Unbroken Part I
“Louie didn’t fit in with other kids. He was a ________________ boy, and thanks to the lingering effects of his pneumonia, in picnic footraces, every girl in town could dust him.”
Choices: Peal/pealing, Raucous, Puny, Restive/restiveness, Denude/denuding, Jettison/jettisoning, Impale/impaling
puny
“He put his feet on the frame and pushed off, wrenching his right hand free and cutting his finger and scraping his back on the _________________.”
Choices: Ruse, Reconnaissance, Incendiary/incendiaries, Illuminate/illuminating, Abut/abutted, Armaments, Turret, Plaintive, Fuselage
Fuselage
"What he was seeing was impossible, yet he felt absolutely ____________. This was, he felt certain, no hallucination."
Choices: Dire, Lithe, Louse/Lice, Squall, Strafe, Tether, Placidly, Reverent, Lucid, Gyrate, Chastise
lucid
"Louie would fall into a line of _______________ men."
Choices: Dignity, Haggard, Caustic, Scuttle, Daft, Trounce, Degradation, Sadistic, Tyrant, Guerilla, Cesspit, Propaganda, Raze
haggard
As the service began, Louie was ____________ and resentful.
Choices: Despondent, Ethereal, Snide, Appall, Sullen, Omnipotent, Forsaken, Resilient, Ruffians, Exile
Sullen
“Louie climbed a church steeple, tied piano wire to the bell, strung the wire into a nearby tree, and roused the police, firefighters, and all of Torrance with apparently spontaneous ____________.”
Choices: Peal/pealing, Raucous, Puny, Restive/restiveness, Denude/denuding, Jettison/jettisoning, Impale/impaling
pealing
“Searchlights swung about, their beams reflecting off the clouds and back onto the ground, ________________ scores of Japanese in their sleeping clothes, sprinting in confusion."
Choices: Ruse, Reconnaissance, Incendiary/incendiaries, Illuminate/illuminating, Abut/abutted, Armaments, Turret, Plaintive, Fuselage
Illuminating
“In its place, rising from below, came massive blue shapes, gliding in ______________ arcs around the rafts. Sharks had found them.”
Choices: Dire, Lithe, Louse/Lice, Squall, Strafe, Tether, Placidly, Reverent, Lucid, Gyrate, Chastise
Lithe
“One captive convinced a particularly _______________ guard that a sundial would work at night if he used a match.”
Choices: Dignity, Haggard, Caustic, Scuttle, Daft, Trounce, Degradation, Sadistic, Tyrant, Guerilla, Cesspit, Propaganda, Raze
daft
“He quit his job, hiked into the countryside, and took a job as a cowherd. He was _____________.”
Choices: Despondent, Ethereal, Snide, Appall, Sullen, Omnipotent, Forsaken, Resilient, Ruffians, Exile
Despondent
"The man beside him swerved and stomped on his foot, ____________ Louie’s toe with his spike."
Choices: Peal/pealing, Raucous, Puny, Restive/restiveness, Denude/denuding, Jettison/jettisoning, Impale/impaling
impaling
"He barreled toward a string of buildings, hauled the plane’s nose up, and yelled to the bombardier. 'When are you going to turn loose those ________________?'”
Choices: Ruse, Reconnaissance, Incendiary/incendiaries, Illuminate/illuminating, Abut/abutted, Armaments, Turret, Plaintive, Fuselage
Incendiary/incendiaries
“They fell into _____________ silence. Their suffering was suspended. They weren’t hungry or thirsty. Such extraordinary beauty, Louie thought, was too perfect to have come by chance.”
Choices: Dire, Lithe, Louse/Lice, Squall, Strafe, Tether, Placidly, Reverent, Lucid, Gyrate, Chastise
Reverent
“A famous Olympian, criticizing America, would be a priceless_________________ tool.”
Choices: Dignity, Haggard, Caustic, Scuttle, Daft, Trounce, Degradation, Sadistic, Tyrant, Guerilla, Cesspit, Propaganda, Raze
Propaganda
“He was not the worthless, broken, ______________ man the Bird had tried to make of him.”
Choices: Despondent, Ethereal, Snide, Appall, Sullen, Omnipotent, Forsaken, Resilient, Ruffians, Exile
Forsaken
“Basketball players did passing drills on deck, but the wind kept ________________ the basketballs into the Atlantic.”
Choices: Peal/pealing, Raucous, Puny, Restive/restiveness, Denude/denuding, Jettison/jettisoning, Impale/impaling
jettisoning
“Along the way, they came upon several airfields, and were amazed to discover that all the planes and equipment were made of plywood, an elaborate ruse to fool Japanese flying _________________.”
Choices: Ruse, Reconnaissance, Incendiary/incendiaries, Illuminate/illuminating, Abut/abutted, Armaments, Turret, Plaintive, Fuselage
Reconnaissance
“They couldn’t believe the airmen, mistaking them for Japanese, would ____________ unarmed castaways.”
Choices: Dire, Lithe, Louse/Lice, Squall, Strafe, Tether, Placidly, Reverent, Lucid, Gyrate, Chastise
strafe
“He [Watanabe] was, said one POW, ‘absolutely the most ___________________ man I ever met.’”
Choices: Dignity, Haggard, Caustic, Scuttle, Daft, Trounce, Degradation, Sadistic, Tyrant, Guerilla, Cesspit, Propaganda, Raze
Sadistic
“He could speak and think of his captors, even the Bird, without bitterness now, but a question tapped in his mind: If he saw them again, would the peace he’d found prove___________?”
Choices: Despondent, Ethereal, Snide, Appall, Sullen, Omnipotent, Forsaken, Resilient, Ruffians, Exile
Resilient
“The mustache was abandoned, and Louie joined the other lightfingers in _______________ the ship.”
Choices: Peal/pealing, Raucous, Puny, Restive/restiveness, Denude/denuding, Jettison/jettisoning, Impale/impaling
Denuding
“The world might have left it alone, were it not for what lay under the feet of the grass-skirted natives: phosphate, a central ingredient in __________________.”
Choices: Ruse, Reconnaissance, Incendiary/incendiaries, Illuminate/illuminating, Abut/abutted, Armaments, Turret, Plaintive, Fuselage
Armaments
“The captain approached and ______________ the crewmen.”
Choices: Dire, Lithe, Louse/Lice, Squall, Strafe, Tether, Placidly, Reverent, Lucid, Gyrate, Chastise
chastised
“Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held venomously racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians usually carried ____________________ prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish beasts or fearsome devils.”
Choices: Dignity, Haggard, Caustic, Scuttle, Daft, Trounce, Degradation, Sadistic, Tyrant, Guerilla, Cesspit, Propaganda, Raze
Caustic
“ ‘My heavenly father hung them there with a flaming fingertip and holds them there with the power of his ____________________ hand, and he runs the whole universe…’”
Choices: Despondent, Ethereal, Snide, Appall, Sullen, Omnipotent, Forsaken, Resilient, Ruffians, Exile
Omnipotent