1. Greed led to his downfall.

2. The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market.

3. I am not greed but I envy.

4. Truth fears not the flames of slander and injustice.

5. Mary spoke with blithe certainty about her future.

6. When Claire left, the blithe people followed her.

7. A scrupulous politician would not lie about her business interests.

8. Prices were volatile, fluctuating between $20 and $40.

9. The international oil 5. I sank down into a voluminous armchair.

10. markets have been highly volatile since the early 1970s.

11. Not all lawyers are as scrupulous as she is.

12. Her involvement in the case was peripheral.

13. She is scrupulous to a degree.

14. She killed him to satisfy her greed

15. He wished to live in amity with his neighbour.

16. Companies are increasingly keen to contract out peripheral activities like

training.

17. There is voluminous literature on modernism and post-modernism.

18. Fund-raising is peripheral to their main activities.

19. However hedonistic or naive they may be, children have long memories.

20. The Court of Appeal has a pivotal role in the English legal system.

21. He lives in amity with his neighbours.

22. Dr. Bach is now suing the company for slander

avarice greed
pivotal crucial, important; turning point
blithe free-spirited; carefree
scrupulous careful, diligent; moral
volatile changeable; unstable; explosive
voluminous very large; spacious
peripheral on the edge; surrounding; unimportant
hedonistic pleasure-seeking; indulgent
amity friendship
slander to defame; to speak maliciously of someone