After an exhausting day, she could hear her stomach ______, reminding her that she hadn’t eaten since breakfast., grumbling, hissing, giggling, whispering, The writer doesn’t reveal who the frightening figures are because she wants to keep readers in ______., suspicion, surprise, suspense, silence, He wandered ______ through the muddy slush, with no destination in mind., steadily, aimlessly, directly, deliberately, The children tried to ______ their giggles when their teacher accidentally pulled a funny face., prevent, resist, refuse, stifle, By the time she reached home, her braid had ______, leaving her hair loose around her shoulders., unravelled, uncovered, unwrapped, unfolded, She remained completely ______, hoping the ferocious creature wouldn’t notice her beneath the table., restless, careless, motionless, speechless, “You probably found the walk relaxing.” “As a matter of ______, it was exhausting.”, truth, fact, reality, detail, His face turned puce with anger, but his companion’s expression remained ______., unwritten, unknown, invisible, unreadable, Water was ______ through the narrow pipe beneath the kitchen floor., gurgling, grumbling, rattling, rustling, She’s been ______ on the series since the first episode; she watches it every evening., attached, attracted, hooked, absorbed, The guard noticed a shiny ______ hidden underneath the stranger’s coat., shield, dagger, helmet, armour, The music stopped ______, and everyone turned towards the sudden commotion outside., eventually, gradually, regularly, abruptly, The organisers urged everyone ______ away from the burning building while firefighters put out the flames., to stay, staying, stay, stayed, I thought I recognised a frightening figure in the photograph, but a closer ______ showed it was only a coat hanging on a door., watch, sight, look, view, She wasn’t ______ of the ruckus outside because she was wearing headphones., familiar, aware, certain, known, We found the missing scales ______ a pile of towels and finally weighed the parcel., beyond, throughout, against, underneath, His story about a monster with jabbering jaws sounded impressive, but I suspected he had ______., made it up, put it out, passed it down, taken it over, The dragon opened its mouth and let out a long ______, like air escaping from a tyre., rhyme, giggle, hiss, wave, She was a ______ friend, someone he had known and trusted since childhood., lively, lifelong, living, lifetime, My notes were in such a ______ that I couldn’t work out which page came first., mixture, bundle, crowd, muddle, He described himself as a natural wrangler: he couldn’t resist starting an ______ over the smallest disagreement., argument, announcement, explanation, arrangement, The frightening figures in his drawings became more ferocious as the story took a darker ______., road, way, turn, move, The noise is likely to ______ if we leave the window open; the builders are starting work outside., enlarge, worsen, deepen, strengthen, She gave a quick ______ towards the door, then returned to reading her book., stare, gaze, glimpse, glance, The words “night” and “fright” ______, which made them useful for her spooky poem., rhyme, repeat, refer, resemble, He was rather put ______ when nobody thanked him for clearing up after the commotion., away, down, out, off, The politician and his ______ were accused of giving important jobs to their friends., strangers, cronies, opponents, passengers, The children began to ______ faces at one another, and soon the whole class was laughing out loud., do, give, turn, pull, The contrast between her carefree smile and the chaos around her struck me as rather ______., odd, ordinary, familiar, typical, In the novel, a spy had ______ the group by pretending to be a lifelong friend of its leader. Meanwhile, outside, waves washed muddy slush from the tarmac., interrupted, investigated, infiltrated, introduced

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