WORD BOX CHERUBIC DEFT ENIGMATICAL ETHEREAL EXUBERANT

1. WORD BOX • CHERUBIC DEFT ENIGMATICAL ETHEREAL EXUBERANT • FLACCID FLORID GUMPTION INNUMERABLE LAMENTABLE MUNDANE NONCHALANTLY PARASITIC RAKISH • REPLICA SWINISH TAUT TEDIOUSLY TRANSLUCENT WRY Madge and Dorcas found (many) ________ small tasks for Johnny, now he “wasn’t doing anything.” Once fat Madge (oh no he didn’t!) made him sit before her, holding a skein of yarn from which she wound a ball. Johnny was so anxious to be on with the work -- ______ delayed by Dove’s tricks – he hardly listened. Rab was both friendly and aloof. _________ (cool & calmly) he took out his knife and cut hunks of bread from the long loaf. Cilla lifted Isannah’spointed (“see through”) _______ little face. Although Johnny might have been more cordially received by Merchant Lyte, he was satisfied enough with his welcome to build up air castles. He really knew they were air castles, for he was not easily taken in even by his own ______ imagination. Cilla was pairing apples in that _____, skillful, absent-minded way she did such things. Since his accident, he had unconsciously taken to wearing his hat at a (jaunty, slight) _______ angle. The man said nothing, but he looked at Johnny and the look of bleak hatred amazed the boy. He had not guessed Mr. Tweedie had that much ______ in him. Sewall looked at Johnny and Johnny at Sewall. The young man was as kind as his _______ face suggested.

2. 10) The clock had indeed struck eleven and there, standing in the doorway, were Rab and Cilla. Rab, ______, dark, capable, looked as always. A (“flowery”) _______ looking woman was flapping a pink fan. Johnny sat close to Mr. Quincy, watching the Justice’s nervous, ______ hands…. 13 & 14) Whatever a “pig-of-a-louse” was, it did describe the whitish, ______ (soft & limp), ______ (acting like a plant or animal that “sponges off” a host) Dove. Johnny was a rather skinny boy, neither too large nor small for fourteen. Although two years younger than the _____ Dove, he was inches shorter and pounds lighter. When at last he blew out his lamp, Johnny had made an exact _______ of the winged woman, only larger. “I bet it’s something so awful you are ashamed of it, like Ladybug, or Leapfrog, or _______.” Dorcas wore her clothes so tight, hoping to look the opposite ______ (light). Johnny had a thin, sleep-flushed face, light eyes, a _____ or crooked mouth, and fair, lank “And, boy, don’t you go get all fretted up over what’s after all nothing but an order for silver. It’s sinful to let yourself go so over ______ things.”