1. Possessed of a light-hearted approach to life, Winnie thought that those who were _________ in regards to values and mores missed out on a certain liveliness and spontaneity.
2. After a second _________ attempt by Margulies to make a simple shot, the coach put him on the bench for the rest of the game.
3. While he says that he did not mean to kill, some feel that his actions are _________ murder.
4. For most of the 20th century, American political contentions reflected pragmatic rather than ideological differences; candidate debates centered around whether programs were _________.
5. Though considered a somewhat somber drama at the time of its release in 1975, the film Shampoo, about a philandering hairdresser, now seems more the _________ comedy.
6. During the German occupation of France, the draconian measures of the occupiers met armed resistance from civilian _________, inspired by desperate conditions to fight in their own streets.
7. Representative government arose in part from dissatisfaction with too many monarchs making _________ decisions without regard for precedents.
8. Because the Lewis and Clark expedition through the West was conceived primarily as a mapping project, government officials were _________ by the wealth of information on a myriad of topics that the explorers gathered.
9. Only by ignoring Afghanistan’s long history as a military quagmire could pundits pontificate that fresh infusions of men and material would lead to _________ victory.
10. Geneticists find Iceland a living laboratory for the study of _________ because virtually all of its current 300,000 citizens descend from less than a thousand Icelanders who survived the medieval Black Death.