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

Answer: Lassitude

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

Answer: Intrinsic

Question: The large trees that surrounded the strange mansion _____ our view of the building.

Answer: Occulted

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

Answer: Exhortation

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

Answer: Surmised

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

Answer: Ameliorated

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

Answer: Permeated

Question: I _____ That you did well on your test when you bolted through the front door as though you had just won the lottery.

Answer: Surmised

Question: 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.

Answer: Precipitated

Question: “I’m sure your every wish will be granted,” I assured the demanding child, my tongue firmly in my check, “when and if the _____ ever comes!”

Answer: Millenium