Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books were so vivid that, as a child, I felt I was ... experiencing the realities of pioneer life.

My uncle Rick seems unable to ... himself of the idea that he is still capable of the feats he performed in his youth.

Government bureaucracy was hobbling many programs with ... of red tape.

Many of Mark Twain's contemporaries found his essays amusing, but others cringed at his ... commentary.

I cannot understand how Blair was able to ... a meeting between two people who had refused to have anything to do with each other.

A favorite ploy of the ... is to appoint a convenient scapegoat upon whom a misguided populace can vent its anger.

The coach put his faith in his team, hoping they would not ... the bounds of their training and violate protocol.

Her opinion of her own importance is so grotesquely exaggerated that we have come to regard her as a ...

A(n) ... group at the convention refused to accept the choices of the regular party leaders.

Jeb's conduct after breaking up with Marissa was so ... that I must conclude he was not in full possession of his faculties.

With the innumerable activities open to a young person like you, I can't understand why you should suffer from ...

While Joan was sleeping soundly in her tent, oblivious to nocturnal creatures, a snake made its ... way across the campsite.

Although her new position bore a high-sounding title, it was really little more than a ...

The task of education, said the speaker, is to ... the primitive selfishness of the child into socially useful modes of behavior.

By casting ... on the ability and character of others, you reveal the misgivings you have about yourself.

He's so tight with his money that it's just about impossible to ... a nickel out of him, no matter how worthy the cause.

Living ... through her children, my neighbor pushes her sons and daughters into every extracurricular activity imaginable.

If, as they now claim, they were not aware of the illegal character of their undertaking, why did they plan it so ...?

Have you ever heard of anything as ... as an experimental technique to test the intelligence of plants?

For ancient Romans, fleeing from the battlefield was the most ... act of cowardice a soldier could commit.

He may have kept within the letter of the law, but there is no doubt that he has ... the accepted moral code.

The institutions of our society, far from being ..., are in the process of change at this very moment.

What hurt my feelings was not so much his refusal to give me a job as the ... way in which he told me that he had nothing for me.

I spent all morning trying to ... our frightened cat out from under the house.