Vocabulary Task

bout	vindicate	obscurity	graveyard	staunch(2)	insolent	jerk
middling	nudge(2)	usher	precipitately	sneer	tumultuously

1.       The one closest to her was a lumbering Neanderthal-browed hulk; the next a _____ middle-aged figure in overalls; and just behind him; there was a shorter, thinner, younger one with tattoos running down the sinewy muscles of his forearms.

2.       Men and women do amateur sumo _____ together at Asahi University.

3.       In the sleeping room itself, you should remove all the _____ that distract you from sleeping.

4.       As Jack turned in from the hall, Fisher himself was standing at the door of his private office; hands in pockets, cigar rolling between thick lips, hat on the back of his head, on his face customary brutal _____.

5.       Fisher ______ retired into his private office, slamming the door behind him.

6.       But I was willing to put up with Russell, obnoxious _____ that he was to be here – to be anywhere-  with Rowena Danvers.

7.       We re-entered the room which we had left so ______ ten minutes before.

8.       Across the street was a McDonald’s I’d never seen before, with a huge _____ arch above it.

9.       He looked at me with doubt in his _____ eyes.

10.   I live next to the church and the _____.

11.   The Industrial Revolution ______ in a time of unparalled human progress.

12.   Small changes in your environment ______, can dramatically improve the way you sleep.

13.   Somewhere between these positions is where I want us to end up; ______ because we understand the advantages of being _____; flexible because we understand the rational and historical necessity to be flexible.

14.   _____ often brings safety.

15.   Some other time I have ______ myself perhaps – but come – let us retire, for you are weary and sleepy.