Vocabulary • Ch 21 - Tuck Everlasting • Fill in the blanks

The soft melody _________ her troubled mind.

• open-and-shut

• throbbed

• soothed

• insistent

The child couldn't stop _________ about her day at school.

• anxiously

• babbling

• insistent

• throbbed

She waited _________ for the results of the test.

• throbbed

• anxiously

• pulsing

• insistent

She held onto the _________ necklace tightly.

• open-and-shut

• soothed

• anxiously

• precious

She was _________ on having her own way.

• insistent

• pulsing

• babbling

• open-and-shut

Her head _________ with pain after a long day of work.

• crouched

• throbbed

• pulsing

• acrid

The music was _________ through the speakers at the party.

• babbling

• pulsing

• precious

• acrid

The cat _________ low in the grass, ready to pounce on its prey.

• crouched

• throbbed

• babbling

• anxiously

The _________ odor of burnt popcorn lingered in the air.

• crouched

• anxiously

• precious

• acrid

The case was an _________ matter, with overwhelming evidence leading to a quick and decisive verdict.

• insistent

• crouched

• pulsing

• open-and-shut