Jeer

Even the children were scolded if they used the term lightly at play, jeering at a teammate who missed a catch or stumbled in a race.

Palpable

Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along the river path, he remembered that moment of palpable, stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.

Complicated

His feelings were too complicated this evening.

Defiant

She held up a clenched fist and the rest of the family smiled at her small defiant gesture.

Sympathetic

“Oh, no,” Mother murmured sympathetically. “I know how sad that must make you feel.”

Jonas and Lily both nodded sympathetically as well.

Capacity

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.

Overwhelming

To see him brought before her a second time caused her overwhelming feelings of frustration and anger. And even guilt, that she hadn’t made a difference in his life.

Apprehensive

“I’m feeling apprehensive,” he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.

Reassured

Though he had been reassured by the talk with his parents, he hadn’t the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he might feel about it when the day came.

Humiliation

Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement attention, this is a reminder TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS are TO BE eaten, not hoarded had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.

Remorse

No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.

Awkward

He knew him, of course, since they had always been groupmates, but they had never talked about the boys' accomplishments because such a conversation would have been awkward for Benjamin.

Mischievous

But to be honest,” she whispered with a mischievous look, “some of the tellings are a little boring.

Bewilderment

He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening when the family unit had shared their feelings of the day.

The first cake recipe was too ___________, so I decided to choose a simpler one.

Everything was going well until our ___________ 6-year-old decided to stick his hand into the living room fan.

Because Gina is a ___________ teenager, she is often called to the principal’s office.

The teacher piled on __________ amounts of homework that was difficult for the students to complete in one night.

As a spy, Josh is constantly dealing with one ________ after another in hopes of keeping his country safe.