Choose the word that best completes each sentence. You may need to change the form of the word to make it grammatically correct.

1. The baseball game was cut short because of the __________________ weather.

   1.   ?    tepid
   2.   ?    fallow
   3.   ?    benevolent
   4.   ?    inclement

2. When the truck drove down the side street, the road collapsed; now there is a __________________ hole in front of my house.

   1.   ?    deploying
   2.   ?    gaping
   3.   ?    gibing
   4.   ?    augmenting

3. The millionaire owned many __________________ homes around the world.

   1.   ?    insidious
   2.   ?    opulent
   3.   ?    benevolent
   4.   ?    negligible

4. Drinking and driving is putting your life in ______________________.

   1.   ?    jeopardy
   2.   ?    redress
   3.   ?    holocaust
   4.   ?    quintessence

5. Because the students don't pay attention, the teacher has to __________________ herself many times before everyone hears her.

   1.   ?    delete
   2.   ?    perpetuate
   3.   ?    adulterate
   4.   ?    reiterate

6. The story goes that a cow started the ____________________ that burned down Chicago.

   1.   ?    sojourn
   2.   ?    holocaust
   3.   ?    artifice
   4.   ?    demise

7. In order to make the lines go faster at Best Buy during the holiday season, the managers usually ______________________ the work force by hiring seasonal help.

   1.   ?    perpetuate
   2.   ?    adulterate
   3.   ?    coerce
   4.   ?    augment

8. Bob's mother made Bob provide __________________ for the neighbor's window that he had smashed.

   1.   ?    redress
   2.   ?    sojourn
   3.   ?    impetus
   4.   ?    intimation

9. Decisions from the Supreme Court set legal _______________________ that all other judges must follow.

   1.   ?    guises
   2.   ?    artifices
   3.   ?    gibes
   4.   ?    precedents

10. The girl was so ___________________ that it seemed she must have been wearing those clothes for weeks.

    1.   ?    meticulous
    2.   ?    unkempt
    3.   ?    opulent
    4.   ?    belligerent