alienate

fallow

cowardly

of or related to cooking or the kitchen

to expunge, remove

to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

inactive

reddish-yellow

to plow but not seed

adversary on the field

sure to alienate the neighbors

moves that alienate him

the artifice she used

nothing but a craven

deleted evidence of her involvement

told him to delete the error

his unexpected demise

the attention that exhilarated him

told him to fallow

didn’t intend to alienate

coerce his acquaintances

a craven deed

exhilarated by the sight

exhilarated all her friends

Although she knew that she risked _____ her constituency, Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin cast the only dissenting vote in the decision to enter World War II.

The famous escape artist Harry Houdini worked tirelessly to perfect _____ such as the trick in which he escaped from a locked trunk under water.

Wise mothers know that they cannot _____ their children to eat; instead, they use gentle persuasion and tempting foods.

U.S. citizens who are 18 years old or older have the right—perhaps the responsibility—to vote in all local, state, and federal elections, but there is no way to _____ anyone into voting.

You could call Benedict Arnold treacherous, but not _____; traitor that he was, he was brave to the end.

When his friends called him a _____ because he would not ski with them in a raging storm, he smiled calmly, secure in the belief that he was being sensible, not cowardly.

When the high school student refused to speak up to defend her unjustly accused friend, the friend called her _____, a charge the student later admitted was accurate.

After the crisis was over, Li felt ashamed of her _____ response to her neighbor’s cries for help.

Social critics are always bemoaning the _____ of good manners in the current generation of youth, forgetting that when they were young, their elders were also dismayed at the passing of manners in children.

When the family's hamster met its _____, the mother mostly felt sad for her son, who had never had a pet die before.

In his 1897 cable from London to the Associated Press, the humorist Mark Twain wrote that the reports of his _____ had been greatly exaggerated; he did not die until 1910.

She was so _____ when she read the letter announcing that her poem was chosen for an anthology that she expressed her excitement by hugging the mail carrier.

The grandeur and beauty of Yosemite National Park _____ Bea and her family, especially the remote reaches of the high mountain passes.

In that government program, farmers are paid to let their land lay _____ for a year and then plant the next year.

The farmer did not intend to _____ those acres, but by the time the heavy rains ended, it was too late to plant.

The price of soybeans was so low that the farmer considered not seeding his fields, but having _____ hurt his pride.