actual _________________ of it.

Question: fallacies

Answer: It was not hard for his opponents to shoot holes in his argument because the ___________________ it contained were as plain as day.

Question: capacious

Answer: I have never seen a car with a trunk __________________ enough to hold all the luggage you want to take on any trip.

Question: embargo

Answer: The president placed a(n) __________________ on the sale of arms to the two nations at war.

Question: abdicate

Answer: A ruler who has lost the support of the people may choose to ______________ and live in exile.

Question: tractable

Answer: The horse was often hard to manage, but he was ___________________ as long as he was headed in the direction of the barn.

Question: levity

Answer: Your attempts at _________________ during the most serious moments of the dedication ceremony were decidedly out of place.

Question: mendicants

Answer: Whenever I pass a group of homeless ________________ huddled in a doorway, I give them my spare change.

Question: teems

Answer: San Francisco is a city that _________________ with color and places of historical interest.

Question: negated

Answer: Dad said that he liked the fig-banana pie I had concocted, but the funny look on his face as he tasted it ________________ his words.