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Grab Bag
100
gloomy or sluggish
What is sullen?
100
The dog ______ the boy.
What is mauled?
100
maul
What is to injure by a rough beating?
100
Mrs. Turner was almost screaming in a _______ earnestness by now.
What is "fanatical"?
100
Mrs. Turner would say Janie looks like a _____________
What is "seraph?"
200
weak; lacking in force or strength
What is feeble?
200
The concert was an _________ to the young man's memory.
What is an homage?
200
seraphs
What is angels of the highest order?
200
... now he hadn't a thing about him that wasn't ________ and blurred.
What is "dwindled?"
200
The tickets that Nunkie and Tea Cake were fighting over looked...
What is "mauled"?
300
An extreme enthusiasm
What is fanatical?
300
They had _______ tastes and always chose the ugliest things!
What is indiscriminate?
300
supplication
What is a humble prayer?
300
Through _____________ suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion.
What is "indiscriminate?"
300
The answers that Tea Cake gave Janie about his whereabouts were not direct, they were....
What is "oblique/"
400
to become smaller, shrink, waste away
What is dwindle?
400
I was not ______________ to the details. They decided it at a meeting I was not allowed to attend!
What is privy?
400
peevish
What is showing annoyance or irritation?
400
And when she was with Janie she had a feeling of _____________, as if she herself had become whiter...
What is "transmutation?"
400
When Janie is worried about her relationship with Tea Cake she sends up a.....
What is "supplication?"
500
malicious, cruel, merciless
What is wanton?
500
I cannot stand your _______ attitude! Wake up!
What is languid?
500
oblique
What is not straight or direct?
500
She paid _____________________ to Janie's Caucasian characteristics as such.
What is "homage"?
500
Tea Cake's feelings towards Mrs. Turner are.
What is "peevish"?