Short Story Vocabulary

The constant exposure to loud noises _____ her hearing.

• Prompted

• Interspersed

• Sensitized

• Dazed

The musician's years of practice had resulted in a high level of _____ in their playing.

• Automaticity

• Jaunt

• Earnest

• Spoor

The doctor's _____ assessment of the patient was thorough and unbiased.

• Breathless

• Clinical

• Furtive

• Hysterical

The twins claimed to have a _____ connection, able to communicate without speaking.

• Stout

• Engrossed

• Telepathic

• Sensitized

The author ______ the serious narrative with humorous anecdotes.

• Grimaced

• Bantered

• Cowered

• Interspersed

They took a weekend _____ to the coast.

• Sidle

• Jaunt

• Spoor

• Familiar

The hunters displayed their trophies, the _____ of the animals they had killed.

• Spoors

• Familiars

• Clinicals

• Pelts

She stared _____ out the window, lost in her thoughts.

• Abstractedly

• Insistently

• Telepathically

• Stoutly

He was so _____ in his book that he didn't hear the phone ring.

• Sensitized

• Prompted

• Dazed

• Engrossed

What _____you to apply for this job?

• Pelted

• Grimaced

• Prompted

• Engrossed