Miss Slade's attempts to save the situation: First she looked at Riccio 1________, noting his pale look and ill-fitting clothes. Later when the boy returned to class, she showed her 2________ for Martin's brutality although she did not say anything. Then, she made attempts to 3________ the students' attention from the incident by asking them to stop talking, but to no 4________. Then, at the suggestion of a student, she took the roll call to get the attention of the class and she finally got the students to listen. All along she was very friendly and talked 5________, hoping to amuse them and thus regain their trust. disgust/avail/divert/humorously/sympathetically