Art of the Personal Essay Sentences
pummeling - ANSWER: "I hear the smack of a hand ______ his
shoulders, the sound varying according as
it comes down flat and cupped."
hawking - ANSWER: "Then think of the various cries of the man selling drinks, and the
one selling sausages and the other selling pastries, and all the ones ______ for the
catering shops, each publicizing his wares with a distinctive cry of his own."
hawking - ANSWER: "When we recline at table one slave wipes up the ______, another
crouches to take up the leavings of the drunks."
ferment - ANSWER: "His mind is in a ______. It is that which
needs to be set at peace."
piqued - ANSWER: "Yet every now and then ambition rears its head again in the retreat
into which we were really driven by our apprehensions and our waning interest; for our
ambition did not cease because it had been rooted out, but merely because it had tired
—or become ______, perhaps, at its lack of success."
lit - ANSWER: "We, too, are ______ and put out."
exploited - ANSWER: "His soul, I am convinced, has returned to the heavens whence it
came, not because he commanded great armies—mad Cambyses did that, and ______
his madness to good effect—but because of his singular moderation and piety."
castigate - ANSWER: "Your own attitude is consequently as right
as can be, in my judgment; you do not
choose to have your slaves fear you, you
use words to ______ them."
caprice - ANSWER: "It is our daintiness that drives us to distraction, so that anything
that does not meet our ______ provokes our wrath."
impious - ANSWER: "Nor do we visit their tombs and monuments or keep solemn
wakes at their bodies. Our laws do not permit such practices because it is an ______
thing to mourn for those who are so quickly translated to a better region and a divine
lot."
prognostic - ANSWER: "This double body and these several limbs,
, connected with a single head, might well furnish a favorable ______ to the king that he
will maintain under the union of his laws these various parts and factions of our state."
blitheness - ANSWER: "In my youth I needed to warn and urge
myself to stick to my duty: ______ and
health do not go so well, as they say, with
these wise and serious reflections."
paramour - ANSWER: "No woman who savors the taste of it, would want to have the
place of a mistress or ______ to her husband."
tumultuous - ANSWER: "There is naturally strife and wrangling between them and us:
the closest communion we have with them is still ______ and tempestuous."
lasciviousness - ANSWER: "Iniquitous appraisal of vices! Both we and
they are capable of a thousand corruptions
more harmful and unnatural than ______."
railing - ANSWER: "Since we cannot attain to greatness, let us
have our revenge by ______ at it."
sequestrated - ANSWER: "If I were but in his condition, I should think it hard measure,
without being convinced of any crime, to be ______ from it, and made one of the
principal officers of state."
fop - ANSWER: "This is the character that Seneca gives of this hyperbolical ______,
whom we stand amazed at, and yet there are very few men who are not in some things,
and to some degrees, grandiose."
ostentation - ANSWER: "I may safely say that all the ______ of our
grandees is just like a train, of no use in the world, but horribly cumbersome and
incommodious."
penury - ANSWER: "But, yet with most of them it was much otherwise; and they fell
perpetually into such miserable ______, that they were forced to devour or squeeze
most of their friends and servants, to cheat with infamous projects, to ransack and
pillage all their provinces."
raillery - ANSWER: "He says very handsomely in his own excuse, that he does not act
for gain, that he indulges an innocent pleasure in it; and that it is better to pass away an
evening in this manner than in gaming and drinking: but at the same time says, with a
very agreeable ______ upon himself, that if his
name should be known, the ill-mannered world might call him, 'the ass in the lion‟s
skin.'"
pummeling - ANSWER: "I hear the smack of a hand ______ his
shoulders, the sound varying according as
it comes down flat and cupped."
hawking - ANSWER: "Then think of the various cries of the man selling drinks, and the
one selling sausages and the other selling pastries, and all the ones ______ for the
catering shops, each publicizing his wares with a distinctive cry of his own."
hawking - ANSWER: "When we recline at table one slave wipes up the ______, another
crouches to take up the leavings of the drunks."
ferment - ANSWER: "His mind is in a ______. It is that which
needs to be set at peace."
piqued - ANSWER: "Yet every now and then ambition rears its head again in the retreat
into which we were really driven by our apprehensions and our waning interest; for our
ambition did not cease because it had been rooted out, but merely because it had tired
—or become ______, perhaps, at its lack of success."
lit - ANSWER: "We, too, are ______ and put out."
exploited - ANSWER: "His soul, I am convinced, has returned to the heavens whence it
came, not because he commanded great armies—mad Cambyses did that, and ______
his madness to good effect—but because of his singular moderation and piety."
castigate - ANSWER: "Your own attitude is consequently as right
as can be, in my judgment; you do not
choose to have your slaves fear you, you
use words to ______ them."
caprice - ANSWER: "It is our daintiness that drives us to distraction, so that anything
that does not meet our ______ provokes our wrath."
impious - ANSWER: "Nor do we visit their tombs and monuments or keep solemn
wakes at their bodies. Our laws do not permit such practices because it is an ______
thing to mourn for those who are so quickly translated to a better region and a divine
lot."
prognostic - ANSWER: "This double body and these several limbs,
, connected with a single head, might well furnish a favorable ______ to the king that he
will maintain under the union of his laws these various parts and factions of our state."
blitheness - ANSWER: "In my youth I needed to warn and urge
myself to stick to my duty: ______ and
health do not go so well, as they say, with
these wise and serious reflections."
paramour - ANSWER: "No woman who savors the taste of it, would want to have the
place of a mistress or ______ to her husband."
tumultuous - ANSWER: "There is naturally strife and wrangling between them and us:
the closest communion we have with them is still ______ and tempestuous."
lasciviousness - ANSWER: "Iniquitous appraisal of vices! Both we and
they are capable of a thousand corruptions
more harmful and unnatural than ______."
railing - ANSWER: "Since we cannot attain to greatness, let us
have our revenge by ______ at it."
sequestrated - ANSWER: "If I were but in his condition, I should think it hard measure,
without being convinced of any crime, to be ______ from it, and made one of the
principal officers of state."
fop - ANSWER: "This is the character that Seneca gives of this hyperbolical ______,
whom we stand amazed at, and yet there are very few men who are not in some things,
and to some degrees, grandiose."
ostentation - ANSWER: "I may safely say that all the ______ of our
grandees is just like a train, of no use in the world, but horribly cumbersome and
incommodious."
penury - ANSWER: "But, yet with most of them it was much otherwise; and they fell
perpetually into such miserable ______, that they were forced to devour or squeeze
most of their friends and servants, to cheat with infamous projects, to ransack and
pillage all their provinces."
raillery - ANSWER: "He says very handsomely in his own excuse, that he does not act
for gain, that he indulges an innocent pleasure in it; and that it is better to pass away an
evening in this manner than in gaming and drinking: but at the same time says, with a
very agreeable ______ upon himself, that if his
name should be known, the ill-mannered world might call him, 'the ass in the lion‟s
skin.'"
