“What are you doing?” he asked in as polite a tone as he could _____________, for although he wasn’t happy to come home and find
someone going through his possessions, his mother had always told him that he was to treat Maria respectfully…” overawe
muster
desolate
moor
7.
“There was a garden directly beneath Bruno’s window…full of flowers which grew in neat orderly sections in soil that looked as if it was tended very carefully by someone who knew that growing flowers in a place like this was something good that they could do, like putting a tiny candle of light in the corner of a huge castle on a misty _____ on a dark winter’s night.”
courgette
banister
moor
chaos
8.
“’And our family is here, Bruno. At Out-With. ____________, this must be our home.’”
Foreseeable
Ergo
Dismissively
Customary
9.
“He made his way up the stairs slowly, holding on to the ___________ with one hand, and wondered whether the new house in the new place where the new job was would have as fine a ____________ to slide down as this one did.”
banister
courgette
mahogany
moor
10.
“’Hello, Father,’ said Bruno quietly, a little ____________ by the splendor of the room.”
