Vocabulary Task

disparage	akimbo	tow-line	sexton
marrow	wobble	pledge	brood

1.     That was something horror- movie star Vincent Price used to do when he wanted to sound especially menacing, but it is also associated with such attitudes as _____ and doubt.

2.     My friend has touched the _____ of our mighty discovery.

3.     Arrived at a good position for speaking, he put his left arm _____ with knuckles planted in his hip just under the edge of his  cut-away coat, bent his right leg, placing his toe on the ground and resting his heel with easy grace against his left shin.

4.     What happened was that the bridge “lozenged” - ______ in a lozenge – like pattern when so many people marched across it at once.

5.     There was something very strange and unaccountable about a ______.

6.     She had sent him word that she would help him that she would “_____” he own germs to give him aid.

7.     You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, with measured beak and slow, like _____ ringing the village bell, when evening sun is low.

8.     He was the quickest to learn to hop among his _____; and had lately taken to venturing out of the muddy paddies and unto the path used by humans that went down the hill.