Chapter 13 Flashcards
I lift my fist to knock on Uncl Doug’s door when Coop grabs my wrist. Whoa, ___________________, he says, looking at me sideways.
hold the phone
What? He says, _______ total innocence. Someone tells you they’ve got a weird uncle, what are you supposed to think?
feighning
He’ just ________, is all. He’s not a perv.
reclusive
I raise my fist again and ________ the door.
rap on
He happens to be a really ______ guy. Just sometimes he comes across as a little..__________
chill; perma-fried
permafired means
to appear as if on drugs, even though one is sober.
All six foot, two hundred and fifty pounds of him, wearing an XXL tomato-sauce-stained Buffalo Sabres hockey ______ and smoking a carrot-size _____.
jersey; joint
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.
twinkle
Only traveling I’m doing today is on my magic broomstick. He smiles and ___________ his mega-joint. These your buds?
takes a deep drag on
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.
plume of smoke; toke, tromps
plume of smoke
Coop and Matt ____ their eyebrows, looking a little worried as we enter the house.
arch
You think I am made of money; he ______ like this is the best joke ever.
cackles
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.
planted; mounded; ratty
To what do I owe this ______ sourjourn?
impromptu
soujour means
to stay temporarily
You come to pay me back for the amplifier you _______?
totalled
totalled means
damage (something, typically a vehicle) beyond repair; wreck.
He raises his eyrows and take a ____ of his soda
glug
glug means
a hollow gurgling sound or series of sounds as of liquid being poured from a bottle.
Is that so? Uncle Doug gently places his oint down in the ashtray, then ________ and grabs me ________.
lunges out; in a headlock
in a headlock
He cackles loudly as he gives me a hair-tearing ______.
noogie
I should have know this was coming. I just didn’t expect his _______________________ with my friends around.
standard reception
Finally he lets me go and I ______ backward, trying to catch my breath.
stumble
Uncle double laughs _______.
Maniacally
A sniff of this? doug waves the ____________________ in the air.
smouldering joint
He snatches up his joint and takes ___________________.
a deep hit
Good man, Uncle Doug says. Say no to drugs. I approve. He takes another _____.
puff
Even if I don’t _____ myself ______ the same lofty standards.
hold myself up to
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.
cremated
toke means
the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe, typically one containing marijuana.
I got so much THC i my bones, everyone should get a pretty ____________.
heady buzz
Uncle Doug winks at us, then busts up laughing as he __________________________ his soda.
takes a slurp on
He ____ the ash off his cigarette, and it _________ the mountain of butts piled in the ashtray.
flicks; tumbles down
reaming means
widen a bore or hole in (a gun or other metal object) with a special tool.
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?
pull
