SAT Vocabulary List #3 Application Part Deux

Far from being unpleasant, her foreign accent added spice to her __personality

The new mayor is a curious mixture of a hardheaded pragmatist and the __reformer.

When life was easy he was confident, but in times of trouble his _character came to the fore.

From the deck of our boat, we frequently saw schools of porpoises __playfully in the waves.

An accomplished hypocrite finds it easy to __his true feelings

Unfortunately, the __hopes of my youth have been blighted by blasts of reality.

Trying to read your __prose is like trying to swim upstream through custard.

The book as in interesting plot, but the author has practically smothered it in endless__.

His __interest in the state of my finances strengthened my suspicions that he was a crook.

Though the work hadn't been performed for over a century, a daring actor --and staged it well.