1. It was difficult to tell whether his tirade in fact had force of fact, whether his forceful (i) ______ was mere (ii) ______, motivated by malice, or whether it ranked as reportorial (iii) ______ of which the committee ought take notice.
2. Her grandparents valued seemliness above all else, and were (i) ______ at her incorrigibly (ii) ______ behavior.
3. It was apparent to everyone present that upon receiving the medal, a decoration long past due, the superannuated veteran adopted a mood of exaggerated hilarity, almost as if the unexpected resolution of a lifetime of injustice came as a ______ surprise.
4. There are many good reasons to construct urban traffic lanes for cyclists: city infrastructure is already ______ under the strain of excess auto traffic, and the safety advantages of limiting road-sharing between cyclists and vehicles are all too clear.
5. Despite their diminutive stature, horse jockeys are far from ______ bunch: many would all-too-happily allow minor umbrage to escalate to barroom brawl.
6. The apparent simplicity of a cup of coffee ______ the dizzying number of hours of toil required to produce it, from months of cultivation of the bean tree to painstaking refinement in highly sophisticated machinery.
7. Notwithstanding the mishmash of worn tools littering every surface of the artist’s studio, the place exuded a certain sense of order manifest through the clutter; the decor was, if (i) ______, (ii) ______.
8. Two years after the legislature’s (i) ______ approval of the community edifice, construction came to an equally public standstill, largely due to the unforeseen hemorrhaging of the (ii) ______ funds at the hands of spendthrift leaders.
9. Incensed, and perhaps spooked, by the implications of the bureau’s purportedly (i) ______ inquisitions, the Hollywood film director shuttered his studios, suspended production of numerous projects, and (ii) ______ with his wife to Europe.
10. The relationship between the two leaders has gone from positively (i) ______ to chilly at best, not least because the recent arms scandal threatens to (ii) ______ the mutual trust that has been held on both sides for years.
11. One needn’t resort to arrant (i) ______ in order to demonstrate that one possesses the requisite degree of deference and respect for one’s elders; indeed, oftentimes such blandishments can make one appear (ii) ______ and ignorant—qualities presumably (iii) ______ with the original intent.
12. Debates over free will have always focused on the extent to which humans may be said to be fully (i) ______ their actions. Dr. Wegner in his article deliberately and artfully (ii) ______ the traditional talking points of the controversy, instead asking a tangential, though possibly more (iii) ______, question: What effect does a person’s belief in free will have on his or her well-being?
13. Once the candidate established herself as the clear frontrunner, it took but a brief interlude in the clamor for all her erstwhile (i) ______ to gather around her and to begin loudly proclaiming their (ii) ______. It seemed, in other words, to cause these newcomers not an iota of discomfort to behave in a manner that a casual observer might have characterized as (iii) ______ outright hypocrisy.
14. Some substances toxic to humans induce lassitude and torpor, whereas others incite (i) ______ or (ii) ______.