For the Week ending 8/17/12
Transient, Fleeting
prepared by
ANDREW JAMIESON, M.D.
Vancouver, WA
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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pertaining to air, or having a form similar to that of air; light, unsubstantial, or unstable
As a rule the arteries are empty after death, and Praxagoras believed that they were filled with an _______ fluid, a sort of pneuma, which was responsible for their pulsation. |
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delicate, light, or flimsy; tenuous, filmy
A trip to the moon on _______ wings…it was just one of those things. |
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he condition or quality of being completely forgotten; the state of being disregarded
So, the thought of our greatest and most treasured pieces of literature being burned into _______ is supremely frightening. |
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capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken
It is a place so tranquil, so steeped in _______ scenes of beauty, it defies the popular cobwebs of conflict that seem not so long ago. |
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lifeless, dull or banal; having lost its life and spirit; dead
Los Angeles has long been known as a _______ cultural wasteland. |