Fill in the sentences.
1. Relief at being alive and __________________________at his captive plight brought a strange
medley of pious thank offerings. (p. 153 “The Interlopers”)

2. He looked across at the man who was fighting so grimly against pain and exhaustion…pain and
_______________________. (p. 154 “The Interlopers”)

3. He was peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and _______________
of the wind. (p. 152 “The Interlopers”)

4. For a space of time, both men were silent, turning over in their minds the wonderful changes that this dramatic _________________________ would bring. (p. 154 “The Interlopers”)

5. “A famous lawsuit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested the land from the illegal possession
of a neighboring family of petty landowners; the ___________________________ party had never
acquiesced in the judgment of the courts.” (p. 152 “The Interlopers”)

Abjure, Acumen, Chromosome, Feckless, Loquacious, Adverse, Discreet, Discrete, Peruse, Renown, Acquiesce, Languor, Pious, Retort, Succor, Skirling, Reconciliation, Exasperation, Plight, Dispossessed.