- 1. _________- somebody mischievous
“Why that old __________________!”
embedded
A) solemn
B) rouge
C) liable
D) entrails
- 2. _________- twisted and full of knots
“Then I turned and headed for a big _________ liveoak tree that stood in a clear patch of ground down the draw apiece.”
A) inquired
B) sumptuous
C) embedded
D) gnarled
- 3. ________- being serious in appearance or behavior
“Lisbeth slipped to the ground and stood staring at me with those big ___________ eyes while her grandpa dismounted.”
A) coaxed
B) gnarled
C) solemn
D) sumptuous
- 4. _______________- try to find out facts by asking something
“He’d____________ around about it in Salt Licks, and Bud Searcy had told him that we had the dog.”
A) inquired
B) embedded
C) coaxed
D) gnarled
- 5. ___________- magnificent or grand in appearance
“So in spite of the fact that Little Arliss had caused me to make a bad shot, we had us a real _____________ supper that night.”
A) solemn
B) sumptuous
C) mournful
D) rouge
- 6. ______________- to become deeply and solidly lodged in something
“I searched his feet and pulled out a long mesquite thorn that had become ___________between his toes.”
A) embedded
B) entrails
C) liable
D) coaxed
- 7. __________- an animal’s or person’s internal organs
“ Carefully, I eased his ____________ back into place.”
A) gnarled
B) rouge
C) coaxed
D) entrails
- 8. ___________- expressing or feeling deep sadness
“It was the most ___________ howl I ever heard.”
A) gnarled
B) liable
C) mournful
D) solemn
- 9. ____________- to persuade somebody gently to do something
“I knelt beside him and __________ him out from under the rocks.”
A) coaxed
B) inquired
C) embedded
D) solemn
- 10. ____________- likely to experience or do something
“They were sure ______________ to shoot him.”
A) gnarled
B) inquired
C) liable
D) coaxed
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