Chapter 9 The Circle And The Brotherhood A Flashcards
We should go, he said, _______ of the office and into the living room
stalking out
The moon hung like a _____ oer the city, casting perly reflections on the water of the East River
locket
The distant ____ of cars going by over the Williamsburg Bridge filled the humid air with a sound like beating wings
hums
WE find it useful to inhabit ____- grounds
hallowed
I get that but, no offense, this place is a _____, Simon said, looking dubiously at the ___________________ that surrounded the acinet bilding, the etrash piled up beside the steps
dump; bent iron fence
Clary let her mind relax. She imagined herself taking one of her mother’s _________ and dabbing t the view in front of her
turpentine rags
She saw the soaring ______ of the cathedra, the ___________ of the leaded windows, the brass plate fixed to the stone wall beside the door
spires; dull gleam
Two things I could use right now ___________
incidentally
Clary thought longingly of coffee as they made their way up a _______ of stone stairs, each one carved with a _____
winding set of; glyph
thye _______ her sight the way half-heard words in a foreign language sometimes tantalized her hearing, as if by just concentrating harder she could force some meaning out of them
tantalize
In a few seconds Church appered, _______ to the ground, his yellow eyes gleaming in the dusty air
slinking low
Jace _____ his nose, which Clary might have found ute in other circumstances
crinkled
Jace followed the cat as if this were the most natural thing in the world, indicating with a wae of his hand that Clary and Simon were to _________________
fall into step behind him
LIke a sort of combination ________ and reserach facility
safe haven
She could hear the nerves under his flippant tone. Instead of shushing him, Clary reached down and took his hand, ____ her fingers _____ his cold ones. His hand was ______, but he returned the pressure with a grateful squeeze
winding; through; clammy
For Simon, clearly, there was nothing of that familiarity, only the sense of the strange, the alien and ____________
inimical
It was an enormous kitchen, and unlike the rest of the Institute, it was all modern, with steel counters and _______ shelves holding rows of ________
glassed-in; crockery
_____ piles of cheese; a whole fish, its eye staring _______ upward
grated; glassily
She ____ the spoon back into the pot
plunged
To Clary’s surprise, Simon said nothing to this. He was too busy staring at Isabelle, _____ and openmouthed
rapt
I suppose not, she said, absently dropping a piece of ish on the floor, church _______ ravenously
fell on it
I can’t believe you’ve been stuffing him with fish again. He’s looking distinctly _____
podgy
Jace ____ toward the fridge
edged
plastic _______ containers labelled with masking tape lettered in red ink
tupperware
She shook her head.
Of course not, he said ______________________, you at e all those sandwiches
around a mouthful
Jace set the container down and thoughfully licked spaghetti sauce off his ______
knuckle
She wondered how often he let glimpses of his real self peek through the _________ tht was as hard and shiny as the coat of lacquer on one of her mother’s Japanese boxes
facade
_____ bits of dark hari fell into his eyes; he looked stupidly _____, Clary thought unkindly, as if someone had hit him across the back of the head witha ___________
jagged; dazed; two-by-four
