Klaus stood by the window, squinting as he read his smuggled book by the moonlight that trickled into the room. He occasionally glanced at his sisters. Violet was sleeping fitfully-a word which here means “____________________________________________ ”-on the lumpy bed, and Sunny had wormed her way into the pile of curtains so that she just looked like a small heap of cloth. Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn’t want to give them false hope. He wasn’t sure the book would help them out of their dilemma.

When Count Olaf walked into the kitchen, he saw Klaus sitting at the table and _________________, a word which here means “smiled in an unfriendly, phony way.”

He put the book out on the table so Olaf could see it. “It’s called Nuptial Law,” Klaus said, “and I learned many interesting things while reading it.” Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down. “The word ‘nuptial,’ ” Klaus said, “means ‘relating to __________________.’ ”

Count Olaf is planning to marry Violet __________________.

To those who hadn’t been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she ________________________ to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.

Also, she wanted to do something known in the crime industry as “__________________________.” “__________________” means observing a particular location in order to formulate a plan. For instance, if you are a bank robber-although I hope you aren’t-you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it.

Count Olaf putt Sunny in a ________________ dangling from the tower window like a flag in the wind.

She was certain that at any moment the cloth would tear, or the hook would slip, and Violet would be sent tumbling to her death. But thanks to her adroit inventing skills-the word “adroit” here means “_________________”-everything worked the way it was supposed to work, and suddenly Violet found herself feeling a piece of metal instead of a cloth rope.

Among Violet’s many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the ______________. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the _____________ because it twisted this way and that, in a most complicated and eerie way. The______________ was a very useful knot, and when Violet tied the cloth strips together, end to end, it formed a sort of rope.