| A | B |
| “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ____________ halls for the summer.” | ancestral |
| “He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he __________ openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” | scoffs |
| “I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and __________, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least.” | arbors |
| I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to ______________ about behind that silly and conspicuous front design. | skulk |
| “There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two _________ eyes stare at you upside down.” | bulbous |
| “I even said so to John one moonlight evening but he said what I felt was a(n) _________, and shut the window." | draught |
| “I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the ________ and had roses allover the window and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! | piazza |
| “I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window and such pretty old-fashioned __________ hangings! | chintz |
| “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic ___________ -- but that would be asking too much of fate!” | felicity |
| “ Personally, I believe that _____________ work, with excitement and change, would do me good.” | congenial |
| “I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling ____________ patterns committing every artistic sin.” | flamboyant |
| “I am sitting by the window now, up in this ____________ nursery, and there is nothing tohinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.” | atrocious |
| “The furniture in this room is no worse than ______________, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.” | inharmonious |
| “There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all, -- the _____________ grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.” | interminable |
| “There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all, -- the interminable _____________ seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.” | grotesques |