Lesson 2: celebrated, distribute, worthwhile, albeit, encourage, refine, frail, collide, energetic,

appealing, heyday, advantage, circumvent, myth, advent, contemporary, agile

1. Ships were registered abroad to ______________ employment and safety regulations.

2. The shirt is old and ______________, and the threads look ready to part.
3. Years of ballet and modern dance had made her strong and _______________.
4. She seems remarkably _____________ for a woman of 90.
5. Engineers spent many months ________________ the software.
6. Being tall gave him an _______________ over the other players.
7. The nation is adapting, _______________ slowly, to the new global economy.
8. It is a tenet of ______________ psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by
having good social networks.
9. The idea of not having to get up early every morning is rather ______________ to me.
10. He considers teaching a ______________ career.
11. The leaflets have been widely ________________.
12. The ranks of producers have swelled in recent years with the _____________ of small, computer-
based studios.
13. It was predicted that a comet would ______________ with one of the planets.
14. For a man of 80, he has a remarkably ______________ mind.
15. Teenagers forever aim to _____________ their parents’ control.
16. Contrary to popular ______________, women are not worse drivers than men.
17. Kelley was the most ______________ clown of his era.
18. If you need him on this project, you've got to make it financially ______________ for him.
19. He had a nice smile and an _____________ personality.
20. They claim that some computer games ______________ violent behavior in young children.
21. In their _____________, they sold as many records as all the other groups in the country put
together.