“It felt like aeons since I last saw my best friend.”

“After the first wave of attack failed, the army resorted to ancillary measures, such as air and naval assault.”

“My friends and I speak in argot that only we can understand.”

“The comedian is known for his inappropriate and bawdy jokes.

“My coach has chimerical expectations if he thinks I can run the 40-yard dash in under 4.5 seconds!”

“Despite a helicopter crash that nearly killed several Navy Seal, the covert operation to kill Osama Bin Laden was successful.”

“The Vikings despoiled the village after a heavy attack.”

“While revising my paper, I elided unnecessary sentences.”

“The drunken man elided his vowels when he spoke.”

“The ornery old man sat in his rocking chair with a shotgun to keep people from encroaching upon on his property.”

“My exacting boss wants everything perfect before we open in the morning.”

“The man genuflected in prayer after surviving the shipwreck.”

“Romeo and Juliet blindly idealized each other.”

“Before exams, I lucubrate until the late hours of the night.”

“We pointlessly argued in circles over a moot topic.”

“I’d like to moot the idea that we break for lunch!”

“The artist used ocher to achieve an earthen color in the landscape.”

“I grudgingly completed my chores in a perfunctory manner.”

“Because my friend is so impatient and negative, she has a querulous attitude.”

“The playoff team was in the top tier of the NFL.”

“We faced a top-tiered team in the semi-finals of the tournament.”

Assignment Show mastery of each vocabulary word by

writing a sentence that demonstrates its meaning.

Underline the vocabulary word in the sentence.

Skip lines between sentences.