VOCABS TEST I (T'was a Dark and Dreary Night, Run, Boy, Run

rushed to put in her oar and roil * the waters

• to make up

• to make new

• to make muddy

hung in precarious* balance

• dangerously cooked

• dangerously attractive

• dangerously unstable

the fence was much too formidable * an obstacle

• large

• difficult

• new

the hurt look and humiliation*

• joy

• shame

• anger

swathed * in layers of white

• wrapped

• bandaged

• plastered

in the face of their tragic dilemma*

• problem

• the situation involving a difficult choice

• pregnancy

their answer was decisive*

• lenient

• firm

• unsteady

doggedly* the routine was repeated

• stubbornly

• dejectedly

• happily

Maintained the grueling * pace

• hard

• exhausting

• laborious

anger and bitterness had preyed upon* me

• confused me

• eaten away at

• accuses me