Vocabulary

I lie across my bed, mindlessly flipping through pages of a poetry ___________ my dad assigned me.

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

• audacious

•    derive 

•  evoke       

•  despondent

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• mutiny

• proprietor 

• commence       

• corroborate 

It is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a ________________.

(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

• surmise  

• feasible

• elapse

• proprietor

Klaus was too tired and _________ to speak, and Violet was holed up in the inventing area of her mind, too busy planning to talk.

establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• rebuff   

• corroborate

• tirade 

• surmise  

My eyelids squeezed tighter as I tried to picture the avalanche of applause drowning out Tamika’s angry _________________.

act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose

• rebuff

• conspire

• despondent

• evoke

Beneath the evergreen boughs, the two figures _________ into one.