“The central hub is where both the Director and Assistant Director ___________ the missions that arecarried out by our agents around the globe. We have outposts on every continent.”

To ensure compliance, the film department of the propaganda ministry now directly __________ the planning and production of all new German films and made sure they followed the rules.

“Your daughter is doing well here. I’ve been _______________her training.”

The glacier ________________ for a long time, snaps and crashes, jitters under our feet.

But her heart hammered in her chest, and she _____________ as she went to light the campfire.

With one exception the older residents of Medallion ________________ them.

Once more, I saw Miss Lilian sweeping down those stairs, head high, ________Mother as she passed her, glaring at Georgie and me.

Scent has a positive connotation.

Someone who is pitiful is worthy of pity.

The monster __________ back into the darkness of her cave and was lost to sight.

A pitiful attempt, is one that isn't good enough.

Nothing could have been more ______________and hopeless than the twenty-eight men marooned on the rotting ice pack nearly 200 miles from the nearest solid land.

Someone who catches a person or animal and keeps them confined or imprisoned is a _________.

When a police force captures a criminal and puts them in prison, the police become ___________.

_______ is open disrespect for someone or something.

Others still called them Mujahideen, but, when they did, they made a face—a sneering, distasteful face—the word reeking of deep aversion and deep ___________.

Use _______ instead of smell if you want to talk about a distinctively nice odor, like fresh-cut grass.

The self-adhesive seals that bound the wings to our backs were already melting, and we were _____________ bronze feathers.

As he talks, I _________layers, tossing stuff onto the marble table below the big beveled mirror.

Spend too many hours on the beach without sunblock? You'll need some aloe to ________ that sunburn.

It was distressing to consider the ________ and anxiety his absence was causing those who cared.

“No sight of __________ disturbs us, nor of despairing poverty out in vain search for employment.... We work our eight hours a day in peaceful security and in absolute confidence of our pay.”

After all, as Chucha herself would say, what good is it to escape captivity only to be imprisoned in your own ________________?

Someone who's ____________ feels absolutely awful.

“There’s a whole city in ruins, and more of his kind willing to take advantage of others’ __________,” he explained.