Vocabulary • Ch 12 - The Scarlet Letter • Fill in the blanks

The sound of her laughter _________d through the entire room.

• excursion

• torrent

• distort

• reverberate

The _________ streaked across the night sky, leaving a trail of bright light behind it.

• torrent

• thus far

• excursion

• meteor

A sense of _________ washed over her as she entered the old, dark house.

• inextricable

• scanty

• foreboding

• distort

She made a _________ about the outcome of the experiment.

• askew

• excursion

• admonish

• conjecture

The _________ dictator oppressed his people with cruel and unjust laws.

• wield

• malevolent

• askew

• meteor