"Or ______ like a sore..."

"She calls to the boy, between yawns, in a slightly _____ voice."

"She crosses to her son and gives him a good, final, ______ shake."

"(Her son sits up at last, in a ______ of sleepiness) I say hurry up, Travis!"

"She wipes her face with a moist cloth and runs her fingers through her sleep-______ hair in a vain effort and ties an apron around her housecoat."

"He is a lean, intense young man in his middle thirties, inclined to quick nervous movements and _____ speech habits and always in his voice there is a quality of indictment."

"He is a lean, intense young man in his middle thirties, inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits and always in his voice there is a quality of ______."

"(The boy gives her an ______ look for her lack of understanding, and eats grudgingly.)"

"(The boy finally turns around and rolls his eyes at her, knowing the mood has changed and he is _______; he does not, however, move toward her yet) Not for nothing in this world!"

"Walter stands and stares back at her with ______, and suddenly reaches into his pocket again on an afterthought)"

"(Shrugging) So you would rather be Mr. Arnold than be his ________?"

"Her speech is a mixture of many things; it is different from the rest of the family's insofar as education has ______ her sense of English and perhaps the Midwest rather than the South has finally at last won out in her inflection; but not altogether, because over all of it is a soft slurring and transformed use of vowels which is the decided influence of the Southside."

"Her speech is a mixture of many things; it is different from the rest of the family's insofar as education has permeated her sense of English and perhaps the Midwest rather than the South has finally at last won out in her _______; but not altogether, because over all of it is a soft slurring and transformed use of vowels which is the decided influence of the Southside."

"Her speech is a mixture of many things; it is different from the rest of the family's insofar as education has permeated her sense of English and perhaps the Midwest rather than the South has finally at last won out in her inflection; but not altogether, because over all of it is a soft ______ and transformed use of vowels which is the decided influence of the Southside."

"She closes the door with a sleepy ______ and crosses to the table and sits down a little defeated."

"She crosses through the room, goes to the window, opens it, and brings in a ______ little plant growing doggedly in a small pot on the window sill."

"She crosses through the room, goes to the window, opens it, and brings in a feeble little plant growing ______ in a small pot on the window sill."