Question: The marathon not only brought in huge sums of money for Africa’s starving masses but also ______ much sympathy for their plight.

Answer: gandered

Question: Beneath the man’s cultivated manner and impeccable grooming there lurked the ____ mind of a brutal sadist.

Answer: depraved

Question: The man is ____ to have mob connections, but so far no one has actually substantiated the allegation.

Answer: reputed

Question: May I interrupt this abstruse discussion and turn your attention to more ____ matters-like what’s for dinner?

Answer: mundane

Question: Most people I know are so busy dealing with the ordinary problems of life that they have no time for ________ philosophical speculation.

Answer: esoteric

Question: During the eleven years of his “personal rule”, King Charles I bypassed Parliament and ruled England by royal _______.

Answer: fiat

Question: Analysis will show that his “brilliant exposition” of how we can handle the pollution problem without cost to anyone is the merest ________.

Answer: sophistry

Question: I was so ______ by the oppressive heat and humidity of that awful afternoon that I could barely move.

Answer: enervated

Question: The phonograph is but one of the wonderful new devices that sprang from the ____ mind of Thomas Edison, our most prolific inventor.

Answer: fecund

Question: “Your suspicion that I am constantly making fun of you behind you back is a mere____ of your overheated brain,” I replied.

Answer: figment