Vocabulary • Ch 9 - Hoot • Fill in the blanks

The security guards patrol the _________ of the building.

• nimble

• appeal

• perimeter

• fiasco

She felt comfortable enough to _________ in her best friend about her deepest secrets.

• remorse

• confide

• pungent

• fiasco

The lawyer presented a convincing _________ to the jury.

• refrain

• appeal

• remorse

• solvent

The suspect managed to _________ capture by jumping over fences and disappearing into the night.

• conscious

• constant

• elude

• solvent

The employee had to _________ for forgiveness after making a costly mistake.

• remorse

• fiasco

• grovel

• pungent