Chapter 4

Question 1

You shouldn’t look so happy, I say. This is going to ahave a _____________ effect, just so you know.

Answer 1

trickle-down

Question 2

we’ve already done a million ____ Rock BAnd, I say. HOw much harder could it be?

Answer 2

gigs on

Question 3

Okay so SEan and I will take your share of the __________. But you can still _________, can’t you

Answer 3

groupies; ogle

Question 4

Sean just shrugs. WE walk in silence for a bit, _____________ kids hurrying in the opposite direction.

Answer 4

dodging

Question 5

Dean ______ one of his wrestling buddies as they job off down the hall to whops and hollers

Answer 5

high-tens

Question 6

Well, we can’t say we didn’t try. SEan’s got a ___________ his step and a big grin on his face

Answer 6

a bounce to his step

Question 7

gig

Answer 7

Gig is slang for a live musical performance. Originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians, the term, short for the word “engagement”, now refers to any aspect of performing such as assisting with performance and attending musical performance. More broadly, the term “gigging” means having paid work, being employed.

Question 8

I know we came up with the name. But I’m also aware that we _________.

Answer 8

suck

Question 9

here’s my miracle. Win the battle of the bands and the Hog Dog Helen taint will be __________________ by my rock and roll awesomeness

Answer 9

obliterated

Question 10

Some lame artist has drawn a guitar, a bass keyboards, and a drum kit __________________________.

Answer 10

in badly skewed perspective

Question 11

make 3 sentences with oblierated

Answer 11

ob·lit·er·ate
əˈblidəˌrāt/
verb
past tense: obliterated; past participle: obliterated
destroy utterly; wipe out.
“the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind”
synonyms:
destroy, wipe out, annihilate, demolish, eliminate, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map; More
informalzap, nuke
“the city was almost obliterated in the war”
antonyms:
create
cause to become invisible or indistinct; blot out.
“clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun”

Question 12

Anyway, Matt says. Even if we could __________ something ________by December, it says we need a demo tape by this Friday. So right there we’re done

Answer 12

cobble together

Question 13

As I push myself away from the corkboard, a purple shet of paper _____________ right in front of my face

Answer 13

flutters

Question 14

cover

Answer 14

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

Question 15

make 3 sentences with cobble

Answer 15

: to make or put together roughly or hastily —often used with together or up cobble together an agreementcobble up a temporary solution

Question 16

Dean the Machine shouts as he shoulder checks me into the wall. My cheek ________ hard _____ a bulletin board, a red ______________________ barely missing my eye.

Answer 16

slams into; thumbtack

Question 17

obliterated

Answer 17

ob·lit·er·ate
əˈblidəˌrāt/
verb
past tense: obliterated; past participle: obliterated
destroy utterly; wipe out.
“the memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind”
synonyms:
destroy, wipe out, annihilate, demolish, eliminate, decimate, liquidate, wipe off the face of the earth, wipe off the map; More
informalzap, nuke
“the city was almost obliterated in the war”
antonyms:
create
cause to become invisible or indistinct; blot out.
“clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun”

Question 18

shoulder checks

Answer 18

The act of intentionally bumping another person’s shoulder with your own shoulder as you walk past them. It is meant as a display of open aggression or simple disrespect depending on how roughly the shoulder check is performed.

Question 19

crush the corn dog! Dean the Machine shouts as he _____________ me _____ the wall.

Answer 19

shoulder checks; into