Chapter 9 The Circle And The Brotherhood A

Question 1

We should go, he said, _______ of the office and into the living room

Answer 1

stalking out

Question 2

The moon hung like a _____ oer the city, casting perly reflections on the water of the East River

Answer 2

locket

Question 3

The distant ____ of cars going by over the Williamsburg Bridge filled the humid air with a sound like beating wings

Answer 3

hums

Question 4

WE find it useful to inhabit ____- grounds

Answer 4

hallowed

Question 5

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

Answer 5

dump; bent iron fence

Question 6

Clary let her mind relax. She imagined herself taking one of her mother’s _________ and dabbing t the view in front of her

Answer 6

turpentine rags

Question 7

She saw the soaring ______ of the cathedra, the ___________ of the leaded windows, the brass plate fixed to the stone wall beside the door

Answer 7

spires; dull gleam

Question 8

Two things I could use right now ___________

Answer 8

incidentally

Question 9

Clary thought longingly of coffee as they made their way up a _______ of stone stairs, each one carved with a _____

Answer 9

winding set of; glyph

Question 10

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

Answer 10

tantalize

Question 11

In a few seconds Church appered, _______ to the ground, his yellow eyes gleaming in the dusty air

Answer 11

slinking low

Question 12

Jace _____ his nose, which Clary might have found ute in other circumstances

Answer 12

crinkled

Question 13

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 _________________

Answer 13

fall into step behind him

Question 14

LIke a sort of combination ________ and reserach facility

Answer 14

safe haven

Question 15

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

Answer 15

winding; through; clammy

Question 16

For Simon, clearly, there was nothing of that familiarity, only the sense of the strange, the alien and ____________

Answer 16

inimical

Question 17

It was an enormous kitchen, and unlike the rest of the Institute, it was all modern, with steel counters and _______ shelves holding rows of ________

Answer 17

glassed-in; crockery

Question 18

_____ piles of cheese; a whole fish, its eye staring _______ upward

Answer 18

grated; glassily

Question 19

She ____ the spoon back into the pot

Answer 19

plunged

Question 20

To Clary’s surprise, Simon said nothing to this. He was too busy staring at Isabelle, _____ and openmouthed

Answer 20

rapt

Question 21

I suppose not, she said, absently dropping a piece of ish on the floor, church _______ ravenously

Answer 21

fell on it

Question 22

I can’t believe you’ve been stuffing him with fish again. He’s looking distinctly _____

Answer 22

podgy

Question 23

Jace ____ toward the fridge

Answer 23

edged

Question 24

plastic _______ containers labelled with masking tape lettered in red ink

Answer 24

tupperware

Question 25

She shook her head.

Of course not, he said ______________________, you at e all those sandwiches

Answer 25

around a mouthful

Question 26

Jace set the container down and thoughfully licked spaghetti sauce off his ______

Answer 26

knuckle

Question 27

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

Answer 27

facade

Question 28

_____ 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 ___________

Answer 28

jagged; dazed; two-by-four