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Chapter 26 Flashcards

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Jack grabs Stacy’s hand and ____________________ a back alley. The alley is ____________ trash cans and ________ and doors to stores and restaurants.

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pulls her down; lined with; dumpsters

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Halfway down the _____, they notice that it _________ a brick wall.

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lane; dead-ends at

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Suddenly, they hear a ________________. They turn around to see a ______ of humanzees ____________ the back alley, blocking their escape.

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growling moan. horde; shuffling into

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The humanzees ___________ them as Jack and STacy try all the __________.

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shuffle toward; doorknobs

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Jack ________________ oe of the doors but it’s not buding. He tries again and again, but the humanzees are rapidly ____________ them.

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slams his shoulder into; closing in on

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All morning long, I’ve been ___________ energy drinks–I think I’ve had six cans by now–as i make Nessa’s changes to the script and try to write some new scenes.

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pounding

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pounding means

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drugs
To do shots of hard liquor
Man, how come you ain’t pounding any tonight?

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And so I’ve been trying to _______________________ our main characters. I’ll know if I’m doing what she wants when i meet with her later today.

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keep the screws turning

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In the meantime, I’m trying to _________________ as much of the script as I can before i have to head over to Uncle Doug’s store and ___________________ his final condition of the loan.

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get through; make good on

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make good on means

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make good on something
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to do what you have said you would do:
My grandfather said he would pay for me to go to college, and he made good on that promise.

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I slam my laptop closed, grab my keys and phone, and ________ the door. I have no idea what he’s going to make me do at his shop–_________, cleaning or something equally unpleasant, I’m sure–but I’ve only got twenty minutes to get there and I know he’s not going to be too pleased if I’m late.

A

bolt for; stocking

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life-size

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A life-sized work of art or model is the same size as the person or thing that it represents:
a life-size statue of an elephant

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This costume is itchy, I say, __________________ a brown spandex mask at the ____________ Persian rug I’m wearing.

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looking down through; life-size

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a cigarette containing the drug cannabis

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spliff

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Trust me, you don’t want to know. He ______ as he raises a ______________ to his _________________ and takes a drag.

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cackles; spliff; chapped lips

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He cackles as he _______ a spliff ___ his chapped lips and takes a drag.

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raises; to

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_______________, it’s one of the reason the last guy quit. Not the ony reason. But one of the reasons.

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Suffice it to say

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cutout

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noun
noun: cut-out; plural noun: cut-outs; noun: cutout; plural noun: cutouts
1.
a shape of a person or thing cut out of cardboard or another material.
a person perceived as characterless or as lacking in individuality.
“this film’s protagonists are cardboard cutouts”
2.
a hole cut in something for decoration or to allow the insertion of something else.

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I don’t blame him. I try to ___________ my Lycra-covered face ____________________ the tiny oval cutout in the rug suit. It’s disgusting.

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stick; further out of;

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Aaa. Uncle Doug releases a big ________ of pot smoke and swats my commet away with the back of his hands.

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plume

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Don’t be such a __________. You’ll be fine once you’re out in the fresh air. He starts walking toward the ________________________ Doug’s Rugs van parked by the garage doors. Besides, what you really need to worry about are the wind currents.

A

pussy; two-tone green

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The whawt? I ___________ my carpet-clad body to look at him. What wind currents?

A

shuffle-turn

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The wind currents. The _________________ the east.

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the gales out of

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blustery

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(of weather or a period of time) characterized by strong winds.
“a gusty, blustery day”
(of a wind) blowing in strong gusts.

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The wind currents. The gales out of the east. He waves his joint in the air as he steps up to the driver’s side door. It gets pretty damn ____________________ up there on Newport Road. And that costume can act like a goddamn kit if it _______________.

A

blustery; catches the breeze

26
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That was the reason the guy before the last guy quit. A ______________________________________.

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heavy gust blew him right into the street

27
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A heavy gust blew him right into the street. Poor bastard was nearly ________________ a semi.

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plowed down by

28
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You think you can’t move so well in that thing, but you’d be surprised how ___________ you get when you have to _____________________.

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agile; play dodge the traffic

29
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Uncle Doug laughs as he _________ from left to right to left in a little ____________________.

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scoots; sidestepping dance

30
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Come on, he says, checking his watch. ________________________. Time is money. He opens the van door and climbs inside.

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let’s get a move on

31
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I start to ___________ to the passenger side as fast as I can, my steps seriously hindered by the contrainsts of this stupid outfit.

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waddle over

32
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I’ve been __________________ a single pant leg of a fat man’s jeans. I pump my _________________ arms as hard as I can to try and propel myself forward, the gold ________ at the top of the carpet costume slapping away off rhythm.

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stuffed down; unitard-sheathed;tassels

33
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the gold tassels at the top of the carpet costume _______________.

A

slapping away off rhythm

34
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I finally get to the van, yank the door open ,and struggle to _________________

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clamber into the seat

35
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By the time I manage to _____________ myself into the front seat I am completely exhausted.

A

inchworm

36
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If I’d known this is what you meant–I _____________–by helpng you out at the store… I wouldn’t have agree to it.

A

wheeze

37
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He turns the key, and the van ___________.

A

coughs to life

38
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One more _____________ his joint, then he throws the car into reverse. All right, here we go.

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puff on

39
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One more puff on his joint, then he _______________.

A

throws the car into reverse

40
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We back out of the warehouse garage, the tires ___________________ the hardened snow.

A

crunching thru

41
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Uncle Doug’s got his left writ __________ the steering wheel, his joint-holding hand stroking his giant _____________________ beard.

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draped over; gray-flecked

42
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Little wisps of smoke _______________ the air as the occasional whisker is __________.

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fizzle into; singed

43
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You’ve got a few winners there, I think. The ____________ kid. Harper? Hummer? Hunter? And the girl with the _______________.

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buzz-cut; blunt-cut hair

44
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He ____________ his forehead with this hand. Laney?

A

chops at

45
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If she is anywhere near as bad as her brother, this film’s _____________.

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dead in the water

46
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Unless you want to ______ so we can rent something.

A

up your investment

47
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Id on’t care what you have to do, ut Handler and Lorna are going to be in the film we show at the festival or Uncle Doug’s going to be plenty ________.

A

PO’d

48
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po’d

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This man is clearly p.o.’d.
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abbreviation
P.o.’d is defined as offensive slang for being angry.
An example of p.o.’d is being angry with a neighbor after they had a noisy party that lasted late into the night.

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p.o.’d

Slang
angry, annoyed, irritated, etc.

Origin of p.o.'d
from p(issed) o(ff) (see the phrase piss off at piss) + -'d
49
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I don’t know if it’s the sound of the tires _______________________ or the motion of the van, but suddenly I realize that I have to pee.

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going thru puddles

50
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Secondly, we’re on a major commercial _____________________ here lined with autobody shops and self-storage facilities. The nearest public toilet is over a mile away.

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commercial throughfare

51
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Look ____________________, he continues, just pee in the suit. It _____________________ won’t make it smell any worse.

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worse comes to worse; sure as shit

52
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A couple of ________________ minutes later, Uncle Doug pulls the van up to the curb at the corner of Newport and Millburn. cars and trucks ____________ at top speed on the six-lane road.

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thigh-clenched minutes; whoosh by

53
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The large plot of snow-laden grass _________ pretty dramatically from the sidewalk where I’m standing to the parking lot of a busy ___________ bellow.

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slopes; slumberyard

54
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I’ve got three adds here. I want you to ______________ them periodically.

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cycle thru

55
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He _____ the front sign to the back so I can read the next one

A

shifts

56
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All right, I’ll leave you to it. Oh, and uh, be sure to stay alert and ___________________.

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keep your eyes peeled

57
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I probably should have mentioned this before but the Doug’s Rug ____________ has a tendency to … he _________ his hand in the air like he’s trying to grasp the words.

A

mascot; swirls

58
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To what? A tendency to what?
To get attacked. _____________. ____________ a little. Nothing serious. Just… _______________ occasionally. By ____________. And… sometimes __________. Or _______________. You know. For fun.

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jumped. Roughed up a little. knocked down. hoodlums. egged. shaving-creamed

59
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Wait a second. I take a ________ him. Are you saying I’m going to be ambushed? I look down at myself. Dressed like this? With no chance for self-defense.

A

wobbly step toward him.

60
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I wouldn’t put you in any actual danger. I need you out here. This kind of thing ___________________ increased store traffic.

A

pays real dividends

61
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Don’t forget to move around. You know, ______________, like you’re a wavy carpet.

A

writhe a bit

62
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Now, now. Did I or did I not _____________ five hundred dollars against my one-thousand-dollar investment?

A

advance you

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