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(CK) Shane 1
Question | Answer | |
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deft | All Shane's movements were sure and _____, and with a quick precision he flipped down his sleeves and picked up his hat. | very precise, very skilled |
intangible | Something cold, terrifying, and _____ was there in the air between Shane and me. | something you cannot see or explain |
fraternity | Father and Shane looked at each other, measuring the other in an unspoken _____ of adult knowledge beyond my reach. | brotherhood, a bond between men |
gravely | Shane seemed very serious and nodded at me _____ over his heaped-up plate. | very seriously, solemnly, soberly |
evoked | A warmth erased once and forever the feeling of sudden chill terror that our visitor had _____ in me. | brought out; called up |
pent | All the _____ up silence of Father and Shane was being shattered in Father's wonderful shout. | confined; bottled up; held in |
discernible | Not another _____ movement did he make. | capable of being seen; noticed; recognized |
bantering | Shane turned to Mother and his voice took on a _____ tone. | teasing; talking in a joking way |
wry | He would look down at himself and any tool he happened to have in his hands as if in _____ amusement at what he was doing. | ironic; in an amusing way |
alien | Shane's clothes were dirty, yet a magnificence remained and with it a hint of manners _____ to my limited boy's experience. | foreign, different |