1. While the colonists would eventually push westward, first, they were in for a long, difficult winter, and the main challenge was to _________ their existing resources.
2. James Joyce, the author of many novels, including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, saw deeply into the hearts of his characters, but, in a life irony as subtle yet piercing as those endured by his characters, he himself could barely _________ text well enough to proof his own galleys.
3. Emblematic of the slaughter of the First World War, 60,000 British soldiers died for naught on the first day of the battle of the Somme, literally consumed into a stew of blood and _________.
4. Forty years ago, anthropologists firmly believed that Neanderthals and modern homo sapiens never mated, but advances in genetic testing proved that incorrect — such is the _________ nature of science.
5. The daily routine of responding to lobbyists and exchanging polemics with intransigent political opponents seemed at odds with the president’s _________ tendencies.
6. A field trip was arranged so that this troupe of _________ dancers could observe the real masters of their art.
7. The exhibit is not so much a retrospective as a _________; the artist’s weaker early work is glossed over, and any evidence of his ultimate dissolution is absent entirely.
8. After a long, hard practice in the summer sun, the players were visibly _________.
9. Nothing evoked memories of her grandmother’s house like the _________ of scents associated with the holiday feast.
10. Unlike the politician’s earlier evasions and equivocations, this latest statement is a _________ lie.