rift 2. abuse 3. justify 4. intimate 5. meander 6. sty 7. desultory 8. facetious 9. alchemy 10. snobbery 11. jeer 12. sinister 13. ultimatum 14. edict 15. pejorative Choose the right word to fill in the blank of the sentence. Change the form if necessary. 1. Some people comment that t here has often been an element of _______ in golf. 2. The emperor issued a(n) ______ that all of the writings by the convicted poet be destroyed. 3. In the first class, the professor said that “we do actually start class with a little bit of history from ______ to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this time”. 4. At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, _______ term for grubby money-making. 5. The tourists ________ through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and vineyards. 6. The earth convulsed uncontrollably, a _____ opened suddenly and, with a horrid sucking sound, swallowed the entire pool. 7. My life is so miserable that I have to live in the foul _____ day and night. 8. The two Palestinian factions, bitter rivals for years, have made various ________ efforts to settle their differences. 9. There was something _______ about him that she found disturbing. 10. The demonstrators _______ at the mayor as he arrived at the town for a week-long visit. 11. If you say that someone is being _____, it means you are criticizing him because he is making humorous remarks or saying something that he does not mean in a situation where he ought to be serious. 12. Some Japanese women alleged that they were verbally ____ by the American soldiers. 13. Lucy catches the time to enjoy the _______ moments with her boyfriend. 14. To the extent that Lycidas' body has been recovered, that it's been redeemed, Milton is able to ______ the ways of God to men. 15. They issued an ______ to the police to rid the area of racist attackers, or they will take the law into their own hands.