Word Bank: deliberately, derision, despair, diligent, fatigue, felicitous, fervent, impudent, insolence, keen, lingered, meagerness, merit, mock, obliged, resentful, tedious, terse, treacherous, vast.
The group of friends _________ around the coffee shop long after it was closed because none of them wanted to go home yet.
lingered?
Although he claims it was an accident, I have good reason to believe that Carlos ___________ tripped the teacher.
deliberately
The _______________ of the fruit and vegetable selection at the grocery store made Mr. Chang want to shop somewhere else where produce was more plentiful.
meagerness?