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The lunchroom is crammed with bodies and faces, none of which I can __________ sharp focus

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bring into

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They were like a pack of hungry cheetahs on a ___________ ibex

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downed

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monkery

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monk·er·y
ˈməNGkərē/Submit
nounderogatory
monasticism.
a monastery.
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make 3 sentences with loaded down with

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carrying a lot of heavy things;

having a lot of responsibilities

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Sean says nothing, just pretends to be studying today’s chow choices, which can lead to only one conclusion: he _________________ the verbal stoning

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joined in on

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If she’s your parner, it wouldn’t mean anything. You’re already a ______. People like to see the ______fall; they don’t try to __________ the homeless

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plebe; greats; topple

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Mom was working late again, so dinner was a _________________ affair, which meant Pop-Tarts for moi–and I traded breakfast for three slaps at the snooze button

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fend-for-yourself affair

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Miraculously everyone seems to be otherwise engaged. Could it be that the __________________ have shifted since this mornign

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winds of luck

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the only reason I know this is beacuase my father brought me to this ______ of sotres in the middle of nowhere to pick up some part for one of our sinks last year

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strip

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fend meaning

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looking after and provide for oneself

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I traded breakfast for three slaps ____ the snooze button

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at

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few and far between

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few and far beˈtween not frequent; not happening often: Since her illness, the former Senator’s public appearances have been few and far between. ♢ Apartments for hire are few and far between in this part of town.
See also: and, far, few

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Valerie appears out of nowhere holding a tray ___________________ a sald, a brownie, a cinnamon bun, and lemon meringue pie

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loaded down with

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If she were anyone elese, I’d think she was ________________________, but Matt says her whole family’s like that–her mom, dad, and her little brother, George–so it’s got to be lucky genes, plain and simple

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yurking it all up

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I grab a lukewarm, ________ dnkey burger, a chocolate chip cookie, and an apple juice, and _____ them down ____ my green tray

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foil-wrapped; plunk down

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grate on something

grate on someone

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grate on (someone or something)

  1. To scrape or scratch against something. When you move the table, please make sure that the legs don’t grate on the floor.
  2. To be irritating or annoying. Her snarky comments are really starting to grate on me.
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I turn to see Helen’s _______________ _____ face approaching

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ponytail-pulled moon

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make 3 sentences with summarily

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in a summary manner, without customary formalities

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Valerie says as she cuts her brownie into ________

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quarters

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lemming

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lemming
A member of a crowd with no originality or voice of his own. One who speaks or repeats only what he has been told. A tool. A cretin.
“Ya think he’ll do it?”
“He’s a lemming, he’ll do anything he’s told.”

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Meaning I’ll either have to lean in close to hear her, or ask her to repeat herself, bot hof which will _____ her standing her

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draw more attention to

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It’s a _____ plan, really. Matt’s already got a wife. If all the other girls in the school think he’s diseased, it shouldn’t matter one ____ to him

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steller; pube

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her eyes are __________ and _____, like she’s been crying all morning. Which she probably has

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red-rimmed; puffy

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make 3 sentences with polish off

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polish something off
phrasal verb of polish
finish or consume something quickly.
“they polished off most of the sausages

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someone shouts as a storm of buttery niblets ______________________

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rains down on my head

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everyone in our corner of the lunchroom–except Sean and Matt, who just grimace–crack__ up

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cracks up (grammar)

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Put it in your corn hole, Corn Dog! someone shouts as a stomr of ______________________ rains down on my head, hurled from somewhere ___________________ the wrestling team.

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buttery niblets; in the general direction

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Maybe it’s my imagination but she looks.. what? relieved? which makes me feel like a ________.

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prize jerk.

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He bites into his elephant-foot-trampled grilled cheese, which causes a _____________________ to ___________ the plastic it was once wrapped in. Even that looks good to me

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trickle of oil; pitter-patter on

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plebe

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plebe
One who is considered to be inferior.

Derrived from "plebian," the working class of ancient Rome.
Your unintelligable babbling has lead me to reguard you as a plebe.
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It’s been almost two years since Helen’s hot dog habits were revealed. And that hasn’t ___________

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ease one bit

32
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You think you’ve _________? Guess who’s in my Math class

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got it bad

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I’m tempted to point out that we could have done this during class if she hadn’t ducked out, but I don’t trust Sean not to _____________ about the fact that I passed out soon after

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pipe up

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you can stop now, because we’ve already heard everything you’re going to say from your _________

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man-clone

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topple

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topple
verb UK ​  /ˈtɒp.əl/ US ​  /ˈtɑː.pəl/
topple verb (FALL)
​
[ I or T ] to (cause to) lose balance and fall down:

The statue of the dictator was toppled (over) by the crowds.
The tree toppled and fell.

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I unwarp my soggy burger, ______ the top bun and start ________________________________________________, drowning the gray patty.

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peel off; squeezing ketchup pouches

37
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An A in exchange for a semestre’s worth of ridicule, torment, finger-pointing, and being called Corn Dog Cooper? I say through a mouthful of burger. No thanks. Besides, who knows how long the _______________ could last

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repercussions

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make 3 sentences with topple

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topple
verb UK ​  /ˈtɒp.əl/ US ​  /ˈtɑː.pəl/
topple verb (FALL)
​
[ I or T ] to (cause to) lose balance and fall down:

The statue of the dictator was toppled (over) by the crowds.
The tree toppled and fell.

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Guess who’s in my Math class? Oh let me _______________. Tianna

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take a stab

40
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Only because it’s nice to see you _____ for a change. But if she was my partner I’d deal with it

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squirm

41
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overboard

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overboard
[oh-ver-bawrd, -bohrd]
ExamplesWord Origin
See more synonyms for overboard on Thesaurus.com
adverb
over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water:
to fall overboard.
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Idioms
go overboard, to go to extremes, especially in regard to approval or disapproval of a person or thing:
I think the critics went overboard in panning that new show.
Origin of overboard
before 1000; Middle English over bord, Old English ofer bord. See over, board
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
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En route to California, he reportedly tossed his works of Lenin overboard, to avoid trouble from the U.S. authorities.
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Candidates like Bush, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio “want to toss Republicans overboard.”
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But then he very skillfully and decisively throws Carrie overboard to protect the agency.
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“It went so overboard, it really seemed like there was another agenda,” he said.
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A suspicious Cal soon discovers his father was complicit in taking Richard out to sea and throwing him overboard.
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Historical Examples
The boy was next attacked-with threats of throwing him overboard.
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I’ll throw him overboard before such a disgrace befall us or him.
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He would come, and we would heave him overboard, or get killed trying.
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

She had a deckload of it, and she’d heave it overboard every time the wind changed.
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Joseph C. Lincoln

If ‘twas one of the hands I guess likely she’d have hove him overboard.
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British Dictionary definitions for overboard
overboard
adverb
from on board a vessel into the water
go overboard informal
to be extremely enthusiastic
to go to extremes
throw overboard to reject or abandon
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for overboard
adv.
“over the side of a ship,” Old English ofor bord, from over + bord “side of a ship” (see board (n.2)). Figurative sense of “excessively, beyond one’s means” (especially in phrase go overboard) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with overboard
overboard
see go overboard.

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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42
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give her the _________, Why shoud you have to suffer to

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old boot to the belly

43
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make 3 sentences with grate on something

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to scrape or scratch against something

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summarily

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sum·mar·i·ly
səˈmerəlē/Submit
adverb
in a summary manner; without the customary formalities.
"she was summarily dismissed"
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make 3 sentences with grate one someone

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irritate or annoying

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I am hoping she’ll just ____________ , but she stops right at the head of our table; her books hugged to her ______ sweatshirt-clad body

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walk on by; bulky

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I could go over there and try to find out who ________ at me, but really, what am I going to do if I figure out who it is? Offer up my ass to be _________ kicked?

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chucked the corn; summarily

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Dean the Machine Scragliano and Frank Hurkle turn and roar at each other as they _____________________.

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slamp their chest together.

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make 3 sentences with few and far between

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not frequent

50
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Forget about tagging any bases; I won’t even be _______________

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warming the bench

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But he can also be a throw-himself-on-the-grenade-for-you friend, which ______________________

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are few and far between

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stay out of it. I say. This doesn’t ______ you

_______, because you will make me do all the work

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affect; does too

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polish off

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polish something off
phrasal verb of polish
finish or consume something quickly.
“they polished off most of the sausages”

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got it bad

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you got it bad
When it has been 36 years and you think of her every day. When you cry as you type this. When you see her in your mind’s eye, and she’s so young and beautiful in her jeans, with the pink belt. When you realise you can’t live without her, but it’s way too late for that
I was the one who wanted to split. And she did everything she could to drive me crazy. Till she could finally have the satisfaction of telling me: you got it bad

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A club or a __________ or something. two birds with one stone, you know?

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putter

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Golf Town? she drowns.

Yeah, I say. It’s a golf shop. ______ Douglas.

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out on

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loaded down with

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if you are loaded down with a lot of heavy things, you are carrying them
She was loaded down with luggage.

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niblet

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nib·let
ˈniblit/Submit
nountrademark
a small piece of food, in particular a kernel of corn.

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repercussion

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re·per·cus·sion
ˌrēpərˈkəSHən,ˌrepərˈkəSHən/Submit
noun
plural noun: repercussions
1.
an unintended consequence occurring some time after an event or action, especially an unwelcome one.
“the move would have grave repercussions for the entire region”
synonyms: consequence(s), result(s), effect(s), outcome; More

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touchdown celebration

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ouchdown celebrations are sometimes performed after the scoring of a touchdown in American football. Individual celebrations have become increasingly complex over time, from simple “spiking” of the football in decades past to the elaborately choreographed displays of the current era.

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What are you going to do? Matt asks, _____________ a chicken strip

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sinking his teeth into

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plunk down

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intransitive verb. : to drop abruptly : settle into position. transitive verb.

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That’s totally awesome, Sean says as we wait ________________.

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in the cafeteria line

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I ____ the brilliant lady with my own piece of brownie. Maybe Matt being so _______ isn’t such a bad thing after all

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toast; whipped

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