The Furnished Room By: O'Henry
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- 3. The man was a ___________; he had stayed in 25 different apartments in 6 months and he had to walk to and from all of them for he did not have a car.
- 5. The rock band's rise in popularity turned out to be _________, and within two years its members had moved on to other careers.
- 10. The man's rug was very _____________; it had 18 different colors!
- 11. Hitler and the Nazis used ____________ to send messages back and forth to each other for the purpose of not letting the Americans and their other rivals understand what they were saying to each other.
- 13. The judge _________ the man's sentence for the armed bank robbery from 65 years to 60 years.
- 15. After work the businessman came back to his humble _____ where he saw his wife making dinner in the kitchen.
- 18. I have _________ my backyard looking for baseballs and footballs probably over 1,000,000 times in my life; I have almost covered every sq inch.
- 20. Señorita B has the only ____________ classroom in the St. Patrick's Jr High building; you have to go underground to get to her classroom.
- 21. Apartment buildings are full of ________; they are all beings that live there and pay rent to the landlord.
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- 1. The man ________ his wife to not divorce him after the big fight they had last night; he was on his knees pleading and begging her.
- 2. ___________ is the story of my life; I rarely think things through before I do them.
- 4. The sign on the door said the room was for ___ with a phone number to call about the property and how to rent it.
- 6. The man was _________; he had eaten so much that he threw up everywhere when he got home.
- 7. Aaron Rodgers' quarterback coach is one of the most ______ coaches in the NFL; he is completely useless because Aaron Rodgers is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
- 8. The man ________ the statement the judge said he had uttered; he denied the statement saying, ¨I would never say that!¨
- 9. The man's ________ statement made everyone think it was true but once they looked it up they realized he was lying the whole time.
- 12. The ___________ outside the woman's house were so beautiful that every time someone walked past they asked her if she had gotten them straight out of the Mediterranean.
- 14. When I went to Arizona in 2018 we were very _________ guests; we stayed in Sedona for 2 days, in Zion for 3 days, and Phoenix for 5 days.
- 16. The girl was very ______; she never complained or said a word to anyone.
- 17. One might think that the man wearing all black at 11:30 at night in the alleyway was a bit of a _______; he looked very suspicious.
- 19. The homeless man who had just gotten kicked off his bench put all of his things, only a picture hat and fig tree, in a _______; the well-constructed box had never ripped or torn in all the times he had used it.