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A perfect game is the ____ of any pitcher's in baseball.
The highest point
Acme
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The ________ I most admire in you is your willingness to give everyone's opinions a fair hearing.
A quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something.
Attribute
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Candidates for public office may resort to negative ads that ________ their opponents' records.
To make something appear smaller than it is
Belittle
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Please ______ our best wishes to your parents on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
To transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known; to transfer ownership or title to.
Convey
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No two religions see eye to eye on every fine detail of ________.
A belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles.
Doctrine
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If you ______ that irrelevant remark, you will improve your essay.
To remove by cutting
Excise
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A recipe may call for ______ herbs and spices that are difficult to obtain.
Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual.
Exotic
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The _______ refugees were give food, clothing, and temporary shelter.
Thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild looking.
Haggard
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I bought a ______ straw hat.
Lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or tim in appearance.
Jaunty
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Our property ends at the ________ of the two stone walls.
A joining together the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time.
Juncture
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During the Great Depression, people were thankful to have work of any kind, no matter how ______.
Lowly, humble, lacking Importance or dignity.
Menial
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An effective press secretary can _____ almost any question a reporter asks.
To ward off, fend off, deflect, evade, avoid.
Parry
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Owls and other _________ Birds play an important role in maintaining the balance of nature.
Preying on, plundering, or piratical.
Predatory
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Swarms of locusts ______ the farmer's fields and orchards.
To destroy, lay waste, ruin.
Ravage
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A fashion model's ______ is calculated to show off a designer's clothing to best advantage.
A way of holding the the body; and attitude or position on an issue.
Stance
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