Can somebody help me with Chapter 14 Sentence Check #2 & Final Check for Advanced Vocabulary Skills?

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1.Anarchy - Disorder
2.Authoritarian - Favoring firm discipline
3.Depravity - Wickedness
4.Meager - Inaccurate
5.Predilection - A liking
6.Quixotic - Sensible but unfair
7.Salutary - Wholesome
8.Suppress - To keep down
9.Temerity - Recklessness
10.Turbulence - Turbulence

Sentence Check 2:

1-2. The students were so afraid of their strict, __________ principal that if they meet him in the hallway, few of them even had the __________ to day "Good Morning."
3-4. The adjective "__________" comes from a famous tale of a romantic, befuddled Spanish knight who had a(n) __________ for setting forth on impossible and sometimes ludicrous quests.
5-6. Water turns white with __________ when a swift current crashes against rocks. White-water canoeing is a challenge because a lightweight, frail canoe gives only __________ protection.
7-8. Cutting down on fats is __________, but if your diet is usually healthful, having an occasional hamburger or milkshake is not a sign of __________-you needn't feel guilty.
9-10. Obedience training will not __________ your dog's natural spirit. A wolf pack does not live in a state of __________, but establishes rules of order; and dogs, like their wolf relatives, also need to learn rules of propriety.

Final Check: Is Human Nature Good or Evil?

Whether human beings are naturally good or naturally evil is an age-old debate, and how people answer this question has influenced their ideas about government. those who believe that a(n) (1)__________ toward evil is inborn and immutable tend to think that a government must be (2)__________: strong, with laws that are strict and strictly enforced. They are not misanthropes, they insist-simply realists who know that people are basically devious and corrupt and cannot change. Under a weak government, they argue (3)__________ with result: humanity will, on the whole, behave viciously and brutality.
In contrast are those who believe that human beings are born good and would remain good if powerful governments did not (4)__________ their freedom. They argue that when a government crushes freedom, it also subjugates basic human decency, and therefore all governments should contract and become weak, with scanty laws-just a bare minimum of rules to keep things running smoothly. One extreme view actually favors (5)__________: no government and no laws. Anarchists are often accused of recommending chaotic (6)__________, of at best of being (7)__________ idealists. They respond, though, that the effects would be (8)__________, a healthy society.
The debate remains unsettled. Not surprisingly, evidence favoring total absence of government is (9)__________, since societies see it as risky' and few of them, if any, have had the (10)__________ to try it. But the human experience with all-powerful governments-from the tyrants of centuries past to the dictatorships of our own time-has not been encouraging. As in so many disputes, we may feel that the most sagacious decision is to take a middle ground.

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1. authoritarian
2. temerity
3. quixotic
4. predilection
5. turbulence
6. meager
7. salutary
8. depravity
9. suppress
10. anarchy

1. predilection
2. authoritarian
3. depravity
4. suppress
5. anarchy
6. turbulence
7. quixotic
8. salutary
9. meager
10. temerity