Question: lassitude

Answer: Marian Wright Edelman has never succumbed to … but has instead remained a tireless advocate of children’s rights since the 1960s.

Question: intrinsic

Answer: In stating that “All men are created equal and endowed..with certain inalienable rights,” the Deceleration of Independence proclaims the … value of every human being.

Question: occulted

Answer: The large trees that surrounded the strange mansion …. our view of the building.

Question: exhortation

Answer: We are all ready and willing to do what must be done; what we need is leadership-not …!

Question: surmised

Answer: In this situation we cannot act on the basis of what may be …, but only in accordance with what is definitely known.

Question: ameliorate

Answer: One way to … your fears of giving a speech is to put your audience at ease with a a personal anecdote.

Question: permeated

Answer: A sour odor of decay, stale air, and generations of living … every corner of the old tenement.

Question: surmised

Answer: I … that you did well on your test when you bolted through the front door as though you had just won the lottery.

Question: precipitated

Answer: When the bridge suddenly collapsed in the high winds, the people on it at the time were … to their deaths in the watery abyss below.

Question: millennium

Answer: “I’m sure you every wish will be granted,” I assured the demanding child, my tongue firmly on my cheek, “when and if the … every comes!”