Chapter 50

Question 1

The building looks sort of like a _______ elongated White HOuse.

Answer 1

squat

Question 2

squat

Answer 2

short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.
“he was muscular and squat”
synonyms:
stocky, thickset, dumpy, stubby, stumpy, short, small; informal,vertically challenged
“he was musc

Question 3

Uncle Doug drives around back to the service entrance, parks between two trucks, and lets the ___________

Answer 3

engine idel

Question 4

I can’t stay in this smoke-and-fart-filled ______________ any longer, so I push past Coop, yan open the side door, and am the first to leap out

Answer 4

sardine can

Question 5

My head’s still swimming a bit, but I’m no longer ______________

Answer 5

at code orange

Question 6

Coop, matt, and Nick ________ the van and huddle around me

Answer 6

hop down from

Question 7

You want to _______ the world so that everyone can feel your pain

Answer 7

infect

Question 8

It looks great, I say, wondering where she __________

Answer 8

lifted it from

Question 9

Coop grabs the video camera and hands it to Valerie We’ve only got __________________, so let’s get it righ

Answer 9

one shot at this

Question 10

As long as there are no big-booed girls in the room to distract me’–Val sirks as she ______ the camera ____ her shoulder–I should be fine

Answer 10

hoist; onto

Question 11

She removed three dark-red capsules and hands one to each of us monkeys. They’re filled with stage blood. You just ______________________ and the blood will spill from your mouth

Answer 11

bite down on them

Question 12

I nearly _______ in my monkey suit.

Answer 12

drop a load

Question 13

_________________________, Coop hushes. It’s chill. I’ll hae Evelyn hang at the front of the room and once the rupus begins, Leyna and Hunter will be the first ones out

Answer 13

Don’t make a scene

Question 14

Don’t make a scene. It’s chill. Coop _______

Answer 14

hushes

Question 15

hush

Answer 15

make (someone) be quiet or stop talking.
“he placed a finger before pursed lips to hush her”
synonyms:
silence, quiet, quiet down, shush; More

Question 16

Once the ______ begins, Leyna and Hunter will be the first ones out

Answer 16

rampus

Question 17

rumpus

Answer 17

rum·pus
ˈrəmpəs/
nouninformal
noun: rumpus; plural noun: rumpuses
a noisy disturbance; a commotion.
"he caused a rumpus with his flair for troublemaking"

Question 18

raggedy means

Answer 18

slang words for torned-up messed up

Question 19

Matt, Nick and me take off like three raggedy-ass Bigfeet, crouching and ______________ the peeling brown service-entrance door

Answer 19

skulking toward

Question 20

I feel like a SEAL again. Sneaking up on the ___________. I can’t wait to see the expressions on people’s faces

Answer 20

unwitting

Question 21

My heart’s flutterin like a spooked _____________ in a too-small cage

Answer 21

parakeet

Question 22

As Nick and Matt ________ I press on my diaphragm, pushing up a little burp to help ease the seasickness in my belly

Answer 22

jostle inside

Question 23

WE seem to be in some sort of ________________ or foyer or something.

Answer 23

vestibule

Question 24

There’s a _______ brussels-sprout smell back here, and it’s hard to get air deep into my lungs

Answer 24

musty

Question 25

musty

Answer 25

having a moldy, damp, stale smell

a dark musty library filled with old books

Question 26

The three of us ________ a doorway, ut of sight, and wait as trolleys of food are ____________ from the kitchen and down another hall

Answer 26

duck into; wheeled

Question 27

We’re just about to follow the latest food cart down the hall when I see another waiter ____________________ a tray of appetizers push thru the double kitchen doors

Answer 27

balancing

Question 28

His German accent is right out of Call of Duty, his _________________________ hair and black nail poish straight from Dragon All Z

Answer 28

spiked bleached-blond

Question 29

buff means

Answer 29

being in good physical shape with toned muscle

Question 30

A _____ dude in a formfitting tux bursts thru the doors and grabs the waiter’s arm

Answer 30

buff

Question 31

The spikyhaired guy ________________ the waiter’s hand, sending little puff pastry squares fling into the air and the silver platter clanking to the floor

Answer 31

slaps the tray out of the waiter’s hand

Question 32

rope into

Answer 32

o persuade, entice, or enlist someone to do or participate in something. I really didn’t want to sing in the talent show, but Janet roped me into it. I managed to rope few friends into helping us move out on Saturday.

Question 33

With that, Ulf shoves the waiter back into the kitchen through the ______ doors and follows right ___________

Answer 33

saloon, on his heels

Question 34

I quickly ____________ the kichen and turn down the hall

Answer 34

skulk past

Question 35

Matt and Nick ______ As we creep toward Rico’s birthday party

Answer 35

shadow me

Question 36

We are umm I try to clear the thick ________ in my throat

Answer 36

clump

Question 37

His suit is so tight on him that it’s take just one hard _____ for him to _______ the fabric like the Incredible Hulk

Answer 37

flex; rip thru

Question 38

But just like that Ulf’s shoulders relax. WEll, thank you, my _______, he says

Answer 38

lucky charms