Reek, Wreak, and Wreck: Answers to Practice Exercises
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Answers to Practice Exercises: Reek, Wreak, and Wreck
(a) "Fifteen minutes from now, I will wreak a terrible vengeance on this city. No one will be spared. No one."
(Mr. Burns in "Last Exit to Springfield." The Simpsons, 1993)
(b) "He remembered the reek of meat. A humid, bloody, gagging smell, mysteriously sweet, that had soaked the Jersey City apartment from a Halal butcher one floor down, suffused the mattresses and sheets, imbued the splintered floor and the foam-rubber couch, so there was no relief from it."
(Jennifer Egan, Look at Me, 2001)
(c) "The small den was a wreck--sofa cushions thrown on the floor, clothing scattered about.
Across the wall to the right someone had scrawled, with some type of reddish liquid, the words 'Jim Smith next will die.'"
(John Grisham, The Innocent Man, 2006)
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