demanding from; requiring immediate attention or action; critical If a policeman hears screams from a house and doesn't have time get a warrant, it's called _______ circumstances and it can justify action.

to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous; to expunge objectionable parts before publication or presentation Some have tried to _______ the Bible, to remove all references to sex.

to destroy completely; to wipe out; to cut out by surgery Heretics were often tortured to _______ beliefs that were contrary to the church.

to remove from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle Obama's gamble that America can join in the initial phase of a war and then _______ itself quickly is false wager.