Part II.
a. mercenary d. arbitrary g. adamant j. encounter
b. infirmity e. zeal h. eccentric
c. taint f. sabotage i. retort
____ 1. The spy unit attempted to ___ the plan to capture the president on Labor Day.
____ 2. The commanding officer was ___ that they not shed blood during the mission, cost what
it may in regard to convenience.
____ 3. The opportunity to put their specialized training to use made the five men of the unit feel
great ___ to accomplish their mission.
____ 4. One of the spies, Brad, had lost a friend on his last mission, and this he allowed to ___
his life and his work. He could barely focus on spycraft, so eaten up was he with revenge.
____ 5. His teammates dismissed his extraordinary bloodlust as merely ___ behavior; but they
were about to discover that they had underestimated him.
____ 6. Brad’s desire for revenge only grew, and soon became a(n) ___ of the mind.
____ 7. In preparation, Brad targeted any possible threat to the mission with ___ indifference,
seeming to make no distinction between friend and foe.
____ 8. The others were familiar with ___ soldiers and spies, who would sell out to the highest
bidder, but Brad wasn’t concerned with money. It was about getting even, and it compromised the mission.
____ 9. Their mission that day became known as the Labor Day ___ , when the spies came
face-to-face with a terrorist organization, and only through the inexperience of the
terrorists did the president survive.
___ 10. When asked how such an event could have been allowed to happen, the usually witty
commanding officer’s unsatisfactory ___ was, “Sometimes you make a mistake, and you have to deal with the consequences forever. And sometimes you make a mistake, and you don't have to deal with those consequences.”
