Vocab List 4 Practice

Front

“I was in excellent spirits. The drive ahead, even the loneliness, seemed like a _______________________. But I reckoned without him.”

Back

lark

Front

I had stopped the car at a sleepy little _______________________ just across the border into Oklahoma.

Back

junction

Front

“Let me explain his appearance. There was nothing _______________________ about him. He was as drab as a mud fence."

Back

sinister

Front

“I was driving slowly, drinking it all in, when the road suddenly ended in a _______________________. In front of the barrier, HE was standing…”

Back

detour

Front

“He didn’t look up. He was staring at the ground. I stepped on the gas hard, _______________________ the wheel sharply toward him.”

Back

veering

Front

“The train was coming closer. I could hear its bell, its cry, its whistle! Still he stood there. Now I knew that he was __________________ me to my death.”

Back

beckoning

Front

“He seemed to be waiting for a lift. There were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. He was carrying a cheap, overnight bag in one hand. He was thin, _______________________ with a cap pulled down over his eyes.”

Back

nondescript

Front

Keep your eyes _______________________ on the road.

Back

peeled

Front

“This is Mrs. Adams’ _______________________, who is it you wish to speak to?”

Back

residence

Front

“I was in a lunar landscape now, the great, _______________________ mesa country of New Mexico. I drove through it with the indifference of a fly crawling over the face of the moon.

Back

arid