Quiz on Last Month's Words

Here are the words that were featured last month:

For each of the eight examples below, select a word from the above list that best fits the blank. Then check your answers at the end. Note that the correct answer could be any of the word forms that were featured - example: languorous, languor, languorously and so on.

1. Imagine the ........ when the first human with an AI-powered chip implanted in his or her brain--something that's likely to become a reality within just a few years--walks into a medical conference.
2. I really lost it today, using all that profanity when John gave me that terrible news during the meeting. I wish I had not used such ........ language, especially with a couple of our new hires in the room. I am so embarrassed.
3. Each time the U.S. president nominates somebody to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the media is flooded with ........ statements both in support of and against that nominee.
4. When she travels, our senior VP visits over a dozen plants and offices, spread out over several states, in less than a week. She's on her feet virtually day and night. It's not some grand and stately ......... Naturally, when she gets back, she's pretty exhausted and takes a day off to recover.
5. January 20, the day that Joe Biden took over as the nation's 46th president, also marked the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's exceptionally stirring inaugural, esp. the words "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," which remain ........ to this day.
6. At the zoo, I often see adults joining children in making all kinds of playful sounds to somehow get a stir from the lions stretched out .........
7. A certain amount of ........ invariably creeps into the "historical account" of any great battle because the author is usually someone with an allegiance to one of the two warring sides.
8. Ever since the advent of the current pandemic, conspiracy theorists have had a field day propagating all sorts of ........ explanations and theories regarding the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that started it all.

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