Vocabulary • Ch 17 - Dracula • Fill in the blanks

We are all _________ beings, destined to die someday.

• atone

• detrimental

• mortal

• delicacy

The detective had enough evidence to _________ the suspect to confess.

• elapse

• perturb

• compel

• invoke

She remained _________ in the debate, refusing to take sides.

• invoke

• sojourn

• neutral

• delicacy

I could sense the _________ in her voice as she prepared to take the stage.

• invoke

• atone

• elapse

• apprehension

The doctor assured me that the tumor was _________.

• elapse

• mortal

• knell

• benign