But even given the surroundings, the children had mixed feelings when, over a dull dinner of boiled

chicken, boiled potatoes and blanched-the word “blanched” here means “____________”-string beans, Mr. Poe

announced that they were to leave his household the next morning.

Mr. Poe opened his mouth to speak, but had to cough a few times before he began. “Yes you do. I’m dropping you off on my way to the bank, so we need to leave as soon as possible. Please get out of bed and get dressed,” he said briskly. The word “briskly” here means “_________, so as to get the Baudelaire children to leave the house.”

“Yes, I heard about the accident,” the woman said, as everyone said how do you do. “I am Justice

Strauss.”

“That’s an unusual first name,” Klaus remarked.

“It is my title,” she explained, “not my first name. I serve as a __________ on the High Court.”

They could see, in the space of pale skin between his

tattered trouser cuff and his black shoe, that Count Olaf had an image of an ______ tattooed on his ankle, matching the _______ on his front door. They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby.