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Question 1

baloney

Answer 1

There was none of the fanfare of a picnic basket or plates or anything like that, only baloney and brown bread and margarine sandwiches wrapped up in butcher paper.

Bologna sausage, also called baloney (/bəˈloʊni/),[1] is a sausage derived from Mortadella, a similar-looking, finely ground pork sausage containing cubes of pork fat, originally from the Italian city of Bologna (IPA: [boˈloɲɲa] (About this soundlisten)). Other common names include parizer (Parisian sausage) in the countries deriving from ex Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania, polony in Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Western Australia, devon in most states of Australia, and fritz in South Australia.

informal something that is silly or not true SYN nonsense
Don’t give me that baloney.

Question 2

margarine

Answer 2

a yellow substance similar to butter but made from vegetable or animal fats, which you eat with bread or use for cooking

Question 3

butcher

Answer 3

Butchers’ paper is a kraft paper. Originally sold to butchers for the purpose of wrapping meat and fish,

Question 4

take somebody back

Answer 4

To this day, baloney and brown bread and margarine will instantly take me back.
take somebody back to make you remember a time in the past
Having the grandchildren around takes me back to the days when my own children were small.

Question 5

frugality

Answer 5

Her frugality was the stuff of legend.

1 careful to buy only what is necessary OPP extravagant
As children we were taught to be frugal and hard-working.
He led a remarkably frugal existence.

Question 6

busted

Answer 6

We had threadbare furniture, busted old sofa with holes worn through the fabric.
1 broken
a busted arm
2 [not before noun] caught doing something wrong and likely to be punished
You guys are so busted!

Question 7

pliers

Answer 7

We changed the channels using a pair of pliers because the button didn’t work.
a small tool made of two crossed pieces of metal, used to hold small things or to bend and cut wire

Question 8

obliterate

Answer 8

We didn’t eat chickens. We obliterates them.

1 to destroy something completely so that nothing remains
Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
► see thesaurus at destroy
2 to remove a thought, feeling, or memory from someone’s mind
Nothing could obliterate the memory of those tragic events.
3 to cover something completely so that it cannot be seen
Then the fog came down, obliterating everything.

Question 9

voracious

Answer 9

I am a voracious kid.
1 eating or wanting large quantities of food
Pigs are voracious feeders.
Kids can have voracious appetites.
2 having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something
a voracious reader
Her appetite for information was voracious.

Question 10

crave

Answer 10

I was hyperactive too. I craved constant stimulation an activity.
to have an extremely strong desire for something
an insecure child who craves attention
+++carve