Story of An Eyewitness Vocabulary

Jack could not give an ______________________ of all the people who were killed, because many bodies were burned in the fire.

• Conflagration

• Nabobs

• Surmount

• Enumeration

Jack London reported that the smoke from the ____________________ after the earthquake could be seen one hundred miles away.

A. Flotsam

• flotsam

• conflagration

• refugee

• enumeration

The number of the victims of the earthquake will never be known. All ________ of them were destroyed by the flames.

• flotsam

• enumeration

• vestiges

• nabobs

Jack described how the ______________ had fled with as much as they could carry.

• flotsams

• refugees

• flanks

• contrivances

The _____________ of the fire threatened rich and poor alike.

• conflagration

• menace

• enumereation

• contrivance

Day was trying to dawn through the smoke-__________.

• pall

• menace

• presidio

• lurid

The exhausted creatures, stirred on by the menace of ______, would arise and struggle up the steep pavements.

• refugee

• contrivance

• nabobs

• bayonets

London compared the city to a shipwreck and its people to the ______________ that covers the waves when a great ship goes down.

• Vestiges

• Contrivance

• Flotsam

• Refugee

With both sides of the street on fire, people were often _____________ by burning buildings.

• compelled

• surmounted

• flanked

• menaced

People carried valuables and things that were ___________ to them.

• dear

• compel

• flank

• surmount