Noughts and Crosses Prologue

Wagons and dressing tents fill the back end, but the people who are left mill about aimlessly or sit __________ in the shade.

• idly

• genuinely

• icily

• mutually

loathing has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• caprice

• whim

• scruple

• abhorrence

Judge Matsumoto would function as the enforcement agent for the decree and would have the power to hold the city in ___________ or impose other penalties if the decree's provisions were violated.

• encounter

• sting

• contempt

• entry

protest means to:

• express opposition through action or words

• gain money or materially

• share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of

• come to terms with

To __________ is to move back and forth - either literally, like the way someone with a high fever might __________ as she tries to stand, or figuratively, like the way you might _________ between two options before finally making a decision.