For the Week ending 03/18/11
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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Good-natured; good-hearted; friendly; genial; possessing an affable and approachable disposition
I'd made a lot of friends during my stay in New York, the city being crammed with _______ lads who one and all extended a welcoming hand to the stranger in their midst. |
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playful
Fiction . . . now makes language the center of its reflexive concern, and explodes in _______, parodic, ironic forms. |
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frolicsome; roguish
The only thing I feel sure about is that she's _______, and altogether delightful. |
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of, relating to, or befitting an imp; mischievous
His _______ sense of humor was allied to an inability to avert his eyes whenever the emperor appeared without clothes. |
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given to joking; merry; waggish, merry
He considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head through the door to make _______ remarks. |