Vocabulary • Ch 16 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond • Fill in the blanks

She never felt truly comfortable in her new _________.

• dwelling

• blasphemy

• perturb

• abundant

The council decided to _________ the accused from the kingdom.

• premonition

• culprit

• banish

• blasphemy

She went through a long and difficult _________ to recover from her injuries.

• ingenuity

• twinge

• ordeal

• poignant

The CEO of the company is a mere _________, with no real decision-making power.

• treatise

• figurehead

• abundant

• mortified

She was charged with _________ for speaking against the religion.

• perturb

• blasphemy

• premonition

• abundant

She was _________ when she realized she had food stuck in her teeth during the entire meeting.

• spectacle

• mortified

• premonition

• poignant

The loud noises outside the house greatly _________ed the sleeping baby.

• dwelling

• perturb

• mortified

• reproach

The poem moved her to tears with its _________ imagery and heartfelt words.

• spectacle

• poignant

• scoundrel

• treatise

She had a strange _________ that something bad was about to happen.

• culprit

• spectacle

• premonition

• poignant

She couldn't help but _________ herself for the mistake.

• poignant

• perturb

• treatise

• reproach