chapter 27 Flashcards
(61 cards)
playing possum
play possum definition. To pretend to be dead, a trick used by opossums to defend themselves from predators: “Everyone thought the old con man had died, but it turned out he was just playing possum.”
A giant red truck is __________________ right in front of me. Two ________________ kids hang out the windows and start ________________ eggs, tomatoes and–zucchini? –at me.
screeching to a halt; ski-masked; rifling
I get a glimpse of the ________ and the blood dripping from the corners of the flying vampanzee’s mouth–a pretty realistic effect, I must say–just as I turn to run. But it’s too late.
fangs
And suddenly it all makes sense.
These are our humanzees and I am meant to be one of their _______ victims.
unwitting
That’s when I catch sight of the video-camera lens futively ______________ the van’s open back door.
poking out from
A giant juicy _____________ tomato catches me in the face, erupting on impact and saturating my spandex mask with gloppy pulp.
beefsteak
I heard about this one dude who was “___________” to try and win a water scooter on some radio show and his bladder totally exploded.
holding his water
It’s like now that my bladder knows a toilet is only a quick van ride away, it can stop ____________________ and start making noise again. Major noise.
playing possum
The mask ______ and Nick smiles a huge psycho smile at me, his large teeth still stained red from the blood dye.
comes off
But as I bend over to retrieve the boards–which looks about as awkward as you can imagine–Uncle Doug’s two-tone green van _______________________.
unwitting
adjective: unwitting
(of a person) not aware of the full facts.
“an unwitting accomplice”
adj. portainting to something that has a thick, chunky consistancy, making a _________ sound when poured
gloppy
The monster _____________, ramming my lower back like i’m a football-tackling dummy.
slams into me
eggos _____ all over my costume. Zucchini __________ me like dozens of tiny green baseball bats.
explodig; battering
A few self-pitying moments later, I realize that the trauma of the attack has totally scared away my __________.
pee urge
We both hit the ground hard and the wind–together with a sizable _________________ is knocked right out of me.
gush of pee
What else am I going to do dressed as a giant rug and __________________ in the middle of a suburban wasteland?
stranded
stampede means
1.
(of horses, cattle, or other animals) rush wildly in a sudden mass panic.
“the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger”
rifle means
hit, throw, or kick (a ball or puck) hard and straight.
“he rifled a hard, rising shot from just inside the blue line”
Not because I want to attract attention to myself–certainly not, after finding out about the ________________–but because I still have three and a half hours before Uncle Doug is coming back to get me and I have to take the mother of all whizzes.
mascot assailants
one who attacks another
assailants
_________________, Nick has to practically drag me back up the hill, as it’s impossible for me to do any climbing in my soggy restrictive rug suit.
to add insult to injury
