On their fishing trip, Bill and his dad found an old stone foundation that proved to be a[n] _________________ of a lighthouse that once stood on the beach.

• brigand

• litany

• vestige

• moratorium

• donnybrook

Fearing a[n] _________________ had entered her house, Liz picked up a tomahawk and slowly descended the stairs in the middle of the night.

• brigand

• sophistry

• interlocutor

• incantation

• vestige

Kate's _________________ over the summer rendered her unrecognizable to her friends on the first day of school.

• sophistry

• vestige

• equanimity

• metamorphosis

• incantation

Victor knew that the political argument was futile, but he remained a[n] _________________ to get his point across nonetheless.

• brigand

• interlocutor

• vestige

• carte blanche

• nomenclature

Every Halloween, the teenagers would dare each other to spend the night in the _________________ cemetery at the edge of town.

• rife

• procrustean

• ubiquitous

• contemptuous

• stygian