Vocabulary in Frankenstein, Chapters 18-19

Choose the ONE word that BEST fits in ALL blanks in the sample sentences. Write that word in the numbered space.

Words to Choose From

Nouns

 

blight
candor
exordium
impediment

 

Verbs

 

prevail
chasten
dispose
allege

 

Others

 

listless
ineffectual
tremulous
congenial

The missing word belongs to what word class (nouns, verbs, others)?

Missing Word:

In the padlocked room some secret horror had occurred which had cast a __ on the family.
The elm trees are dying out, one by one falling prey to some mysterious __.