Scholastic Assessment Test Vocabulary: Attitudes

The kitchen timer showed four minutes, and Luis hovered with a towel, an apprehensive eye on the caramel that had already scorched once on Tuesday. Which coming trouble is he braced for?

He expects the sugar to burn again and cannot relax while the pan darkens.

In the newsroom after midnight, Amina's ardent note on the housing draft filled the margin: 'This is the piece the city actually needs.' How much personal fire does ardent give that note?

The margin note is a passionate, wholehearted push for the housing story, the kind of heat that fills the space beside the draft.

At the clinic's front desk, a man in a torn jacket turned belligerent when the nurse said the lab closed at 4:10, not 4:30. The jacket and the raised voice add up to what stance?

Voice up at the front desk, he has turned the 4:10 closing into a fight.

The workshop teacher slid a spare pair of goggles across the bench with a benevolent smile after Malik forgot his in the locker. The gesture looks out for Malik in what way?

The spare goggles come with a kindly wish that Malik stay safe and unembarrassed.

On the late bus, Priya's candid review of the group project landed in a whisper: 'I did the slides, and Jordan did almost nothing.' How openly is she willing to place the blame?

She is saying the awkward truth in plain words, without softening Jordan's share for the ride home.

Room 118 went quiet after Mr. Hale's caustic line about the poster: 'Bold letters, and not one fact that survives a second look.' That comment landed with what kind of burn?

Bold letters get no mercy from him, and the bitter sharpness of the line quiets room 118.

Grandma kept her answer circumspect while the soup boiled, saying only that the landlord 'might be reasonable' and refusing to guess a dollar figure. Her careful wording is circumspect in what way?

She is stepping around a firm promise, cautious about a rent talk she cannot control from the stove.

The night editor looked complacent with the front page already sent, feet on a drawer. The scanner still blinked with unread mail. Feet up, mail still coming: what comfort is he allowing himself?

He feels satisfied that the job is finished and has stopped watching for a late problem.

Dr. Shah set the chart down and tried a conciliatory tone: 'We can repeat the hearing test Thursday if today felt rushed.' The offer of Thursday is trying to accomplish what?

She is lowering the temperature in the exam room, giving the parent a next step so the visit ends less angry.

In the metal shop, a senior gave the freshman weld a contemptuous once-over and snorted, 'That's a decoration, not a joint.' The snort treats that bead as what?

Calling the weld a decoration means he looks down on it as something beneath a real joint.

By the classroom sink, Elena was contrite, paper towels already in her hands, whispering that the spilled ink was her elbow. Naming the spill that way puts her in what state of mind?

She regrets the mess and is ready to say the fault was hers.

The line cook laughed a cynical laugh when the owner posted a sign about 'family' and then cut two Saturday shifts. That laugh trusts the word on the sign how much?

The laugh treats the word 'family' as a cover for cutting two Saturday shifts, a warm sign he reads as selfish.

At the copy desk, 6:40 in the morning, the new hire's deferential 'If you think the lede should change, of course' came before she had read the paragraph aloud. What posture toward the editor is that early yes?

She is yielding to his rank and treating his taste as the one that counts, even before her own reading.

The boy on the clinic scale crossed his arms, defiant, and told the aide he would not discuss his lunch in front of his uncle. Arms crossed, lunch off-limits: what refusal is in that pose?

Crossed arms and a refused lunch talk show he is openly resisting the aide.

The lathe jammed for the third time. Chris sat despondent on a stool, goggles up, staring at a bowl that was still a block of maple. The wood has not become a bowl. Where has his hope for it gone?

Goggles up and the maple still a block, he has sunk into a heavy discouragement about getting a bowl today.

On the crowded bus, Noor's diffident 'I might have the date wrong' was almost lost under the announcement for Stop 9. What keeps that correction so small?

She is unsure of herself and shy about claiming the date out loud where everyone can hear.

Ms. Vidal read the two essay scores in a dispassionate voice, 88 and 91, and moved on to the rubric without praising either student. How emotionally involved is she in those two numbers?

She reads 88 and 91 with an even coolness, then moves to the rubric without adding personal warmth.

Uncle Ray grew dogmatic over the skillet, insisting a frittata must have exactly six eggs and that any herb but thyme was a mistake. Six eggs, thyme only: what sort of certainty is he enforcing?

He treats his cooking rule as the only correct one and leaves the kitchen no other way.

The city editor's dubious squint landed on the quote 'every student agreed,' a line with no count attached. A claim that tidy draws what reaction from him?

His squint doubts 'every student agreed,' a claim too tidy to trust when no count is attached.

When the rapid test came back negative, the little girl was ebullient, spinning once in the clinic hallway and announcing she could go to the recital. What mood takes over the hallway once that result is in?

A negative test sends her spinning toward the recital, high spirits too big for the chair.

The shop steward's effusive thanks ran past a full minute, naming the donated sandpaper, the clamps, and even the person who carried the box from the parking lot. How fully is that gratitude spilling?

It pours out in a flood of praise, far past a short thank-you at the bench.

By the fourth time the bus kneelers stuck, the driver's exasperated 'We will sit here until they behave' had no humor left in it. What has the repeated delay done to her patience?

Four stuck kneelers have worn her patience down to a sentence of pure irritation.

In seminar, Malik's fervent reading of the last paragraph made two people put their pens down, especially on the line about the river. Pens stop. What intensity of belief is in his voice?

Pens go down because he means the river lines with an intense, sincere heat the seminar can hear.

In the newsroom, the restaurant critic ended on a flippant line about bringing a book, since the kitchen needed an extra half hour. A diner had waited 90 minutes. In what spirit does the book joke take a 90-minute wait?

The book joke handles a 90-minute wait lightly, as if the delay were only a punch line.

Asked who had started the argument in the kitchen, Sam gave a guarded 'People were tired' and named nobody. Which part of the fight never makes it into his answer?

He names nobody. 'People were tired' is as much of the kitchen fight as he is willing to give.

From the newsroom balcony, the visiting columnist gave the interns a haughty nod, as if their desks were a floor below his concerns. That nod from above grants them what status?

The balcony nod notices the interns while placing their desks beneath his concerns.

The dentist stayed impassive while the X-ray loaded, neither a wince nor a smile, though the patient was watching her face for a verdict. A patient watching for a verdict gets what from that face?

No verdict comes back. The dentist's face stays blank while the X-ray loads, and no feeling slips out.

Mr. Pappas was incredulous that the robot arm in period 5 had folded 40 towels and then flung the 41st at the shop ceiling. What can he not bring himself to accept?

Forty neat towels and one flung at the ceiling leave him unable to believe the arm actually did it.

When the bus driver asked window or aisle, the boy was indifferent and said, 'Either, I'm getting off in two stops.' 'Either' reveals what about his seat preference?

Window and aisle are the same to him. Two stops is too short a ride to bother choosing.

The nurse's indignant reply carried down the clinic hall: 'That child waited 70 minutes, and the sign still says 15.' Seventy minutes under a sign that promised 15. What is driving that reply down the hall?

She is angry that a child waited 70 minutes under a sign that promised 15.

During the moment of silence in homeroom, Jules's irreverent doodle turned the principal's portrait into a lighthouse. The drawing breaks what expected respect?

A lighthouse drawn over the principal, in the middle of the homeroom silence, treats that ritual as joke material.

Chef Nia tasted the 11th sample of 'new' tomato sauce and gave a jaded shrug: 'Same sugar, new label.' What has too many tastings done to her excitement?

By sample 11, the same sugar under a new label has worn her excitement down to a shrug.

The workshop radio confirmed the grant, and Mr. Ellison was jubilant, knocking a rhythm on the vise and telling third period the new lathe was funded. The knock on the vise is celebrating what?

The knock on the vise is triumphant joy, because the grant means third period really gets the new lathe.

Rosa lost the newsroom's headline vote 6 to 4. She was magnanimous anyway, telling the winner his verb was stronger and offering to write the deck. What does that offer say about her feeling for the winner?

After losing 6 to 4, she praises his verb and still offers to write the deck, generous toward the winner.

The clinic's closing music was a slow piano, and Dr. Nguyen looked melancholy, remembering the nurse of 30 years who had retired that morning. Slow piano at closing, and a nurse who left after 30 years. What mood is he in?

The slow piano and a nurse of 30 years leave him in a quiet sadness that lingers on her last morning.

Rain hit the bus windshield in sheets. Someone asked about the 7:15 arrival. The driver's fatalistic answer was that they would get there when the hill allowed it. What belief about the delay is he stating?

He treats the rain and the hill as the real schedule. The 7:15 arrival has already left his plans.

In foods class, Asha was nonchalant about the smoke alarm, waving a towel and saying the popovers always did that on batch two. How alarmed does she wish to appear?

She waves a towel at the alarm as if batch two always smoked, casually unconcerned in front of the class.

The copy chief grew nostalgic over paste-up boards stored above the printers, telling a cub reporter about a snowstorm edition from 1998. Which earlier newsroom is she longing for?

The paste-up boards carry her back to the snowstorm edition of 1998, a newsroom she misses.

The new aide's obsequious 'Whatever you prefer, Doctor, truly, I already reprinted it twice' came with a bow that made the patient blink. A bow, and the page already reprinted twice. How far has this helpfulness gone?

A bow, plus two reprints already done, pushes the offer into flattery. He is overly eager to please the person in the white coat.

Even with the weld still cracked, Andre stayed optimistic, telling the shop he could finish all 12 brackets before the bell if the second rod ran true. What ending is he counting on?

He is counting on the second rod to save the cracked weld and still finish all 12 brackets before the bell.

The substitute looked pessimistic about the quiz key, warning the class that half of them would miss number 7, same as last year. What outcome is she treating as likely before anyone writes?

With pencils still down, she expects half the class to miss number 7, the same poor result as last year.

When the bigger mixing bowl was already in use, Theo turned petulant, pushing the smaller one away and muttering that nobody ever left him the good tools. How would you describe the mood in that mutter?

He sulks over the smaller bowl, peevishly impatient that the good tools went to someone else.

While three phones rang at the clinic desk, the senior nurse stayed placid, checking a chart at the same pace she had used all morning. What temper is she holding onto?

Three phones ring at the desk. She keeps checking the chart at the morning's pace, calm straight through the noise.

From the back of the bus, a plaintive 'Are we there yet?' came from a child who had already asked at Main and again at Oak. The question has already come at Main and at Oak. What tone rides in the third asking?

Asked at Main and again at Oak, the third 'Are we there yet' comes out weary and pleading.

The department head's querulous memo complained that the classroom chairs had been two inches too close to the wall for weeks. Two inches of chair space, complained about for weeks. What habit does the memo put on display?

Two inches of chair space, fussed over for weeks, comes out of him as a peevish whine.

The editor tilted her head, quizzical, at a caption that said the mayor had 'almost certainly' attended all 14 meetings. Where does that head tilt leave the claim of all 14 meetings?

It leaves the claim hanging. She is puzzled by 'almost certainly' and has not been convinced.

Stuck labeling jars while his brother took the workshop's only soldering iron, Ben stayed resentful through all 30 labels. Label 30, and his brother still has the only iron. What is Ben holding onto?

Thirty labels in, he is still bitter that his brother took the only soldering iron. The unfair split stays with him while he writes.

The clerk explained that the 40-minute delay now owned the whole afternoon. The patient signed the longer intake, resigned, and capped her pen. What fight has she given up?

She signs the longer intake and caps the pen. The delay owns the afternoon, and she has accepted it.

The school paper interviewed the baker in the kitchen just after dawn. He was reticent, offering only that it was a family recipe and nothing about the 3 a.m. start. What is he declining to put into words?

A family recipe is all the dawn interview gets. The 3 a.m. start stays unspoken.

Students filed into the classroom museum corner in a reverent quiet, some of them not touching the glass over the debate trophy from 1924. What feeling keeps their hands off that glass?

Hands stay off the glass. The quiet around the 1924 trophy is deep respect for the history under it.

The columnist's sardonic line, 'Another task force, the city's favorite way to applaud itself,' ran under a photo of 18 empty chairs. How is he treating the task force in that line?

Under those empty chairs, the line sneers at the task force with a dry, unfriendly mockery.

Coach Ibarra looked skeptical of the claimed 6-minute mile and would not write it on the classroom board until she saw the watch. Holding that 6-minute mile off the board shows what frame of mind?

She is unconvinced. A classmate's say-so stays off the board until the watch is in her hand.

The workshop usually roared, but Mr. Kent's announcement of the retired teacher's death was solemn, and even the radio stayed off. What tone did he choose for that news?

He switches the radio off and gives the news of the death a grave, serious voice over the quieted machines.

Gray light over the clinic parking lot fit the somber waiting room, where a family spoke in low voices about a surgery set for six in the morning. What heavy mood fills that room?

Low voices, a surgery at six, and gray light over the lot leave the waiting room darkly serious.

On the bus with a sprained wrist, Dana was stoic. She answered 'It's fine' while her jaw stayed tight for nine stops. What pain is she declining to perform for the other riders?

'It's fine' covers nine stops. Her jaw stays tight, and the sprained wrist stays her own business.

The guest lecturer's supercilious glance swept the classroom posters and paused, unimpressed, on a thesis about bus routes. The glance stops, unimpressed, on a thesis about bus routes. What has he already decided about that work?

The glance has already judged. A thesis on bus routes sits beneath him, before the argument is even heard.

Denied a second ladle at the cafeteria kitchen, the diner turned truculent, shoulders up, daring the server to say the pot was empty. The server is being pushed toward what?

Shoulders up over the empty stew pot, he is fiercely ready to make the server's refusal into a confrontation.

The letter to the editor was vehement about the 22-student cap, the word 'unacceptable' underlined twice in blue. How forcefully is the writer feeling that cap?

Underlining 'unacceptable' twice shows how intensely he opposes the cap of 22.

After the clinic shifted her hours, Marisol's vindictive note proposed moving the scheduler to the five-in-the-morning shift 'so she can enjoy it too.' What does she want that early shift to do to the scheduler?

She wants the scheduler to suffer the same dawn hour, a penalty aimed back at the person who changed her schedule.

The shop teacher was wary of the bargain blades, checking three edges before he let anyone near the band saw. What risk is he guarding against?

He checks three edges before anyone nears the band saw. A bargain price leaves him on guard for a bad blade.

At the classroom window, Owen grew wistful about the empty field, saying he wished he had marched with the band that practiced there until dark. What sad wish is he entertaining?

He wishes he had marched with the band that used that field until dark. The empty grass makes the wish a sad one.

The fact-checker was zealous about street numbers, flagging a single wrong digit in a story that ran 1,100 words. Why is one digit enough to stop a story that long?

One wrong digit is enough, in her hands, to stop a story of 1,100 words. The care for getting the street right is intense.

Asked to vote on pizza or stew for the late kitchen shift, half the crew was apathetic and left the slip blank. What interest did those blank slips fail to muster?

Blank slips mean the choice between pizza and stew stirred no feeling in half the late crew.

The critic's acerbic summary of the play, 'Two hours, one idea, none of it seasoned,' ran in the Friday arts box of the paper. How does that one line treat the production?

The summary bites. 'None of it seasoned' is a sour, cutting judgment of two hours on stage.

New to the clinic, Dr. Ortiz stayed aloof in the break room, eating at the end of the table while the others argued about a 12-hour shift. How far from the group's feeling is he sitting?

He eats at the far end of the table. The argument over a 12-hour shift never reaches his seat.

The bus pass machine rejected a perfectly flat card, and the rider looked bemused, turning it over as if the plastic had developed a private opinion. A flat card, turned over and over. What state has the machine left him in?

He turns a perfectly flat card over and still cannot tell why the machine refused it. The puzzlement is all over his face.

Touring the newsroom's new drone, the veteran photographer was blasé, saying she had flown three like it over the river already. Why does the new machine fail to impress her?

She has already flown three like it over the river, so the new drone is old news. The wonder has worn off.

With 9 of 30 cabinet doors still unstained, the workshop lead stayed sanguine and promised the client a Thursday delivery anyway. What outlook is holding that promise up?

A rosy confidence that the unstained doors will turn out well and still make Thursday.

Hearing that a classmate had fainted in the hall, the boy in the back row made a callous joke about free drama and returned to his worksheet. The joke treats the collapse as what?

He turns a classmate's faint into a joke about free drama and goes back to the worksheet, unmoved by the person on the floor.

The food editor's censorious column listed 14 health-code points against the cafeteria, each one a separate scolding. Fourteen separate scoldings fill one column. What stance is she taking toward that kitchen?

Fourteen separate health-code scoldings show her sitting in harsh judgment on the cafeteria.

Parents asked the clinic to move the vaccine hour from seven to eight. The director stayed intransigent: the slot had been seven for six years and would stay seven. What about her decision refuses to move?

Seven in the morning has been the slot for six years. A request to move it to eight meets a decision that stays put.

The shop aide noticed a freshman blinking hard over a ruined birdhouse and, compassionate, set a fresh piece of pine on the bench without a lecture. What feeling for the student guided that choice?

Fresh pine lands on the bench, with no lecture, because he feels the freshman's disappointment and wants to ease it.

'How brave of you to try a thesis,' the tutor said in a condescending singsong, as if the senior were a child with a crayon. The singsong calls a senior's thesis brave. What is unpleasant about the way that praise lands?

The singsong 'how brave' praises the senior in a voice that talks down, as if the thesis were a crayon drawing.

The activity bus broke down past County Road 12. A text said tip-off would not wait, and the team manager was crestfallen, phone still lit in his hand. What just happened to the excitement he carried onto the bus?

Word that tip-off will not wait knocks the excitement out of him, the phone still lit past County Road 12.

A derisive whistle followed the classroom presentation when slide 8 still said placeholder text in front of 27 people. Placeholder text is still on slide 8. What is the whistle doing in front of those 27 people?

The whistle mocks him in front of 27 people, scorning a slide that still says placeholder text.

After the broth boiled over and the dumplings split, the cook sat disconsolate on the step stool. An offer of a second batch did not help. How low has this cook sunk?

The dumplings have split, and a fresh batch does not lift him. He stays on the step stool, past comfort.

The editor allowed a grudging 'fine' when the reporter asked for 200 more words, and she did not look up from the budget. How freely was that extra space granted?

The extra 200 words get a 'fine' and no glance up from the budget. Reluctance sits in that clipped syllable.

At the clinic doorway, the volunteer's earnest promise, 'I will stay until the last chart is filed,' came without a joke attached. No joke comes with the promise to stay for the last chart. What gives that offer its weight?

No joke rides along with the promise. He intends to stay until the last chart is filed, and the offer is sincere.

Asked whether the workshop would host the Saturday fair, the principal's equivocal email said the space was 'under review' and 'possibly available.' How firmly does the email pick a side?

'Under review' and 'possibly available' keep Saturday cloudy on purpose, so the fair can still lean either way.

Two anchors would not share the newsroom microwave. The animosity was old: a seating chart from March still had their names on opposite ends. What between the two anchors has had time to harden?

A seating chart from March still keeps them at opposite ends, and the shared microwave remains a sore point of hostility months later.

Ms. Greer admitted an antipathy for group grades, having disliked them since a college lab where four people shared one microscope. She traces group grades back to one shared microscope. What feeling about those grades never left?

Group grades have rubbed her the wrong way since four students shared one microscope. The dislike settled in during college and stayed.

The bus driver felt chagrin when he called Stop 4 and then saw, in the mirror, that the passenger had asked for Stop 14. What mix of feelings hits him in the mirror?

Annoyance braided with embarrassment, because the wrong stop was his own mistake.

Halfway through serving herself the larger pork chop, the cook felt a compunction and put it back for her sister, who had worked the longer shift. What inner check makes her put the larger chop back?

The larger chop goes back on the platter. Conscience says the better piece belongs to the sister who worked the longer shift.

The projector in room 209 showed the final exam dated October 3, a Friday the class had believed was a teacher workday. Consternation moved through the rows. What does that date do to the mood of the room?

It throws the rows into alarmed dismay, a Friday they had counted as a workday suddenly sitting on the exam calendar.

The intern's credulity showed when she typed a caller's claim, that a sinkhole had swallowed a whole bus, straight into the web story. A claim about a swallowed bus goes straight onto the site. What habit of mind let her type it?

She believed a dramatic claim at once and did not stop to test it.

During the family meeting in the clinic conference room, the specialist spoke with detachment, reviewing a 4-centimeter mass as if it were a map symbol. What personal feeling stays outside his sentences?

A 4-centimeter mass gets discussed like a map symbol, his voice kept clear of the fear at the table.

A senior in the wood shop looked at the pine birdhouse with open disdain, muttering that real work used walnut. 'Real work used walnut,' aimed at a pine birdhouse. How does he regard the project?

Walnut, he says, is real work, and the pine birdhouse sits beneath that standard in his eyes.

When the inspector scored the line a 99, elation went through the kitchen, and somebody rang a ladle on a pot for a full five seconds. A ladle rings for five seconds after a score of 99. What has lifted the line?

A score of 99 lifts the kitchen into a bright joy loud enough for five seconds of ladle on pot.

The reporter did not take notes for a minute. Empathy held her while the tenant described 11 nights without heat. What is she doing with that hardship in the pause?

For that minute the notebook stays shut because she is feeling the eleven heatless nights with him.

The two lab partners requested separate benches after a public argument in September. Their enmity was no secret in the classroom. What relationship does that request confess?

Separate benches after the September argument show a deep hostility, the feeling of lab partners who have become opponents.

A tray crashed in the cafeteria kitchen, and the head cook kept her equanimity, pointing two people to towels and never raising her voice. What balance is she holding?

Two people are sent for towels. Her voice stays level, mind even, while the tray is still on the floor.

The score, 28 to 21, was still being shouted from the front of the bus to the back. The euphoria lasted the whole ride home from the regional final. What level have their spirits hit?

Shouting 28 to 21 from the front of the bus to the back is joy turned all the way up for the whole ride home.

The scanner mentioned structural damage at the high school and then went quiet for three minutes. Foreboding settled on the newsroom in that gap. What feeling occupies the newsroom then?

A heavy sense that bad news is on the way, before anyone knows what the damage actually is.

A boast that one person could rewire all 40 stations before lunch, with no second pair of hands and no diagram, was pure hubris in the workshop. How highly is he rating himself against 40 stations and no diagram?

Forty stations, no diagram, and a lunch bell, and he still pictures himself alone with the wire. The pride runs past caution.

After her essay won the classroom contest, Imani's humility kept the speech to four sentences, including one that named the teacher who had cut the opening. How is she sizing her own part in the prize?

Four sentences are the whole speech. One of them gives the cut opening back to her teacher.

The clinic billing desk charged a copay the family had already paid on the 2nd. Ire flattened the father's voice until it was hard and low. What emotion does that second charge bring up?

The copay from the 2nd shows up again, and his voice goes hard and low. Anger has taken the place of politeness.

The baker had a misgiving about the new yeast, pausing with the scoop over a bowl sized for 48 rolls. The scoop hovers over a bowl meant for 48 rolls. What is living in that pause?

The scoop hangs over a bowl sized for 48 rolls. She doubts the new yeast too much to commit the whole batch.

In the English classroom, the last paragraph of the school profile showed a senior packing a band uniform into a box after the program lost its funding. The pathos of that ending quieted the room. What feeling is the paragraph built to awaken?

A band uniform folded into a box, after the funding died, is there to stir pity and a tender sadness.

Fourteen months after a byline dispute, rancor still flavored the Monday meeting in the newsroom. The byline fight is 14 months old. What is still sitting in the Monday meeting?

Fourteen months have passed since the byline fight. The bitterness is still seated at the Monday meeting.

When a student went pale near the kiln, solicitude sent the shop teacher across the room with a stool and a glass of water. He crosses the shop with a stool and water the moment her color drops. What sends him?

Pale beside the kiln, she gets a stool and a glass of water because his anxious care sends him across the shop.

Jonah stayed in his seat on the bus an extra stop, rereading a text that began 'We need to talk about your grade in chemistry,' held there by trepidation. What feeling spends that extra stop with him?

The chemistry text holds him through an extra stop. He is nervously afraid of the talk waiting when he stands up.

The columnist took umbrage at a classroom letter that called his review 'snack-size thinking,' and he spent the next editorial answering it. A classroom letter calls the review snack-size thinking, and the next editorial answers it. What did the phrase do to him?

'Snack-size thinking' earns a whole editorial in reply. He took the classroom phrase as a personal slight.

Each time the scanner beeped a chart out of order, on charts 4, 9, and 15, vexation tightened the nurse's mouth. By the third bad beep, what has gathered in her?

Irritated displeasure pinches tighter each time the scanner rejects another chart.

Partiality was obvious when the foods judge praised his nephew's chili first and spent four minutes on it, then twenty seconds on the other six pots. What tilt in the judge do those clocks show?

The nephew's chili gets four minutes. The other six pots share twenty seconds, and the favor shows.

The junior reporter would not move her desk upstairs. Allegiance to the night crew held, even after the editor offered a window and a newer screen. What bond with the night crew decides it?

The window and the newer screen stay upstairs. She keeps her desk with the night crew she already belongs to.

With conviction, the clinic volunteer told a hesitant parent that the two-o'clock class on asthma inhalers was worth missing work for. What keeps her advice so steady when she tells the parent to miss work?

She is sure the two-o'clock inhaler class is worth the missed work, and the advice comes out steady.

Twenty stools were already sanded in the workshop. The lead reached for the cheaper varnish, then stopped, a qualm in the reach, because he had not read the whole label. What does qualm say he is feeling with his hand still in the air?

His hand stops short of the cheaper can. Twenty stools are already sanded, and he feels uneasy about a varnish whose label is still unread.