Chapter 12 Dead Man's Party

Question 1

Clary squinted hard, but there was no way to tell if this was the street she’d seen at the Bone City–in her vision it had been nearly __________ with snow

Answer 1

obliterated

Question 2

______ the vampire gagged and clutched at this throat.

Answer 2

mid-roar

Question 3

Magnus’s apartment was at the top of a long flight of ______ stairs

Answer 3

rickety

Question 4

Keep up, said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had ________ to walk beside her

Answer 4

dropped back

Question 5

Magnus plucked the inviatation out of her her hand and looked at it with fastidious _________

Answer 5

distaste

Question 6

The young man blocking htedoorway was astall and thin as a _____, his hair a crown of dense black spikes

Answer 6

rail

Question 7

He was covered with dozens of metal _____

Answer 7

buckles

Question 8

A lilac-skinned woman in a metallic _____ was _______drinks along the bar in tall, harshly colored glasses that tinted the fluid inside them

Answer 8

bustier; ranging

Question 9

Doors torn off their hinges and laid across dented metal garbage cans made a ______ bar at one end of the room

Answer 9

makeshift

Question 10

Isabelle was slinking in a circle around him, sinuous as a snake, ______ her fingers across his chest

Answer 10

trailing

Question 11

Simon was doing what he usually did ____ of dancing, which was to bounce up and down ____________

Answer 11

in lieu; on the balls of his feet

Question 12

They weren’t a guest of mine, and are therefore… He offered a ____ smile. Not my responsibility

Answer 12

winsome

Question 13

when he dropped his hand, they hung there, hot and golden, making the painted lines of his eys and mouth ___ with reflected light

Answer 13

burn

Question 14

Isabelle was slinking in a circle around him, ______ as a snake, trailing her fingers across his chest

Answer 14

sinuous

Question 15

When he crossed his arms, his T-shirt rode up, showing a strip of flat golden stomach ___________ by a _____

Answer 15

unmarked; navel

Question 16

She could just see them ————- of the packed square of bodies

Answer 16

on the edge of

Question 17

his eyes were crusted with a _______ of charcoal glitter

Answer 17

raccoon mask

Question 18

Magnus sighed, and at the touch of his breath, the fireletters ________ ___ glowing ash

Answer 18

sifted away to

Question 19

She turned to see \magnus _________ one of the pillars

Answer 19

lounging against

Question 20

he splayed the fingers of his hand, and the vampire turned as _____ as if someone had grabbed his shoulders and spun him around

Answer 20

smartly

Question 21

To her right the spires of a church __________________ aginst the starless night sky

Answer 21

gleamed gray and black

Question 22

He ____ a ring-laded hand through his spiked hair and regarded them thoghtfully

Answer 22

ring-ladedn

Question 23

Oily-looking tubes and pipes slithered up and around them, —- as veins

Answer 23

ropy

Question 24

Isabelle’s ______ boots were starting to hurt her feet

Answer 24

lug-soled

Question 25

Simon was doing what he usually did _____ of dancing

Answer 25

in lieu

Question 26

He plucked the stele out of \jace’s hand–Clary hadn’t even realized he was holding it–and held it up. Jace looked faintly __________

Answer 26

abashed

Question 27

The rune tattoos on his palms stood out ____ and black

Answer 27

stark

Question 28

He ____ the fingers of his hand, and the vampire turned as smartly as if someone had grabbed his shoulders and spun him around

Answer 28

splayed

Question 29

The vampire roared with rage, ____ his fingers toward Magnus

Answer 29

jabbing

Question 30

she saw what they were looking at: severa mortorcycles, sleek and silvery, with low-slung black _______

Answer 30

chasis

Question 31

Under the skirt of her short green dress, her feet were ____ like a frog’s

Answer 31

webbed

Question 32

She could just see them on the edge of the _______________

Answer 32

packed square of bodies

Question 33

Clary hugged her arms around herself, her bracelets ______ together

Answer 33

clanking

Question 34

The man ____ his teeth, showing long pointed _____

Answer 34

bared; canines

Question 35

A group of young women so pale Clary wondered if they were weraring white ________ sipped scarlet liquid too thick to be wine from ____________

Answer 35

stage makeup; fluted crystal glasses

Question 36

So is that why you wanted to ____ my party? Just to wreck some bloodsucker bikes

Answer 36

crash

Question 37

Magnus’s bedroom was a riot of color: _______ sheets and ______ draped over a mattress on the floor

Answer 37

canary-yellow; bedspread

Question 38

The center of the room was packed with bodies dancing to the pounding beat that _______; though Clary couldn’t see a band anywhere

Answer 38

bounced off the walls

Question 39

his hair a crown of ____________

Answer 39

dense black spikes

Question 40

HIs eyes were ______ with a raccoon mask of _________

Answer 40

crusted; charcoal glitter

Question 41

I hope so. Isabelle ______ past him in a swirl of skirts

Answer 41

flounced

Question 42

He was __________ muscular, with a bald head shaved smooth and a pointed _____

Answer 42

compactly; goatee

Question 43

Big metal pillars _____ colored lights held up an arched, ____ ceiling

Answer 43

wound with; sooty

Question 44

There was a _____ sense of something organic about the bikes, like the bio-creatures in a Ginger painting

Answer 44

queasy

Question 45

his hair a _____ of dense black spikes

Answer 45

crown

Question 46

I hope so. Isabelle flounced past him __________

Answer 46

in a swirl of skirts

Question 47

Nice place, said Jace, drawing aside a heavy ____ of curtain

Answer 47

swag