Chapter 1 Pandemonium B Flashcards by Vivian Lee

The blue-haired boy was ___________________ the dance floor

making his way off

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Oh, well, clary thought, trying not to feel like a __________________

deflated party balloon

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Sion hated _______ music.

trance

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It wasn’t anything Clary hadn’t seen before, a couple ____________________ the dark corners of the club to ____________

sneaking off to; make out

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The girl ____ her an evil look

shot

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Simon was still tring to ______ his way across the dance floor

shove

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What faint light there was in the storage room ____________________ high barred windows smeared with dirt

spilled down trhough

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PIles of electrical cables, along with __________________________ and discarded paint cans, littered the floor

broken bits of mirrored disco balls

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There was some sort of bracelet around her wrist, just under the __________ of her dress–then, as he neared her, he saw that it wasn’t a bracelet at all but a pattern ______________ her skin, a _______ of swirling lines

cuff; inked into; matrix

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he didn’t finish. She moved with lightning swiftness, ________________________ him with her open hand, a blow to his chest that would have _________________________ if he’d been a human being

striking out at him; sent him down gasping

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he ______, and now there was something in her hand, a coiling whip that __________ gold as she __________, _______________, _____________

staggered back; glinted; brought it down, curling around his ankles, jerking him off his feet

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he hit the ground, _________, writhing, the hated metal biting deep into his skin

writhing

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writhing

writhing
/ˈrīT͟HiNG/
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adjective
making twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body.
"a writhing heap of maggots"

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isabelle ________ the whip, securing it

yanked hard on the whip

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a boy, as young as Isabelle and just as pretty. His _______ eyes glittered like chips of amber

tawny

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it was as if they had ______________________ between one bink of her eyes and the next

sprung into existence

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The fair boy was standing with his hands in his pockets, facing the _______________, who was tied to a pillar with what looked like piano wire

punk kid

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his face was _________ with pain and fear

pulled tight

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punk

punk. A punk is a young troublemaker. If your elderly neighbor thinks of you as a young punk, he either thinks all kids are bad — or you did something that really disturbed him. The Algonquin word for dust or ashes, ponk is the most likely root of punk, which originally described rotten wood used to start fires.

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clary ducked behind the nearest concerete pillar and ________________________

peered around it

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she watched as the fiar-haired boy paced back and forth, his arms now __________________

crossed over his chest

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Clary woundered what he was talking about. Maybe she’d stumbled into some kind of ___________

gang war

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the blue haried boy’s tone was pained but _______

surly

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surly

sur·ly
/ˈsərlē/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
bad-tempered and unfriendly.
"he left with a surly expression"

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demons, __________ the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger

drawled

drawl

``` drawl /drôl/ Learn to pronounce verb speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds. "“Suits me fine,” he drawled" ```

demons, drawled the blond boy, _____ the word _____ the air with his finger.

tracing on

demons, drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. Religiously defined as hell's _____________, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purpose of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension

denizens

denizen

``` den·i·zen /ˈdenəzən/ Learn to pronounce noun FORMAL•HUMOROUS an inhabitant or occupant of a particular place. "denizens of field and forest" ```

Jace raised his hand, and Clary saw dim light ____________ the knife he was holding

spark off

It was oddly ____________, the blade clear as crystal, sharp as __________________; the _____ set with red stones

translucent; a shard of glass; hilt

The bound boy gasped. VAlentine is back! he protested, dragging at the _____ that held his hands behind his back

bonds

Rage _____ suddenly in Jace's icy eyes

flared

that's true, admitted jace, _____ the knife between his fingers

twirling

He pointed at the boy with blue hair, whose eyes were ____________

slitted

at that moment the blue-haired boy, with a high, ___________________, tore free of the restraints binding him to the pillar, and _____ himself ___ Jace

yowling cry; flung; on

The _____ the gournd and _____ together

fell to; roll

Clary backed up, wan ting to run, but her feet ________ a loop of wiring and he went down

caught on

Blod ______ at the tips of his razorlike claws

gleamed

Isabelle and Alec were running toward them, Isabelle _______ a whip in her hand

brandishing

The blue-haired boy _______ Jace with claws extended

slashed

Swift as a _____ of Isabelle's whip, Jace rolled over

flick

He sank the knife into the blue-haired boy's chest. Blackish liquid _______ around the hilt

exploded

The boy __________ the floor, gurgling and twisting

arched off

The boy arched off the floor, ___________________

gurgling and twisting

The hilt was ____ with black fluid

slick

The blue-ahired boy's eyes ________________ open

flickered

Jace seemed to ________. The boy's eyes rolled back. His body began to ______ as he crumpled

snarl

Clary turned to run--and found her way blocked by Isabelle, _____________________

whip in hand

The gold length of it was stained with dark fluid. she _____ it toward Clary, and the end wrapped itself around her wrist and _____________

flicked; jerked tight

He's crzy, Clary said, trying to pull he wrist back. The whip ____ deeper ____ her skin

bit deeper into

Jace drew his arm away. A ghoulish ________ of blood marked his face

freckling

The whip _____ away, freeing Clary's arm

slithered

HAVE YOU HAD DEALINGS WITH DEMONS, LITTLE GIRL, walked with _________, talked with the night children

warlocks

One of the ________ who'd been stamping hands at the front door was next to him

burly

he grinned at her and _____ a half apologetic, half mocking shrug

dropped

standing at the curb, tried desperately to ________

hail a cab

Simon raised his hand over his head, but the oncoming taxis ___________________, spraying dirty water

whizzed

she glanced down at her wrist, _______________ by a thin red line where Isabelle's whip had curled

braceleted

lay into

[lay into someone] to attack someone physically or with cruel words because you are angry with them My parents really laid into me for being so late. Synonyms and related words

to attack

[lay into someone] to attack someone physically or with cruel words because you are angry with them My parents really laid into me for being so late. Synonyms and related words