1. As there might be __.--.

__ behind the scene, the newspaper editor refrained from giving his take on
the recent developments of the ongoing conference. (TRADE)

2. Due to the __.-..__ content contained in the film, it cannot be premiered in highly religious countries.
(REVERE)

3. To solve the lack of human donors, research into __…__ is being heavily invested in despite violating
ethical standards. (TRANSPLANT)

4. The adoption of __.-.__ can be a show of economic force as it can exude great confidence in a nation’s
financial situation. (METAL)

5. “Now now, stop being such a __.__! Let’s go to that abandoned hospital together, I’m sure we’ll be
fine! It’s not like ghosts exist or anything.” (CAT)

6. To express his loyalty towards the boss, he has to __…__ obey every single one of the organization’s
orders, including shady businesses. (SERVE)

7. Whether personal __-.-.__ rather than maternal priorities should come first with modern women is
disputable. (FILL)

8. In order to ensure the impartiality and fairness of the study, the scientists decided to conduct a __..-__
experiment. (BLINDED)

9. “My mom keeps interfering with my personal hobbies and relationships. Can she stop being a __.__
just this once?” (BODY)

10. Signs of deterioration in the quality of drinking water may include malodorous smell and __- -__.
(COLOUR)

BONUS: In Thailand, “__.__” laws have been established to protect the royals’ image and reputation.
Those who don’t abide will be punished severely. (MAJESTIC)

1. Even though they may have very different biology from us humans, scientists still suspect that aliens
are ___. (THERMAL)

2. As much as I protest, the government seems to have turned a deaf ear and ___ my house. (PROPERTY)

3. One thing we must never forget as scientists is to never be ___ by orthodox methods of
experimentation. (BOUND)

4. The star newcomer of The Daily Bugle, Mary Jane, left her promising journalist career after being
called a ___ by the senior whom she most admired, Peter Parker. (HACK)

5. I will forever be thankful to the companionship I had as they have always been there in my darkest
times, ___ motivated to aid a friend in need. (TRUE)
6. It was 2 months ago that Bing discovered that his being attracted to intellect could be defined by the
term ___. (SEX)

7. As a citizen of the new age, I strongly support ___’s mission to put an end to racist extremists and
dictatorship. (FASCISM)

8. Seeing that Banana Cafe Beans has stopped increasing in stock values for the past 7 months, investors
think that the company has gone ___. (GROW)

9. The ___ dedication and no-nonsense attitude has helped David Goggins achieve several astonishing
milestones in his life. (FLAG)

10. Though Ocean enjoys hanging out with her friends, her time with the guitar was ___. (SACRED)

BONUS: With too many deadlines at hand and a sore body from intense cycling, Chillin almost gave in to
a good night’s sleep. But no, he mustered up all his determination and set aside his ___ self to present
you this week’s dose of word formations. (PUSSY)

1. I will never forget that ___ day when I first set foot in the most prestigious school in America. (RED)

2. Nothing can beat a freshly-made ___ glass in the middle of the summer, not even lemonade.
(ORANGE)

3. Military soldiers must have the stomach to fight and under no circumstances should they be ___ upon
getting into a battle. (YELLOW)

4. In 2018, the multi-million company Starbucks was allegedly accused of ___ by including a built-in non-
recyclable drinking straw that contained more plastic than its previous drinking cups. (GREEN)

5. She considered herself a ___ fan of Cardi B; she has never missed a single of the singer's concert
despite getting her skull crushed by a microphone. (BLUE)

6. There still exists an antediluvian belief about women that nursing and secretarial work are ___ jobs
and are often undervalued in our modern society. (PINK)

7. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness about social efforts in reclaiming and developing ___
sites, turning them into inhabitable land for homeless people to rebuild their lives. (BROWN)

8. The deceivingly rewarding policies are an attempt by the factory to lure ___ into continuing working in
spite of the strike. (BLACK)

9. With our new partnership, we are now able to offer the long-awaited five-star, ___ service, which
ensures that every minute detail is considered, providing our customers the fullest pleasure they deserve.
(WHITE)

1. It is ___ clear that Lee Oswald was responsible for the assassination of the president owing to his self-
contradicting testimonies. (CONTROVERSY)
2. "O Romeo" is one such famous example of ___ of Juliet by the balcony featured in the play "Romeo
and Juliet". (SOLO)

3. The weary drivers were shouting and ___ with "visually appealing" hand signals at the construction
workers who had blocked the road. (GESTURE)

4. With a view to fight off the competition of cotton fabrícs from the Middle East and India, local
producers put an ___ on foreign textiles and drastically improved the productivity and sewing
machineries. (BAR)

5. One example of her ___ is that she never purchases an item unless it is under $20, which she generally
achieves by accumulating stacks of coupons and vouchers. (SYNC)

6. Ancient soothsayers regularly rely on ___ and palmistry to predict one's future, practices that have
zero scientific basis yet still deceive unsuspecting laymen every year. (PHYSICS)

7. Greedy cuts in the ___ of steel beams by the mayor has led to stagnations in upgrading underground
infrastructure, which subsequently halted commuters' use of public transportations. (CURE)

8. The defendant was obliged to deliver a ___ account of what had occurred in that murderous night.
(BLOW)

9. Inconvenient location notwithstanding, the local coffee shop still attracts a mixed ___ of food bloggers,
tourists, and local citizens. (CLIENT)

10. Under a specific configuration of lighting, peacock feathers with seemingly underwhelming colors can
start to shimmer with an amazing ___, brilliantly switching from light emerald to oceanic blue. (IRIS)

1. It’s about time you stopped being ____ and plucked up the courage to ask her out. (LIVER)

2. The current ____ trend is that Japan's population is decreasing progressively, which has slowly
become a population crisis. (GRAPH)

3. “I don’t know man, he just looked so _____ after having been rejected by all the Sharks. Like, I have
never seen him so sad before.” (FALL)

4. The Roman numerals are some of the most well-known ____ in the world and are used for multiple
purposes. (IDEA)

5. A ____ Taylor Swift fan, she claimed that she had never missed a live concert in her entire life. (BLUE)

6. The stunning ________ of ‘Love Story’ had, of course, been made more likely by the prevailing ovation
from the audience of the 2022 English Gala. (DENOTE)

7. Five ____ have been caught red-handed for betraying the motherland. (FIVE)
8. Bing might have a case of __________ disorder because he doesn’t feel that his thoughts and feelings
are actually his. (PERSON)

9. Despite the entire family rooting for me, I _____ walked to the auditorium and did my worst so as to
fail this singing competition. (LACK)

10. As a marine biologist dedicate to the study of jellyfish, through years worth of data collected from
observing jellyfish’s absorption and re-emission of natural light, I can finally conclude my research that
jellyfish are actually _______ creatures (BIOLOGY)

1. To aim for a net-zero economy in the future, industrial ___ needs to be prioritized and implemented
by the government. (C)

2. Internet connections becoming commonplace in work offices means that employees are more likely to
___, which is alarming since little work is being done while employees spend all their time on social
media. (Au)

3. Why don't you switch to ___ farming? Not only will you use less water and less land, you won't have
to worry about getting dirt and soil all over yourself! (H)

4. The story of the West was told as a series of trimuphs – the victory of civilization over ___, an
inspirational epic, in which greed and cruelty were often glossed over as courage. (Ba)

5. I cannot sleep with the constant ___ from the church bell across the street. They must've thought
Jesus was coming or whatnot. (Sn)

6. If your household wants to celebrate 4th of July without anyone's fingers being amputated, fireworks
should only be operated by professional ___ to ensure that safety measures are followed. (Tc)

7. As a society, people should appreciate culture diversity and love neighbors from far and wide, and any
form of ___ and nationalism must be condemned. (Xe)

8. This new wave of protests against the French government is merely a ___ of the Boston Tea Party. (Ac)

9. 1944 saw the advent of the color television, finally putting an end to the boring, ___ TV shows. (Cr)

10. Being a successful politician, he is regularly the target of ___ attempting to rake over his old ashes in
order to defame him. (Sc)

1. I sometimes have to reschedule my entire afternoon just to attend my manager's ___ meetings.
(PROMPT)

2. Given the sudden explosion in technological development, A.I. programming has become an
enormous ___. (SPIN)

3. Jake, being an extreme right-winger himself, generally believes in a ___ government where the state
plays an all-important role in controlling a nation's economy. (DIRECT)
4. Having no fixed abode, the couple has no choice but to go back to their ___ panhandling lifestyle.
(QUOTE)

5. This mutated strain of salmonella is fortunately ___ and cannot kick-start a new epidemic. (VIRUS)

6. African American Vernacular English is often used as the counter-argument to ___, as demonstrated
by the comprehesibility of spoken English notwithstanding the lack of proper grammar. (SCRIPT)

7. The secret ingredient of our recipe has been leaked. Someone must have ___ our discussion yesterday.
(DROP)

8. The ancient ___ answered that the raven she saw was a bad omen and that she should pay him $10 to
prevent terrible prophecies of her from happening. (SAY)

9. I was leisurely ___ the park after getting all my Word Formation homework done. (AMBULANCE)

10. Business owners are sick of the fact that their customers ___ at their physical stores and then buy
their products online to receive special offers and discounts. (SHOP)

1. Don't be surprised. This is America, the country built on racism. Equality, here, is a mere ___. (FACE)

2. The problems has existed long before he became CEO, but the fact that indiscipline started to worsen
when he gave his staff the freedom to make any important decisions proves that his ___ attitude is no
good for the company. (LET)

3. I really admire her elegance and ___ upon being confronted with any perilous circumstances. (FROST)

4. Her company specializes in luxury ___ clothes, and last year she even got a collection of such ready-to-
wear clothes on exhibition in Milan. (PORT)

5. Nobody expected his dramatical political ___ from Democracy to Republic despite being an avid fan of
Barack Obama for many years. (VOLT)

6. After sitting in the waiting room for who knows how long, my friends finally ___ at the correct location
I gave them. (RENDER)

7. Sometimes, people should go back the 1980s when phones weren't invented, and our little group of
friends would have a quiet ___ on the sidewalk. (TAT (lit. HEAD))

8. The Geneva Conventions was described as a piece of ___ humanitarian legislations, covering
everything necessary to prevent mistreatment of combatants. (MANTLE)

9. The young composer Mozart at the time considered himself a ___ of Haydn. (PROTECT)

10. People do not understand the tremendous sense of ___ when you meet another climber after
climbing all alone for hours. (COMRADE)
BONUS: "I absolutely despise my French neighbor. He is such a typical stinky French person with his
baguettes and croissants, ___ every opportunity he gets with all those "oui oui ratatouille" kinds of
bollocks." "I think it's high time you defenestrated your prejudice already 😐 " (PARLEY)

1. "Eureka!" Archimedes ___ upon discovering a way to determine the purity of gold. (JACK)

2. The domestic turkey was re-introduced into North America from Britain, taken there ___ by the
colonists of New England and Virginia (CIRCLE)

3. It's nothing unusual, I just stumbled upon the word "kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate" by ___ in Bomb
Party. (SERENE)

4. Organizing excursions for elementary students proves to be a real ___ for working parents. (DRUM)

5. Don't think that I am frightened of those big, ___ words that you utter every single minute just
because I'm German. You don't know anything scary about the German language, do you? (PEDAL)

6. There are certain ___ made against the practice of outlawing the abortion procedure, mostly in favor
of women's rights to their own body. (ADVERSE)

7. After making such controversial statements, it appears that he has to ___ himself with the investors so
that they would not abandon the company. (GRACE)

8. The conclusion that the boundaries were not ___ by the Republican leader is also supported by an
analysis of how the guidelines worked in actual practice. (SALAMANDER)

9. The #1 ranking movie this week is an ___ of the outrageous conditions of impoverished children
collecting cocoa beans. (POSE)

10. Notwithstanding the continuous protests, politicians have resorted to ___ in an attempt to lobby for
an even lower minimum wage. (BRINK)

1. The start of Pride Month unfortunately initiates a rising trend of ___ across multiple media platforms.
(BASHFUL)

2. To finish signing up, please enter an 8-character ___ password, which must contain letters and
numbers and no symbols. (NUMBER)

3. First of all, the term "intellectual Flat Earther" makes no sense, not to say a total ___. (MORON)

4. After Levan's execution and 200 years of constant rejection from the government, a statue was finally
erected to mark the ___ of the activist's death. (TEN)

5. There has been a collective ___ to hate speech among social media followers when they are
constantly and repeatedly exposed to hatred. (SENSE)

6. I pay tribute to them for all their hard work and ___ efforts to keep this company alive. (FATIGUE)
7. This so-called state-of-the-art painting is no different than the kinds of ___ paintings sold in street
markets. (ROAD)

8. The king abdicated, the entire country fell into the dark ages of the ___ period. (REIGN)

9. She was mockingly called a ___ for speaking in a country accent in the middle of an urban city. (HILL)

10. He is the all-time famous ____ of The New York Times; he has been speedily solving their crosswords
since day one. (VERB)

for 30 years, and yet a ___ like Harron became successful and knocked out all previous competitors.
(LATE)

2. Black Friday finally arrived, local supermarkets once again welcome the busy ___ of fanatic holiday
shoppers. (TO)

3. Seamen was certainly a ___; it was not ununsual for him to spend time in avant-garde urban cities and
visit top-of-the-line fashion stores. (TOWN)

4. McPaisleigh is the family's youngest sibling, so naturally she has to wear a lot of ___ from her older
siblings. (HAND)

5. After hours and hours of arguments that lead to nowhere, the politicians have unnecessarily deceived
themselves into a ___. (SACK)

6. Matt Walsh is described by mainstream media as a ___ Conservative who will never abandon his
heteronormative idée fixe. (WOOL)

7. You shouldn't be buying ___ drugs for every single minor health problems of yours, at least consult a
doctor and get a prescription first. (COUNT)

8. He is a down-to-earth ___ who can do almost anything, if you ask me, from fixing toilets to playing the
piano! (TRADE)

9. Nowadays, we cannot but come across ___ stories where people turn their life around by winning the
lottery jackpot, completely ignoring the fact that such occurrence would happen once in a blue moon.
(RICH)

10. Last week, the people of the United States saw the ___ political debate that will only progress with
increasing violence as lawmakers grapple with government spending. (KNOCK)

11. Born in a business family, she considered herself a ___ for not being able to become a successful
entrepreneur. (WELL)

12. The downtown area near the landfill was a ___ of nothing but abandoned buildings and decay.
(LAND)
13. The press drowned the Parliament's mailbox with a torrent of questions regarding the government's
role ___ the environment. (VISA)

14. "I'm always afraid you're all of a sudden going to come up with some ___ idea, so I'd like to know
about it ahead of time," Hoshino said. (WALL)

15. We are, of course, very reckless, ___ people, but in wartime, that attitude has definitely caused some
pains. (LUCK // DEVIL)

16. That glad-hander in the other class sometimes try to gather friends with a ___ slap in the back, even
when he has never seen that person before. (HAIL)

17. It is often said that people are not interested in most recent political meetings, simply because they
do not deal with ___ issues. (BUTTER)

18. "People will do anything to get whatever they want these days, taking no notice of all the damage
they've done to their surroundings. What a sad reality, isn't it?" – "Well, it's a ___ world out there."
(DOG)

19. Both engines caught fire, the pilot has no choice but to make a ___ decision and turn the entire plane
upside down (it didn't work, everyone died). (PANTS)

20. To our surprise, Mark came on stage and delivered his speech with careful ___ in spite of all our
preconceptions about him. (FACT)

BONUS: "These flowers look gorgeous! What's the name of them?" – "Oh, they are ___." – "What the f▇
▇▇?" (GATE)