All those who __________ with the enemy in the hope of gaining special favors will be punished severely.

The assembly speaker may have been boring, but that was no excuse for the students' ________behavior toward him.

I have always regarded our colleges and universities as __________of learning and bastions against ignorance and superstition.

The fact that he was found guilty of a felony many years ago doesn't __________his running for mayor.

When I fumbled the ball on the three-yard line, the _________ of the crowd suddenly turned into jeers and catcalls.

I refuse to accept the excuse that the pressures of a new job caused you to __________ to your old habit of cigarette smoking.

After the operation, we sat in the hospital lounge, keeping a nightlong __________ until we heard from the doctor.

For weeks an anxious world __________ between war and peace as diplomats desperately struggled to resolve the crisis.

Every time he quotes an old __________, he looks as though he has just had a brilliant new idea.

She raised so many objections to attending the dance that it was obvious she was ________ for an excuse not to go.

A president needs people who will tell him frankly what they really think, rather than just offer __________ approval of everything he does.

There are times when we all need to be __________ away from old, familiar ideas that may no longer be as true as they once seemed.

The principal was quick to approve new programs for our club but _________ in providing financial support for them.

The little club that they set up to talk over community problems __________ over the years into a national political organization.

The "broken down old furniture" that the woman left to her children turned out to be a __________ of valuable antiques.

The committee found it impossible to reach any agreement on the matter because the views of its members were so ________.

After I had broken curfew for the third time in one week, my angry parents ________ that I was grounded for the rest of the term.

As we searched through the ________ after the earthquake, it was hearbreaking to find such articles as a teakettle and a child's doll.

From the hundreds of newspaper items, the lawyer carefully __________ three short paragraphs that supported his case.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen states __________ so much that the nation seemed to be in danger of breaking up.