You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” isconfronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage.
A. drowse
B. beguile
C. scamper
D. stagger
She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that shethinks orchids are tacky flowers.
A. gluttonous
B. vulgar
C. sensuous
D. ominous
Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some carelessperson rich enough to own a car…
A. plight
B. derelict
C. crippled
D. delude
…a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board ofthe house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney.
A. gloomy
B. grimy
C. desultory
D. clemency