Profound
profoundly
profundity
(mal)nutrition nutrition
nutrient
nutritional
nutritionally
Incalculable
calculation
calculate
calculus
calculable
nutritious
1. The scientist’s _____________________ was off by just .00000001%, but it was enough to
overturn his experiment’s accuracy.
2. The _______________________ content of water is almost zero.
3. ____________________ is a form of mathematics.
4. One of the most ___________________ foods available is the avocado.
5. E=MC2 is a truly _________________ equation due to its implications about the energy
contained in small amounts of matter.
6. The soldier was __________________ affected by the horrors of what he witnessed in the war.
7. One of the major impacts that poverty has on children is _______________________.
8. One can think of vocabulary as being a ___________________ for reading comprehension.
9. The extent of the damage done by the hurricane was ____________________; in fact, 25 years
later people are still discovering new effects.
Erosion
erode
erosive
Defendant
defend
defense
Threaten
threat
Excrement
excretion
Fecal
feces
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
defensive
defensively
excrete
If you verbally _________________ to kill someone, you have technically broken the law.
The scientific word for animal __________________ is scat.
Tears are a form of saline ______________________ from the eyes.
The 21-year-old murder ______________________ showed no remorse for his crime, so he was
sentenced to life in prison.
Owning a gun is actually a greater ________________ to one’s own safety than it is an effective
_______________________ strategy.
Lying has an __________________ effect on any relationship, but it is especially bad in a
marriage.
Restaurant employees are obligated to wash their hands after using the toilet to be sure there is
no ___________________ matter on their hands or under their finger nails.
When the trees are removed from a hillside, then rain water will ___________________ the
topsoil; eventually, this can lead to a landslide.
Buddhists are only to act ______________________ in life, never as the aggressor.
The most common synonym for __________________ and ___________________ is shit.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will __________________ to the death your right to say
it.
Compelling
compel
compulsion
compulsive
compulsively
Tension
tense
tensely
intense
intensively
Therapeutic
therapeutically
Contamination
contaminate
therapy
therapist
contaminant
21. If you are a ______________________ person, it is very difficult for you to stop doing
something, regardless of whether it is beneficial or harmful to you or others.
22. Saunas are considered to be very ________________________ in many cultures. They act as
healing agents.
23. One of the more common ______________________ in air pollution is lead.
24. Massage _________________ is very helpful for stress reduction.
25. I cannot ___________________ you to do the homework unless you have the right level of
motivation.
26. Some ____________________, such as writing constantly, can actually help a person become a
great author.
27. When the man at the party announced that he was in love with the host’s wife, the
___________________ in the air was palpable.
28. If you study something _____________________, you will probably become an expert in that
area of knowledge.
Pathogenic
pathogen
pathogenically
Organism
organic
organically
Conscience
conscientious
conscientiously
Residue
residual
organ
29. Some ___________________ can mutate and become deadly diseases.
30. There are billions of _____________________ living in the stomachs of every human.
31. If a person has no functioning __________________, s/he doesn’t care about what is right and
wrong.
32. One of the ______________________ effects of war is depression.
33. When the water in a lake evaporates, what is left on the lakebed is organic
_________________________.
34. Serious students are very _______________________ about completing all of their assignments
on time and accurately.
35. The biggest ___________________ of the human body is the skin.