chapter 22 Flashcards
(65 cards)
Her brother is __________________ their deadbeat dad using his Navy SEal skills. He’s got an entire WarGames ________ in his bedroom.
tracking down; setup
The three of us are _______________ my family room for our casting session. We’ve ________________ all of my pets into the other rooms.
setting up; corralled
corral means
gather together and confine (a group of people or things).
“the organizers were corralling the crowd into marching formation”
synonyms:
get, capture, collect, pick up, round up
“she corralled some new volunteers”
We’ve corralled all of my pets into the other rooms, and now we’re busy ___________________ snacks and drinks picking up __________________ of dogs, cat, and ferret hair, and moving furniture around to create an _____________.
putting out; stray tufts; audition space
That’s fucked up, dawg, Coop says, unwrapping Twinkies and Ding Dongs and _____________________________ a plate.
laying them out neatly on
The Seals are like the _____________ the military.
ninjas of
Matt ______ cans of soda on the coffee table. What’s he gonna do when he finds him?
lines up
He’s a Navy Seal, Matt, Coop says, they are __________________.
trained in torture
They like to ______guys’ meats ______ car batteries and then _____ them ____ water.
hook; up to; douse; with
Oh God, I say, my own junk _______________ inside me.
turtling up
They’ll also tie a dude’s hands to the arms of a chair and drive bamboo ________ under his fingernails.
splints
After that, they’ll put a scorpion-filled _________ _____ his head so that the bus can ______ the shit out of his eyeballs.
potato sack over; sting
Jesus Christ, would you shut the hell up? My stomach ______ and ________.
bucks and lurches
Would you please shut the hell up? My stomach bucks and lurches.
What? Coop shrugs. I’m just trying to let you know wht you are ___________.
up against
He showed me his gun, for shit’s sake.
Really? Coop waggles his eyebrows. Flashed you the _________________________, did he?
old pants pistol
A real gun, douche bag. He took the _____ out, handed it to me, and made me aim it at the ______________ of his father that he has _______________ on a dartboard.
clip; eighty-by-ten; tacked up
clip means
a box of bullets
tack up means
To post something with or as if with a tack: I tacked up a poster of my favorite band. The teacher tacked the best students’ essays up on the wall.
How did it feel? I can still sense the ______ of the pistol in the palm of my hand. Like he was sending me a message: Stay with Evelyn and we’re ____________________. But break up with her and ____________________.
heft; bosom brothers; all bets are off
It means that if you broke up with Evelyn, then we wouldn’t __________ her super-chillicious video camera.
have use of
It means that if you broke up with Evelyn, then we wouldn’t have use of her ________________ video camera.
super-chillicious
chillicious has the qualities of…
badass#chill#delicious#tasty#quality
And then we have to ________ Unc’s entire grand _____ equipment instead of ________ all the cash ____ on the screen.
blow; on; splashing up on
Think of it as an ____________. You _______ with Evelyn for a couple of months while we make a kick-ass movie.
opportunity presented; play house
