Check your vocabulary

• aggravate
• flippant
• folly
• mogul
• reticent
• sullen
• vulnerable

1. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing ______congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice.
2. Brainard thought he was for a night in the open and cursed his _____ in jumping off into the desert.
3. Brainard liked the girl, felt a strange sort of pity for her, an unreasoned pity for a forlorn and lonely child, who he instinctively divined was sensitive and perhaps unhappy in spite of her _____ speech.
4. _____ people die of the cold because of poor housing and not being able to afford to heat their homes.
5. The virtue of _____, Brainard found, was admirably cultivated in these sparsely habited parts of the earth.
6. Your nasty comments _____ a bad situation.
7. The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media _____ and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change - where none exists.