Short Story Vocab RHSL

4. "With success so _______, we decided not to tell anyone until he could actually walk."
5. "'Nonetheless, that is the _______,' Mr. Steward said. 'Would you like me to return the button unit?'”
6. "Maybe some ________ millionaire is doing it."
9. "Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own _________, and I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course."
10. "Norma ______ a smile. She was sure now it was a sales pitch."
11. "“It offends me,” Arthur said. “I know, but” — Norma rolled another curler in her hair — “doesn’t it ______ you, too?”
12. “All right, suppose it is?” He looked _________. “What would you like to do? Get the button back and push it? Murder someone?”

1. "The excitement of our program had now been gone for weeks, but still we kept on with a tired ________."
2. "The flower garden is _______, the house a gleaming white, and the pale fence across the yard stands straight and spruce."
3. "In the morning, as she left the apartment, Norma saw the card halves on the table. _______, she dropped them into her purse."
7. "I’d run with him across the ends of the cotton rows and _______ him around corners on two wheels. Sometimes I accidentally turned him over, but he never told Mama."
8. "I did,” declared Doodle. “Down in the swamp-” “He didn’t,” I said contrarily. “You did, eh?” said Daddy, ignoring my denial. “I certainly did,” Doodle ________, scowling at me over the top of his iced-tea glass, and we were quiet again.