Select the correct answer from the list. Use digital reference materials to help you. (1 point)

One by one, the students in the classroom next to the science lab began to look up and blank 1 deeply at first and then quickly cover their noses.

Something was going terribly wrong in the science lab, and the smell was beginning to blank 2 the other classrooms on the hall

Blank one
respite

respire

inspire

Blank 2

pierce

permeate

percolate

1 answer

For Blank 1, the correct word is "respire." The sentence would read: "One by one, the students in the classroom next to the science lab began to look up and respire deeply at first and then quickly cover their noses."

For Blank 2, the correct word is "permeate." The sentence would read: "...and the smell was beginning to permeate the other classrooms on the hall."

So, the completed sentences are:

  1. respire
  2. permeate