Chapter 29

Question 1

Just breathe and let your thoughts ______ away.

Answer 1

float

Question 2

My eyes dart around ,trying to look at anything but her ___________ dirigibles.

Answer 2

on-display

Question 3

She taps the velvet ____________________ opposite the crystal.

Answer 3

at the bottom edge

Question 4

The cards are slippery and a little _________ in my hands.

Answer 4

clumsy

Question 5

clumsy means

Answer 5

difficult to handle or use; unwieldy. “chairs with clumsy wooden armrests”

Question 6

Answer 6

sunburst

Question 7

Answer 7

squiggly

Question 8

abuduction means

Answer 8

noun

noun: abduction; plural noun: abductions

1.

the action or an instance of forcibly taking someone away against their will.

Question 9

Coop makes fun of me all the time. Says I’m way too gullible. But I don’t care. There are too many strange things in the world to _______________________.

Answer 9

discount it all

Question 10

discount

Answer 10

regard (a possibility, fact, or person) as being unworthy of consideration because it lacks credibility.

“I’d heard rumors, but discounted them”

Question 11

Try to clear my mind, to let all of my thoughts and feelings __________________. Which is harder than you might imagine. Especially when there are very specific thoughts that are _____________ your attention–like Nesa’s plunging Neckline.

Answer 11

drift off; insist on

Question 12

insist on

Answer 12

To insist on something is to demand or swear to it. You can insist that you didn’t eat the last piece of cake, and then insist that your brother show your mom the bits of frosting on his fingers. The verb insist comes from the Latin insistere, meaning “persist,” “dwell upon,” or “stand on.”

Question 13

Answer 13

plunging neckline

Question 14

adorned with jewels

Answer 14

bejeweled

Question 15

Especially when there are very specific thoughts that are ___________________ your attention–like Nessa’s plunging neckline. Or the ____________ cross that’s __________ ever so gently between her breasts.

Answer 15

insisting on; bejeweled; bobbing

Question 16

Nessa smiles, her dark lips _____ and __________.

Answer 16

full and glistening

Question 17

Answer 17

stormtrooper

Question 18

stand at attention

Answer 18

: to stand silently with the body stiff and straight, the feet together, and both arms at the sides

The troops stood at attention.

Question 19

I blink hard and point at the necklace to try and ________ this one.

Answer 19

salvage

Question 20

It isn’t a Christian cross. It’s a way older symbol than that. I wear it to remind me that we are constantly __________________ in our lives. And that you are always being asked to make choices.

Answer 20

at crossroads

Question 21

Well. Let’s find out, hall we? Nessa ____________ the tarot cards in my hands.

Answer 21

gestures at

Question 22

Sure. Okay. I cut the cards three times, feeling a little __________________ and jangly inside.

Answer 22

helium headed

Question 23

jangle

Answer 23

verb (used with object), jangled, jangling.

3. to cause to make a harsh, discordant, usually metallic sound:

He jangled the pots and pans.

Question 24

I cut the cards three times, feeling a little helium headed and ___________.

Answer 24

jangly inside

Question 25

She closes her eyes and _______ her hands _____ the deck.

Answer 25

hovers; over

Question 26

Eyes still closed, Nessa ____________ three cards and places them facedown in a row.

Answer 26

deals out

Question 27

It’s like when I go to the doctor and she tells me she’s gong to ________________ and I get an all-over-body queasiness.

Answer 27

take blood

Question 28

It stare at the picture of a hand ____________________ the earth and holding a flaming wand _______ glowing jewels.

Answer 28

bursting out of; topped with

Question 29

Does that make any sense to you? Do you feel like something new is coming into your life? Something that maybe you’re afraid to fully ___________?

Answer 29

embrace

Question 30

Hold on. Nesa flips the page and _______________________________.

Answer 30

runs her finger down it

Question 31

The other two should clarify thing. She _______ the center card ____.

Answer 31

flips over

Question 32

A Grim REaper wearing purple robes sits o top of a large skull. In the backkground, a ginle white rose _____________ the scorched landscape.

Answer 32

sprouts from

Question 33

A grim ___________ wearing purple robes sits on top of a large skull.

Answer 33

reaper

Question 34

Grim reaper

Answer 34

a personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe.

Question 35

Nessa ___________ her book. Okay now. The two of swords. It means a stalemate situation. A conflict between what your heart wants and what your brain is telling you.

Answer 35

thumbs through

Question 36

Then I remeber Evelyn. Ew. Talk about ________________________. Well, I guess maybe.

Answer 36

salt on a slug

Question 37

The world is being overrun by lifeless, soulless creatures that must be defeated so that a new and better world can ___________________.

Answer 37

rise from the ashes

Question 38

She leans forward, giving me an even closer look ______________. Sweet mother of Thor. don’t you see?

Answer 38

down her shirt

Question 39

She leans forward, giving me an even closer look down her shirt. ____________________.

Answer 39

sweet mother of Thor

Question 40

My eyes ________________ her amazing cleavage and the Grim Reaper.

Answer 40

bounce between

Question 41

I do my best to smile, but the ____________ of the Grim Reaper looms large.

Answer 41

specter

Question 42

specter

Answer 42

a ghost

Question 43

I do my best to smile, but the specter of the Grim Reaper _____________.

Answer 43

looms large