| 1. The baby's parents discovered that their new son seemed very interested in the song that his mother had been practising playing while he was still in the __________. | | |
| 2. Fishermen are __________ to exaggerate the size of a fish that got away. | | |
| 3. Tattoos have gone from being a sign of rebellion to being a symbol of fashion and __________. | | |
| 4. My co-worker is an __________ jerk who never listens to anyone and insists on making all the decisions, which are usually wrong. | | |
| 5. The student's excuses for handing in his essay a week late were simply not __________ so he got a zero for the assignment. | | |
| 6. There seems to be a __________ among young people nowadays that one's sexual orientation is a private matter. | | |
| 7. The class decided by __________ what the consequences would be for lateness and absenteeism. | | |
| 8. Evidence from these recent experiments appear to __________ your hypothesis. | | |
| 9. Doing repeated review exercises of vocabulary in context will help to __________ that vocabulary in your memory. | | |
| 10. The media often __________ stereotypes regarding minorities. | | |
| 11. Research shows that the lifestyle of a pregnant woman can have an impact on a baby, even in the __________. | | |
| 12. Foreign students are __________ to periods of homesickness, which are a typical part of the cycle of culture shock. | | |
| 13. Oil companies are trying to __________ the science behind global climate change much in the same way tobacco companies tried to __________ the link between cigarettes and cancer. | | |
| 14. Studies show that women generally focus more on a man's economic status than on his appearance, probably because the woman carries most of the responsibility of rearing and __________ the children. | | |
| 15. How can he go out with that __________ woman? She treats him like a child and is always ordering him around. | | |
| 16. We need to improve our education system, which too often encourages __________ rather than creativity. | | |
| 17. With the recent discovery of water on Mars, the suggestion that there may be life on the planet now seems __________. | | |
| 18. Her mother was a very __________ person who spent all her time with her children. | | |