Short Story Vocabulary and Sentence Application
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- Q1sensitive, keen, sharpprofoundamicabaleacuteremuneration30s
- Q2a hiding of one's true feelings or purposescommiserationbellicosedissimulationdissemble30s
- Q3seeing beyond what is obviousprofoundprocuredsagacitysuavity30s
- Q4high intelligence and sound judgementderisionsatiristsagacityconducive30s
- Q5a narrow openingcreviceacutecrevasseconducive30s
- Q6graceful, politescantlingsagacityserenestsuavity30s
- Q7energetic hand or arm movementsbellicosegesticulationscantlingsdeathwatches30s
- Q8contempt; ridiculemaudlinexpletivesderisionimpropriety30s
- Q9beetles that burrow into wood and make tapping sounds, which some people believe are a sign of approaching deathdeathbeetlesdeathwatchesscantlingsexpletives30s
- Q10a small beam or timbercreviceconducivescantlingequity30s
- Q11conceal under a false appearance; disguiseimpassibledissemblesagacitydissimulation30s
- Q12Above all was the sense of hearing _____________deathwatchesprofoundacuteserenest30s
- Q13You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what __________________ I went to work.suavitydissimulationderisionsagacity30s
- 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.bellicoseprofoundacuteamicable30s
- Q15Never, before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers - of my _____________.suavityacutesagacityserenest30s