Level H Unit 8 Vocabulary Sent. Comp.

The opening acts were so good, we wondered how the ________ could possibly top them. 

Avoiding charges of __________, the mayor would not hire relatives for city jobs. 

The tarp provided a/an ________ solution to covering the roof until in could be repaired.

The ancients viewed comets and eclipses as _____ of the end of the world. 

One trait of a psychopath is the inability to feel ____________ for others. 

The student's _________ performance on the test was quite out of character. 

The _____ old man had a heart of gold beneath his gruff surface. 

The ________ sounds of his mother's voice soothed the crying baby and helped him to sleep.

Some would say that Shakespeare put naughty jokes in his plays to ______ to the groundlings. 

He wallowed in ______ until his desires were eventually sated. 

The people of the Irish coast were the victims of many ____________ by Norse invaders. 

The stellar student's failing grade was a/an _______, explained by her lack of sleep. 

Many old-fashioned scientific theories that were once revered are now regarded as _____. 

The accumulation of symptoms suggested he was suffering from some unidentified __________.  

I would view occasional tardiness as a/an ______________, not a major fault. 

Though he did not have the title, he was the _______ manager of the store most evenings. 

Trying to play on the sympathies of the reader, the author lapsed into ______. 

The prisoner's appeal was _______ to a lower court for a decision to be rendered.

A few ____________ in an organization can poison the whole workforce. 

She wore her glasses today in response to the clouds of pollen, the _ of contact lens wearers.