Chapter 29 Final Check

Do you remember trying to scare yourself and everybody else when you were a kid? For instance, maybe your were a(n) ___ roller-coaster rider, closing your eyes and screaming and loving every minute.

• avid

• pacify

• transient

• mediate

• nurture

Afterward, you would ___ your still nervous stomach by quietly sipping an ice-cold Coke.

• avid

• pacify

• transient

• mediate

• nurture

If a short roller-coaster ride gave you too ___ a thrill, there was always the long-term fear of a horror movie. If the horrors it depicted were vile enough, you might be scared about going to bed for the next three months.

• avid

• pacify

• transient

• mediate

• nurture

And remember popping out from behind corners and yelling "Boo!" at your brother? The fight that followed ("You didn't scare me one bit." "Did too." "Did not." "Did too.") would go on until a grown-up ___(e)d the conflict.

• avid

• pacify

• transient

• mediate

• nurture

(Parents always seemed to be there to settle disputes among siblings or to ___ and reassure you at times when you needed support.)

• avid

• pacify

• transient

• mediate

• nurture

At other times, you and your friends probably sat around a campfire late at night, engaging in your favorite nocturnal activity-telling ghost stories. Thrilled with the horror of it all, you spoke in voices so ___ they were almost whispers.

• muted

• esteem

• evoke

• dwindle

• legacy

The storyteller who gained the most ___ was the one who could ___ the greatest terror in others.

• muted

• esteem

• evoke

• dwindle

• legacy

If anybody's fear started to ___, this expert would build it up again with the most effective story in the campfire repertoire, the story of the ghost in the outhouse, a ___ handed down from older brothers and sisters to younger ones. This traumatic story always made you so scared that you needed to go to the outhouse. But fearing the ghost there, how could you?

• muted

• esteem

• evoke

• dwindle

• legacy