Sadlier Level G Unit 3 Choosing the Right Word

The extraordinary musical talents of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (evinced, dissembled) themselves at an amazingly early age.

From the deck of our luxury liner, we occasionally caught sight of schools or porpoises (cavorting, evincing) playfully in the waves.

Far from being unpleasant, her sight foreign accent added an extra dash of spice to her already (primordial, piquant) personality.

The new mayor is a curious mixture of the hardheaded pragmatist and the (utopian, murky) reformer.

Not surprisingly, the address was a notably evenhanded affair in which the speaker cleverly mixed (eulogy, verbiage) with admonition.

When life was easy he was all dash and confidence, but in times of trouble his essentially (piquant, feckless) character came to the fore.

Unfortunately, the (nefarious, verdant) hopes and aspirations of my youth have been somewhat blighted by the icy blasts of reality.

Trying to read your (viscous, utopian) prose is just like trying to swim upstream through custard.

Because the playwright had hurried trough her first draft, she had to make (substantive, nefarious) change as she revised the dialogue.

His (viscous, unwonted) interest in the state of my finances strengthened my suspicions that he was about to ask for a loan.

The book has an interesting plot, but the author has practically smothered it in endless (verbiage, eulogy).

Despite all the reports of "miraculous" cure,you would be well advised to withhold (verbiage, credence) until the drug has been fully tested.

(Exhumed, Distraught) with grief, they sat motionless for hours, staring blankly into space.

An accomplished hypocrite usually finds it very easy to (dissemble, decry) his or her true feelings as circumstances dictate.

The behavior of armies in wartime often evinces the (murky, primordial) blood lust that civilized people have not yet fully overcome.