Short Story Vocabulary and Sentence Application
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- Q1sensitive, keen, sharpprofoundamicabaleacuteremuneration30sEditDelete
- Q2a hiding of one's true feelings or purposescommiserationbellicosedissimulationdissemble30sEditDelete
- Q3seeing beyond what is obviousprofoundprocuredsagacitysuavity30sEditDelete
- Q4high intelligence and sound judgementderisionsatiristsagacityconducive30sEditDelete
- Q5a narrow openingcreviceacutecrevasseconducive30sEditDelete
- Q6graceful, politescantlingsagacityserenestsuavity30sEditDelete
- Q7energetic hand or arm movementsbellicosegesticulationscantlingsdeathwatches30sEditDelete
- Q8contempt; ridiculemaudlinexpletivesderisionimpropriety30sEditDelete
- Q9beetles that burrow into wood and make tapping sounds, which some people believe are a sign of approaching deathdeathbeetlesdeathwatchesscantlingsexpletives30sEditDelete
- Q10a small beam or timbercreviceconducivescantlingequity30sEditDelete
- Q11conceal under a false appearance; disguiseimpassibledissemblesagacitydissimulation30sEditDelete
- Q12Above all was the sense of hearing _____________deathwatchesprofoundacuteserenest30sEditDelete
- Q13You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what __________________ I went to work.suavitydissimulationderisionsagacity30sEditDelete
- Q14So you see he would have been a very _____________ old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked upon him while he slept.bellicoseprofoundacuteamicable30sEditDelete
- Q15Never, before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers - of my _____________.suavityacutesagacityserenest30sEditDelete
- Q16He was still sitting up in the bed, listening: - just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the ____________________ in the wallcrevicesgesticulationsscantlingsdeathwatches30sEditDelete
- Q17I resolved to open a little - a very little ___________ in the lantern.acutederisiondeathwatchescrevice30sEditDelete
- Q18I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the __________________.gesticulationsdeathwatchesexpletivesscantlings30sEditDelete
- Q19There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect __________________, as officers of the police.serenestsagacitysuavityamicable30sEditDelete
- Q20I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent ____________________________; but the noise steadily increased.deathwatchesgesticulationsscantlingsexpletives30sEditDelete