| A | B |
|---|
| edifice | "The Council _____ was surprisingly splendid." |
| splendid | "The Council Edifice was surprisingly _____." |
| ruin | "It remained from before the _____ a time so far in the past…" |
| ancestors | "…it was frightening when it recalled the Ruin, the end of civilization of the _____…" |
| fractures | "Verses told of smoky, poisonous fumes, of great _____ in the earth itself…" |
| immeasurably | "It was _____ old." |
| distorted | "…ordinary glass that _____ the view through bubbles and ripples." |
| sconces | "…sputtering flames from tall _____ fed with oil." |
| muted | "…behind a closed door: men's voices in _____ arguing." |
| coarsely | "…and smoothed the folds of her _____ woven shift." |
| deftly | "…using her hands to interweave the thick dark strands _____ tying the end…" |
| subsided | "The accused orphan girl is here! the door guard announced, and the muttering _____." |
| illuminating | "…each of the men had his personal torch behind him, _____…" |
| twinge | "…and Kira saw with a _____ of concern…" |
| authoritative | "…spoke in an _____ voice." |
| yearned | "She had always _____ to read." |
| dispassionately | "The white-haired man looked at the two of them _____." |
| illustrious | "Kira's flaw carried no _____ history…" |
| tolerated | "We have all _____ her presence for these years." |
| domestic | "She cannot dig or plant or weed, or even tend the _____ beasts…" |
| oozed | "Vandera _____ compliments designed to strengthen her case…" |
| impassive | "…Kira glanced …to see if he was swayed by the flattery. But his face was _____." |
| clasped | "…with longish dark hair neatly combed and _____ at the back of his neck…" |
| elite | "… were much in demand among the_____ of the village." |
| ornament | "Ordinarily people did not_____ themselves." |
| meticulously | "Kira had watched him marking these papers_____ …" |
| sinewy | "…his arm, bare above the bracelet was _____ and muscular." |
| infinite | "…from You said, I said, He said that you said, and the _____ variations." |
| variations | "… from You said, I said, He said that you said, and the infinite_____…" |
| proceedings | "He opened to a page he had marked during the _____." |
| accusatory | "…as Vandera had made her _____ presentation." |
| betrayal | "Kira felt stricken by the _____." |
| amendments | "Turning…to the third set of _____…" |
| assertion | "So we may set asside the _____ that it is the way…" |
| incurable | "She had a visible and_____ defect." |
| defect | "She had a visible and incurable_____." |
| audible | "She heard Jamison repeat the words of her thoughts as if they had been _____." |
| submit | "Why did she have to do this in front of them, to _____ to their humiliating stares?" |
| contemptuous | "…and she felt Vandera's _____ eyes on her back." |
| seared | "Pain started in her foot and _____ through her twisted leg." |
| concede | "I _____those points." |
| competent | "Yet her work at the weaving shed is _____." |
| refutes | "Look how thin she is. Her weight _____ that accusation." |
| vindictive | "But she could still hear Vandaras voice, shrill with_____ accusation…" |
| feigned | "Kira shrugged _____ nonchalance." |
| nonchalance | "Kira shrugged with feigned_____." |
| reiterated | "Again the guardian who was her defender _____ that exceptions could be made." |
| embroidered | "The robe…was richly _____." |
| intricate | "The _____ scenes on it had been there for centuries…" |
| talisman | "Kira, clutching the cloth _____ in her pocket…" |
| leisure | "During her infrequent _____ times…" |
| violation | "It was not a _____. She had asked permission…" |
| pulsated | "…the gold's and red's _____ as if the morning sun itself had slid and twisted its rays into the cloth." |
