1.
The owners of the bed-and-breakfast were extremely ______ totheir guests who enjoyed elegant meals prompt service andbeautifully decorated rooms.
Hospitable (adj.) means treating guests kindly and generously;being agreeable receptive or of an open mind.
2.
Homeless people often lead a(n) ______ lifestyle because they repeatedly get uprooted from the streets and alleys where they live.
Nomadic (adj.) means roaming from place to place or wandering.
3.
Lindas ______ for picking the right stocks made her a very wealthy woman.
Knack (n.) is a natural talent; a clever way of doing something.
4.
Computers and word processing software have made the art of hand-writing letters virtually ______.
Obsolete (adj.) means antiquated disused; discarded.
5.
Marco has an irresistibly ______ manner that many young womenfind charming and attractive.
Suave (adj.) means having a smooth and pleasant manner.
6.
Chantel kept the ______ of her beloved foremost in her mind asshe traveled to countries far and wide in her quest to find him.
Visage (n.) means the face countenance or look of a person.
7.
The cozy beach cottage was only ______ for summer tenantsbecause it lacked the insulation to make a winter stay comfortable.
Habitable (adj.) means acceptable for inhabiting.
8.
The settlers decided to build their town at the ______ of tworivers; that settlement became the city of Pittsburgh.
Confluence (n.) means a flowing or coming together; a gatheringor meeting together at a point or juncture; a place where twothings come together the point of juncture.
9.
Furious that Lou had lied about his references Noi ______ herdecision to promote him to assistant manager.
Rescinded (v.) means revoked.
10.
To prove your theory you need to design an experiment that willprovide ______ evidence.
Empirical (adj.) means relying on derived from or verifiable by;experimental or observational rather than theory.
