Check Your Vocabulary

lumber - subdue - mundane - conspicuous - dirigible - despondency

1. so it was regularly the case, the chronicles of these Babylonian Assyrian kings would describe journeys to get _____ as among the great expeditions of their life.
2. So you need to really _____ a population out there to get their _____.
3. It's also the case that when you get _____ details, it's not serving the kind of realism effect that we know from the novel.
4. It's almost a _____ consumption of information of detail.
5. Hydrogen was used as a power source for _____ before helium, which was safer.
6. The prisoner reproached himself with not having thus employed the hours he had passed in vain hopes, prayer, and _____.