Chapter 4 Ravener Flashcards
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She _________ impatiently on the ____ of her feet while traffic _____________ in a blur of headlights
jittered up and down; balls; whized by
Her eyes were _______ the dimness
adjusting to
The woman was ________ into it like an overstuffed cushion
wedged
Your mother, Dorothea said, has been making a ___________ up there
god-awful racket
And the ____________ light’s burned out, did you notice
stairwell
The skylight needs washing too It’s filthy. No wonder it’s nearly _____________ in here
pitch-black
Once she got Luke to come around and change the lightbulb, she’d ask him to do a hundred other things–ick up her groceries, _____ her shower
grout
once she’d made him _______ an old sofa with an axe so she could get it out of the apartment without taking the door off the ______
chop up; hinges
Clary’s sense that something was wrong only increased when she reached the apartment door. It was unlocked, hanging slightly open, spilling a _______________________ onto the landing
wedge-shaped shaft of light
landing
a level part of a staircase (as at the end of a flight of stairs)
Her mother’s keys and pink handbag were on the small _____ shelf by the door, where she always left them
wrought iron
she went into the living room. Both windows were open, yards of __________ white curtains blowing in the breeze like restless ghosts
gauzy
gauzy
gauz·y /ˈɡôzē/ Learn to pronounce adjective resembling gauze; thin and translucent. "a gauzy dress"
Clary see that the cushions had been ripped from the sofa and scattered around the room. Some were torn lengthwise, cotton ______ spilling onto the floor
innards
The bookshelves had been ______, their contents scattered
tipped over
gAPE
gaped, gap·ing.
to stare with open mouth, as in wonder. to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
mOST TERRIFYING WERE THE PAINTINGS. eVERY SINGLE ONE HAD BEEN CUT FROM ITS FRAME AND RIPPED INTO _______
STRIPS
tHE EMPTY FRAMES LOOKED LIKE _______________
bones picked clean
It was empty, the cabinet doors open, a smacshed bottle of Tabasco sauce spilling peppery red liquid onto the ______________
linoleum
Clary’s own face smiled back at her from the top of the bedside table, five years old, _____________ smile framed by strawberry hair.
gap-toothed smile
no, not silence–a noise sounded through the apartment, raising the short hairs along the _____ of her neck
nape
It was crouched against the floor, a long, scaled creature witha _________ of flat black eys set dead center in the front of its _______ skull
cluster; domed
it had a thick, flat _____ and a ______ tail that whipped menacingly from side to side
snout; barbed
snout
snout /snout/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal.
