1. Fill in the Blank By: Mariarel

2. Instructions In the following sentences, read carefully and use the context clues to fill in the blanks.

3. Ben was teased and humiliated by a kid in elementary school so it was no surprise that he still felt _______ towards him after so many years. Bellicose Rancor Breach

4. RANCOR

5. Sally being grounded was _________ because she disobeyed her parents and didn’t do any of her chores around the house. Decimate Altercation Retribution

7. John was upset that he got a bad grade on a test he really studied for so he got very _________ with his teacher about how he deserved a better grade. Contentious Bellicose Decimate

8. Contentious

9. The police offer was forced to become ________ with the man he pulled over for speeding because he refused to accept all the fines he needed to pay for doing so. Altercate Bellicose Breach

10. Bellicose

11. Yesterday, one of the restaurant’s staff member left the refrigerator door open, ruining a ______ of the restaurant’s food. Dissension Breach Decimate

13. David took the joke that Lauren had told him as an _____, not as a harmless joke. Affront Dissension Schism

14. Affront

15. Talking about politics can only lead to a verbal _____ between different opinions. Altercation Schism Rancor

16. Altercation

17. The first _____ in the history of Catholicism was the Orthodox church breaking from the Roman Catholic church. Decimate Schism Affront

18. Schism

19. I find the ______ about politics disturbing,I don’t enjoy hearing people discus about their different opinions interesting. Altercation Bellicose Dissension