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1. After a period of protracted disuse, a muscle will atrophy, _____ both its strength and the ability to perform its former function.

2. When Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, many people expected Lloyd George to resign because his _____ tendencies made him an unsuitable leader during a time of conflict.

3. The chairperson, who is a specialist in French history, is a _____ speaker whose lectures on the French Revolution completely _____ studnets

4. There are many dialects of English with radically different pronunciations of the same word, but the spelling of these words is _____.

5. The governor’s intolerance of _____ among his aides was intensified by his insistence upon total _____ from all.

6. Even though he is a leading authority on the French Revolution, the chairperson of the department is a _____ speaker whose lectures on even the most exciting aspect of that historical period cause students to yawn and fidget.

7. The quarterback’s injury was very painful but not _____, and he managed to _____ the game in spite of it.

8. There is no _____ for the United States to sign the treaty since there is every reason to believe no other nation intends to honor its provisions

9. The conductor’s choice of tempo seemed entirely _____, so that each successive movement of the piece seemed to have no necessary connection to what had come before.

10. Although the conditions in which she chooses to live to suggest that she is miserly, her contributions to charities show that she is _____.

11. The report issued by the committee was completely _____, extolling in great detail the plan’s strengths but failing to mention its _____.

12. The plot of the movie was extremely complicated and included many minor characters _____ to the central events.