This story is surely ____________, but it does sound like an announcement with a story behind it!
apocryphal
Many baseball reporters claim the story is ______________, but others insist on its verity.
apocryphal
Nevertheless, there is, I'm sure, a certain ____________ involved in expunging one's darkest secrets in those sealed little booths.
catharsis
There is _____________, release, and a dispersion of pent-up emotions and feelings.
catharsis
Many creatures are _____________ � most active at dusk and dawn � including some species of butterflies, bees, deer, rabbits, even house cats.
crepuscular
This species of fish may normally be a ______________ or nocturnal in its feeding and swimming behavior.
crepuscular
Taking a cookie break while studying is one of the most _______________ ways of rejuvenating the mind that I have ever discovered.
efficacious
In the past 20 years, this technology has proved ________________.
efficacious
She ______________ several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head.
estranged
It's obvious that bad character traits such as anger, jealousy, and pride ______________ a person from others.
estrange
That political party has suffered because of bitter ____________ rivalries.
internecine
The real, lasting damage of such ___________ strife is a collapse of faith in the institutional fabric.
internecine
Subatomic particles have a[n] ____________ orientation known as spin, which can point in one of two directions, conventionally called "up" and "down.
intrinsic
He is the ideal courtier. His nobility is ___________, and so he can drape himself in this purple cloak of tasteful modernity, make a cocktail of past and present, the cream of both.
intrinsic
The animal shelter has been ______________ with animal seizures this summer, reaching over-capacity levels several times.
inundated
Beatlemania took England and Europe by storm and proceeded to ___________ American teenagers.
inundate
The company has earned _______________ for responding so quickly to customers' concerns.
kudos
So it isn't as if it is going to bring a lot of extra ratings but it will certainly bring a lot of ________________ to the network that did it.
kudos
The ___________ were the same: live by the checklist; carve the routines into muscle memory; never get complacent.
maxims
It's a common ____________ that "a watched pot never boils," but that's not literally true.
maxim
The grass in the painting was a[n] _______________ shade of green.
putrid
On the way to school I saw the ___________ remains of a dead raccoon on the side of the highway.
putrid
This is because our eastern philosophy and culture teaches us to ____________ life in all its forms.
revere
The family _____________ old traditions.
reveres
Carl made a[n] ____________ comment that made the whole class laugh.
risible
The story has been simplified to the level of a cartoon, the music is portentous and the lyrics are more _____________ than profound.
risible
His wife is a disgruntled waitress at the same restaurant who chafes at the _______________ role her job demands.
servile
If it is sweet, _______________ and submissive, a new dog could bully your first dog into a life of fear and despair.
servile
So much ____________ luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche.
sybaritic
There are new luxury lodges and _______________ spas to restore the body.
sybaritic