Ancient cloth makers probably could not twist flax fibers until they had dipped the fibers into water to make them ____.
  • supple
Rosita Peru, who rose to become the highest-ranking female in the television industry, was ____ recruited: Spanish language program- producers courted her persistently.
  • assiduously
The new concert hall proved to be a __________: it was costly, acoustically unsatisfactory, and far too small
  • debacle
The prosecutor termed the defendants actions _______ because there was no justification for their intentional disregard for the law.
  • indefensible
Science progresses by building on what has come before; important findings thus form the basis of ____ experiments.
  • subsequent