Check Your Vocabulary

 Fill in the gaps with the given words.

affectation

amiss

deplete

fastidiously

funnel

imbue

pate

slab

stringent

stub

untoward

winch

1. Minds of the most _____ kind, including Nobel Prize - winner Francis crick, who deduced the twisted - ladder structure of DNA, famed Roman educator and rhetorian Quitilian, and even Sigmund Freud had all tried their hand at deciphering sleep's enigmatic code, all in vain.

2 I don't think he's seen anything ______.

3. A lantern holding a candle, lit at the beginning of our shift and now closer to a _____, burns on the wall

4.  I can't get his initial moment of _____ out of my mind.

5. but his document - or at least, the seal affixed to it- was _____ by Proconsul Manius, impossible to fake.

6. So I simply have to hope that his nerves, and his attempt to hide them, are not from anything _____.

7. I go to have lunch when I feel my energy level starts _____.

8. You can _____ him up.

9. Hispius rubs the dark surface of his shaven _____.

10. I start edging around the white _____, deeper into cell forty-one.

11. I've been unaffected by the Sappers, so far, but still I move with care, _____ avoiding brushing against anything.

all of your drive, your focus, your mental and physical evergy, is ______ away by these pale stone beds, to be received by some distant, particularly favoured Septimus.

Answer Key:

1. stringent; 2. amiss; 3. stub;4. affectation; 5. imbue; 6.untoward; 7.deplete; 8. winch; 9.pate; 10. slab;11.fastidiously;12. funnelled