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 __________."