“We’re here, we’ve arrived, this is our home for the ______________ future and we just have to make the best of things.”
foreseeable
desolate
chaos
lacquered
2.
“Bruno thought about it and shook his head. ‘I don’t think so,’ he said with great _________________."
conviction
sing-song
muster
overawe
3.
“’Bruno’s not nine, he’s only six,’ said one particular monster over and over again in a _____________ voice, dancing around him and poking him in the ribs.”
sing-song
chaos
chain gang
courgette
4.
“The walls were hardly visible; instead they were covered with dark __________ shelves, all lined with books, like the ones in the library at the house in Berlin.”
muster
customary
mahogany
desolate
5.
“He couldn’t think of anything though. In fact over the last few days he had behaved in a perfectly decent manner to everyone and couldn’t remember causing any _________ at all.”
chaos
overawe
conviction
desolate
6.
“What are you doing?” he asked in as polite a tone as he could _____________, for although he wasn’t happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions, his mother had always told him that he was to treat Maria respectfully…”
overawe
muster
desolate
moor
7.
“There was a garden directly beneath Bruno’s window…full of flowers which grew in neat orderly sections in soil that looked as if it was tended very carefully by someone who knew that growing flowers in a place like this was something good that they could do, like putting a tiny candle of light in the corner of a huge castle on a misty _____ on a dark winter’s night.”
courgette
banister
moor
chaos
8.
“’And our family is here, Bruno. At Out-With. ____________, this must be our home.’”
Foreseeable
Ergo
Dismissively
Customary
9.
“He made his way up the stairs slowly, holding on to the ___________ with one hand, and wondered whether the new house in the new place where the new job was would have as fine a ____________ to slide down as this one did.”
banister
courgette
mahogany
moor
10.
“’Hello, Father,’ said Bruno quietly, a little ____________ by the splendor of the room.”
desolate
overawed
mustered
lacquered
11.
“’Oh you’ll make other friends,’ said Mother, waving her hand in the air _____________, as if the making of a boy’s three best friends for life was an easy thing.”
dismissively
ergo
conviction
customary
12.
“Everywhere they looked they could see people…Some stood perfectly still in groups...Some were formed into a sort of ______________ and pushing wheelbarrows from one side of the camp to the other...”
chain gang
chaos
courgette
sing-song
13.
“Bruno turned the door handle and stepped inside and assumed his _________________ pose of wide-open eyes, mouth in the shape on an O and arms stretched out by his sides."
desolate
chaos
customary
conviction
14.
“His thick dark hair had obviously been recently _____________ and combed, and as Bruno watched from above he felt both scared and in awe of him.”
foreseeable
customary
dismissively
lacquered
15.
“There were shops with bright store fronts, and fruit and vegetable stalls with big trays piled high with cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers and corn. Some were overspilling with leeks and mushrooms, turnips and sprouts; others with lettuce and green beans, ___________ and parsnips.”
chaos
moors
courgettes
chain gangs
