"Coyote v. Acme" by Ian Frazler
Vocabulary Warm-up Exercises
Exercise A Fill in the blanks, using each word from Word List A only once.

Millie was always tinkering in the garage with her chemistry set. One unfortunate after-
noon, to the [1]
of the garage door that became singed, she mixed
several chemicals by mistake. They exploded, and the loud [2]
could be heard up and down her street. Mr. Smith, who was in his car at the time,
off the road and smashed into the Pickering's garbage cans.
Luckily, a few seconds before the (4)
of the chemicals, Millie had
walked back inside her house to search for an extra glass jar. She rushed back to the
garage with a fire extinguisher. There was so much sinoke that, when the fire depart-
ment arrived, only Millie's [5]
was outlined in the smoke. The acci-
dent resulted in the [6]
of most of Millie's equipment, which lay in
diny pieces all over. The fire chief soon declared that the danger of further explosions
was 17)
He reminded Millie of her [8]
for the
damage done to her house, and she agreed to restrict her rther experiments to a well-
appointed laboratory.