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(The Vocabulary and the Fill in the Blanks is part of the book The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Vocabulary
Aghast: Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Bewail: Regret strongly.
Circumspect: Heedfulof potential consequences.
Coherent: Marked by an orderly.
Congenial: Suitable to your needs.
Covet: Wish, long, or crave for.
Elicit: Deduce or construe.
Equivocal: Open to question.
Fiendish: Extremely evil or cruel.
Flounder: Walk with great difficulty.
Forbear: Refrain from doing.
Impassive: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
Onerous: Not easily borne; wearing.
Pallid: Deficient in colour suggesting physical or emotional distress.
Propitious: Presenting favourable circumstances.
Ruse: A deceptive manoeuvre, especially to avoid capture.
Scion: A descendant or heir.
Slovenly: Negligent or neatness especially in dress and person.
Uncanny: Surpassing the
Wanton: Unprovoked or without motive or justification.

Fill in the Blanks
A. He leaned back, put his fingertips together, and assumed his most _______ and judicial expression.
B. It is a short account of the facts _______ at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that day.
C. In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the _______ of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune...
D. Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was _______ for my excursion.
E. And while the revellers stood _______ at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
F. It seemed hopeless to pursue the any farther, but it was clear that in spite of Holmes's _______ we have no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.
G. Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be _______ in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
H. This, in truth, his neighbours might have pardoned, seeing that saints have never flourished in those parts, but there was in him a certain _______ and cruel humour which made his name a byword through the West.
I. To that the Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to _______ from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
J. The thing takes shape, Watson. It becomes _______.
K. Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for _______ his untimely end.
L. So there is one of our small mysteries cleared up. It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are _______.
M. A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I _______ your skull.
N. Tomorrow morning I shall find my way to the Coombe Tracey, and if I can see this Mrs. Laura Lyons, of _______ reputation, a long step will have been made towards clearing one incident in this chain of mysteries.
O. He was clad in a professional but rather _______ fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
P. It seemed to me that the _______ features of the butler turned a shade paler still as he listened to his master's question.
Q. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this _______ man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
R. Holmes returned to his seat with that quiet look of inward satisfaction which meant that he had a _______ task before him.
S. "Yes, it's rather and _______ place altogether. Look at the hillside yonder. What do you make of those?"
T. By the way, your instructions to me never allow Sir Henry to go out alone will become very much more _______ if a love affair were to be added to our other difficulties.

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