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Question 1

rap

Answer 1

Whenever I got into trouble with the nuns at Maryvale they’d rap me on the knuckles with the edge of a metal ruler.

1 HIT [intransitive, transitive] to hit or knock something quickly several times → tap
She rapped the table with her pen.
rap on/at
Angrily she rapped on his window.

Question 2

knuckle

Answer 2

1 your knuckles are the joints in your fingers, including the ones where your fingers join your hands
Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.

Question 3

sociopath

Answer 3

I wasn’t a sociopath.

someone whose behaviour towards other people is considered unacceptable, strange, and possibly dangerous

Question 4

the Eucharist

Answer 4

I snuck behind the altar and I drank the entire bottle of grape juice and I ate the entire bag of the Eucharist to make up for all the other times that I couldn’t.

the holy bread and wine, representing Christ’s body and blood, used during a Christian ceremony, or the ceremony itself

Question 5

shrink (noun)

Answer 5

The third visit to the shrink, and the last straw, came in grade six.
a psychoanalyst or psychiatrist – used humorously

Question 6

bursary

Answer 6

She’d lost the bursary when she’d left her job at ICI.

an amount of money given to someone so that they can study at a university or college SYN grant

Question 7

fire brigade

Answer 7

A neighbor had called the fire brigade.

1 British English the fire service SYN fire department American English
2 American English a group of people who work together to stop fires burning, but are not paid to do this

Question 8

dumbfounded

Answer 8

They were completely dumbfounded.

extremely surprised

Question 9

over the edge

Answer 9

What was ironic to me was that white people had spent years seeing video of black people being beaten to death by other white people, but this one video of a black man kicking a cat, that’s what sent them over the edge.
: into a mental or emotional state that makes someone completely lose control
His friends worried that the news might send/drive/push him over the edge.

Question 10

progressive

Answer 10

Colored people, apparently, were no more progressive than black people on the issue of cat.
1 supporting new or modern ideas and methods, especially in politics and education