Read each sentence. Complete the sentence with the best word from the list in the box. Use each word only once.
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1. “‘…some few small aunts, not wanted in the kitchen, nor anywhere else for that matter, sat on the very edges of their chairs, poised and ____________________, afraid to break, like faded cups and saucers.’â€Â
2. “‘…once I had a little ______________________ nose bag from an aunt….’â€Â
3. “..we sang and ________________________all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors.…â€Â
4. Mrs. Prothero’s cry was, “to us, like the far-off challenge of our enemy and _________________, the neighbor’s polar cat.â€Â
5. “…sometimes two hale young men...would trudge, unspeaking, down to the _________________ sea….â€Â
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