(v.) to contradict, oppose, violate (Edwidge _______ d his landlady's rule against overnight guests.)

(v.) to restore, clean up (The dingy old chair, after being _______ ed, commanded the handsome price of $200.)

(n.) bitterness, discord (Though they vowed that no girl would ever come between them, Biff and Trevor could not keep _______ from overwhelming their friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely Teresa.)

(n.) a wet swampy bog; figuratively, something that traps and confuses (When Theresa lost her job, she could not get out of her financial _______ .)

(adj.) characterized by sick sentimentality (Although some nineteenth- century critics viewed Dickens's writing as _______ contemporary readers have found great emotional depth in his works.)