8th Grade English- ATTWN Vocabulary Sentences

conjuring

"'A _____________ trick, my dear - a very good one...'"

forte

"'As for the others, the General's ga-ga, I think, and old Wargrave's _________ is masterly inactivity.'"

exonerated

"'But I quite appreciate the fact that we are all strangers to one another and that, in those circumstances, nobody can be _______________ without the fullest proof.'"

plight

"'But I should say that it is very unlikely that a boat could reach us - even if they knew of our __________ - in under twenty-four hours - and even then only if the wind drops.'"

vindictive

"'But there was a good deal of comment at the time - nine people out of ten thought Seton was innocent and that the judge's summing up had been ______________.'"

epistolary

"'He, whoever he may be, is aware of my friendship for Lady Constance - and is familiar with her __________ style.'"

demeanor

"'I will, however ask Dr. Armstrong to observe Miss Brent's ________ very carefully.'"

sanity

"'I'd stake my reputation on your __________.'"

condone

"'I'm glad to say they did not _________ her behavior.'"

ruminated

"'Job ought to be easy enough,' he _________."

servitude

"'Landor got penal _______ for life and died on Dartmoor a year later.'"

hysteria

"'We can't cope with __________ on top of everything else.'"

perjury

"'What about your own pretty little spot of _________."

provisioned

"'Who _______ the island and made all the necessary arrangements?'"

superlatively

"A car so fantastically powerful, so ___________ beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition."

apparition

"A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an ___________."

inquest

"After all, people don't like a Coroner's _____________ even if the Coroner did acquit me of all blame!"

impious

"Almost __________ to feel that way."

obliquely

"Along the terrace, then down the slope towards the sea - ____________ - to the end of the island where loose rocks went out into the water."

abnormal

"And by now, the thoughts that ran through their brains were ____________, feverish, diseased..."

malevolently

"And his mind dwelt ___________ on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage in that very street."

indignation

"Betrayed the right amount of feeling - _______________, disgust - but no guilt, no discomfiture?"

incredulously

"Blore said ____________: 'Your mean he's homicidal?'"

domestic

"Blore said: 'I'm a ___________ sort of man.'"

stolidly

"Blore went on _____________: 'If your speaking the truth - there's only one thing to be done.'"

illegibly

"Emily Brent thought impatiently: 'So many people write their signatures quite __________.'"

inquiringly

"Every one looked _________ at Blore."

covertly

"Everybody was looking, ___________ or openly, at Emily Brent."

sagacity

"For all his ______________, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest."

surreptitious

"Four voices gave assent - and then immediately afterwards gave quick __________ glances at each other."

contradictions

"From my earliest youth I realized that my nature was a mass of ________________."

desultory

"General Macarthur and the judge had been pacing the terrace outside, exchanging ___________ comments on the political situation."

succinctly

"He did so, telling the story briefly and ___________."

preposterous

"He exclaimed: 'The whole thing is _____________ - __________!'"

quivered

"Her nostrils ___________."

oblivion

"His ___________ of them made one at least faintly uncomfortable."

contorted

"His face ___________, turned purple."

sadistic

"I have a definite ________ delight - in seeing or causing death."

scrupulous

"I have always been strictly just and ___________ in my summing up of a case."

prowling

"If he could only see who it was __________ about in the darkness."

predatory

"It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and _________."

congealed

"It was as though a sharp little gimlet had run into the solid ___________ mess of Emily Brent's brain."

hue

"It's red-brick face grew a little deeper in ______."

capricious

"Leslie was so _____________."

solicitude

"Lombard said: 'So that's the reason for your womanly _________!'"

disparagingly

"Lombard shrugged his shoulders ____________."

caustic

"Mr. Justice Wargrave, mellowed by the excellent port, was being amusing in a _________ fashion, Dr. Armstrong and Tony Marston were listening to him."

monotonous

"Mrs. Rogers had a flat __________ voice."

rancour

"No ____________ in Hugo's nature."

recrimination

"No good result can come from ______."

gusts

"Outside the rain poured down and the wind howled in great shuddering __________ against the windowpanes."

sobered

"Phillip Lombard's face changed - ______________."

exquisite

"Relief possessed Vera - enormous ___________ relief."

aversion

"She had avoided Emily Brent with a kind of shuddering ________."

stealthy

"She heard, or thought she heard, _________sounds of footsteps, the creak of stairs, the rustle of garments - but there was nothing definite and she concluded, as Blore had done earlier, that such sounds had their origin in her own imagination."

decorous

"The ___________ stroll down the beach."

frenzied

"The doctor turned back and reentered the house with the ________ butler."

verisimilitude

"The judge said: 'To give _________... Yes, and that colleague, I presume, was momentarily out of touch with you?'"

vague

"The letter he had received had been rather ________ in its terms, but there was nothing _________ about the accompanying cheque."

unobtrusively

"The mouth of the trumpet was against the wall, and Lombard, pushing it aside indicated where two or three small holes had been _________ bored through the wall."

farce

"The next move was a little like a scene in a __________."

acquitted

"The small quiet voice of Mr. Justice Wargrave said: 'One more of us ___________ - too late!'"

innocuous

"The terrace was peaceful and __________ - looking in the sunshine."

abated

"The wind had somewhat _________ but was still blowing."

gravely

"There had been a very faint smile on the thick Semitic lips of Mr. Morris as he answered ___________: "If anything illegal is proposed, you will, of course be at perfect liberty to withdraw.""

luxurious

"There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting - and an account of the ______________ modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast."

decisively

"They rested a minute on the open window, then he shook his head _____________."

reverting

"They were __________ to more bestial types."

meager

"This was a spare _________ body."

iniquitous

"Vera cried out: 'It's _________!'"

acquiesced

"Vera had _____________."

obstinately

"Vera said ________," I'm not going back to the house."

raucous

"Vera said with a ________ laugh: 'Cold? I should be colder if I were dead.'"

marooned

"Where're to be ________ here, no attention is to be paid to signals, etc."

adroitly

"________ Rogers slipped between the two women."

queer

"_________ business when you came to think of it - the whole thing was ________ - very __________."