Chapter 13

Question 1

I lift my fist to knock on Uncl Doug’s door when Coop grabs my wrist. Whoa, ___________________, he says, looking at me sideways.

Answer 1

hold the phone

Question 2

What? He says, _______ total innocence. Someone tells you they’ve got a weird uncle, what are you supposed to think?

Answer 2

feighning

Question 3

He’ just ________, is all. He’s not a perv.

Answer 3

reclusive

Question 4

I raise my fist again and ________ the door.

Answer 4

rap on

Question 5

He happens to be a really ______ guy. Just sometimes he comes across as a little..__________

Answer 5

chill; perma-fried

Question 6

permafired means

Answer 6

to appear as if on drugs, even though one is sober.

Question 7

All six foot, two hundred and fifty pounds of him, wearing an XXL tomato-sauce-stained Buffalo Sabres hockey ______ and smoking a carrot-size _____.

Answer 7

jersey; joint

Question 8

He’s got a big grin on his face and a happy _______ i his eyes, like us coming to visit him is a welcome surprise.

Answer 8

twinkle

Question 9

Only traveling I’m doing today is on my magic broomstick. He smiles and ___________ his mega-joint. These your buds?

Answer 9

takes a deep drag on

Question 10

A pleasure and a privilege, Uncle Doug says, blowing out a ________________________ Come in. It’s cold as a witch’s tit out there. He takes another _______, and ______ down the hall.

Answer 10

plume of smoke; toke, tromps

Question 11

Answer 11

plume of smoke

Question 12

Coop and Matt ____ their eyebrows, looking a little worried as we enter the house.

Answer 12

arch

Question 13

You think I am made of money; he ______ like this is the best joke ever.

Answer 13

cackles

Question 14

We make our way down the hallway and step into the messy kitchen. Uncle Doug is already ___________ at the table, a cigarette-butt-and roach-___________ ashtray on one side of him, a Diet Coke on the other, and a _____ old barely breathing laptop–with a game of Texas Hold’em up on the screen–directly in front of him.

Answer 14

planted; mounded; ratty

Question 15

To what do I owe this ______ sourjourn?

Answer 15

impromptu

Question 16

soujour means

Answer 16

to stay temporarily

Question 17

You come to pay me back for the amplifier you _______?

Answer 17

totalled

Question 18

totalled means

Answer 18

damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck.

Question 19

He raises his eyrows and take a ____ of his soda

Answer 19

glug

Question 20

glug means

Answer 20

a hollow gurgling sound or series of sounds as of liquid being poured from a bottle.

Question 21

Is that so? Uncle Doug gently places his oint down in the ashtray, then ________ and grabs me ________.

Answer 21

lunges out; in a headlock

Question 22

Answer 22

in a headlock

Question 23

He cackles loudly as he gives me a hair-tearing ______.

Answer 23

noogie

Question 24

I should have know this was coming. I just didn’t expect his _______________________ with my friends around.

Answer 24

standard reception

Question 25

Finally he lets me go and I ______ backward, trying to catch my breath.

Answer 25

stumble

Question 26

Uncle double laughs _______.

Answer 26

Maniacally

Question 27

A sniff of this? doug waves the ____________________ in the air.

Answer 27

smouldering joint

Question 28

He snatches up his joint and takes ___________________.

Answer 28

a deep hit

Question 29

Good man, Uncle Doug says. Say no to drugs. I approve. He takes another _____.

Answer 29

puff

Question 30

Even if I don’t _____ myself ______ the same lofty standards.

Answer 30

hold myself up to

Question 31

When I meet my maker, I am to be _______ and then the ashes are to be rolled up, passed around, and smoked by the whole family.

Answer 31

cremated

Question 32

toke means

Answer 32

the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe, typically one containing marijuana.

Question 33

I got so much THC i my bones, everyone should get a pretty ____________.

Answer 33

heady buzz

Question 34

Uncle Doug winks at us, then busts up laughing as he __________________________ his soda.

Answer 34

takes a slurp on

Question 35

He ____ the ash off his cigarette, and it _________ the mountain of butts piled in the ashtray.

Answer 35

flicks; tumbles down

Question 36

reaming means

Answer 36

widen a bore or hole in (a gun or other metal object) with a special tool.

Question 37

Unclea Doug leans back in his chair and takes a long _______ on his ciagrette. He blows the smoke out and smirks. Come one, already. Let’s have it. HOw much do you need and what do you need it for?

Answer 37

pull