Jason's professor liked his creative writing piece, but thought that it was too full of __________ sayings like "the early bird gets the worm" that detracted from the work because of how overused the sayings were.

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The factory worker labored quickly and __________ to assemble automobile parts on the conveyer belt.

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During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt gave many explanatory speeches to the American public, hoping to __________ fears over the lengthening economic crisis.

During World War One, a doctor had to be removed from the frontline because the sight of so much blood made him __________.

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Although the question of the soul’s immortality was interesting to the physicist, he was not currently concerned with it, as it was __________ to the questions he was asking in his experiment on the rotation of the earth on its axis.

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Chelsea's __________ sister almost never stops talking and interrupts every conversation she overhears.

Kevin was not known for making __________ arguments, for his sentences were often labyrinthine, obscure masses of confusion.

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Robert’s words were almost always __________, having little real content and ultimately no meaning for those to whom they were directed.

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Due to the __________ of protein in his diet, Theodore was often sick due to malnutrition.

When he was nervous about an exam, Sebastian would __________ the power of God to help him know the correct answers.