These days people are becoming more and more _____ about the food they eat.

Inourculture,weareaccustomedtosophisticatedprescriptiondrugscontaininga_____ofchemicalingredients

I do not mean to insult the reader by pretending that I killed, for instance, a regiment of cavalry or swallowed a battery of guns, —such _______ tales would disgrace both the hearer and the teller.

Thoughshe_____andpleaded,herefusedtogotothedance.

In “they?re all more ridiculous than a slapstick comedy” we find the use of a _________.