He is much too _______ in his writings; he writes a full page when a single sentence would suffice.

If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience, you can not do so by being understated, tentative, or __________.

The post-monsoon season routinely               such storms at least twice a month.

Early _____ of maladjustment to college culture is _ ____ by the tendency to develop friendship networks outside college which mask signals of maladjustment.

They are making the new ball ————a lot this morning.

It is certain that human beings ______ latent power of which they are only ______ aware.

Before his marriage the Duke had led an austere existence and now regarded the affectionate, somewhat ____ behavior of his young wife as simply ____ .

Complete and constant openness is a notion that can be…………………..to absurdity. Am I……………..to stop everyone on the street and tell them my reaction to their appearance?

The ideas that these companies used seem so clear with _________ that their rivals will now _______ themselves for not thinking of them first

Overall, the recent policy changes by the government only amount to a _________ in the sugar industry.