Shoe Dog

Question 1

Guffaw

Answer 1

burst of laughter

Question 2

Loggerheads

Answer 2

strong disagreement:

The principal and the teachers were at loggerheads over some of the new school rules.

Question 3

Lark

Answer 3

an activity done for a joke that is not intended to cause serious harm or damage:
The kids hid their teacher’s bike for a lark.

Question 4

Jackassing

Answer 4

a person who behaves in a silly way

Question 5

to be on fumes

Answer 5

to continue doing something even when you have no energy left.

Question 6

Poach

Answer 6

to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you

to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else:
Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they’re his own.

Question 7

flummoxed

Answer 7

so confused that you do not know what to do:
He looked completely flummoxed.
Doctors were flummoxed by the boy’s symptoms.

Question 8

Beguiled

Answer 8

to persuade, attract, or interest someone, sometimes in order to deceive him or her:
He was completely beguiled by her beauty.
The salesman beguiled him into buying a car he didn’t want.

Question 9

Unhinged

Answer 9

mentally ill:

I sometimes think that your mother is a little unhinged.

Question 10

commensurately

Answer 10

in a correct and suitable amount compared to something else:
a salary that is commensurate with skills and experience

suitable in amount or quality compared to something else; matching in degree:
The agency’s workload has increased without any commensurate increase in staff.