chapter 9

Question 1

I’m ________ my drums, staring at the posters on the wall

Answer 1

hunched over

Question 2

All of thme mocking me. My T-shirt is ___________ with sweat, my shoulders are ____________, and I have a blazing headache

Answer 2

soaked through; in knots

Question 3

I sit up. Set myself Reach over to my laptop and press the ____________ with the tip of my drumstick to start a new recording.

Answer 3

trackpad;

Question 4

beat out

Answer 4

to make a pattern of sounds by hitting an instrument or other object
drummers beating out a rhythm
Synonyms and related wordsb

Question 5

I sit up. _______ myself. Reach over to my laptop and press the trackpad with the tip of my drumsick to start a new reording.

Answer 5

set

Question 6

Coop, buddy! Dad calls out over the drums as he ____________________ the stairs

Answer 6

clomps down

Question 7

I sit up. SEt myself. Reach over to my laptop and press the ________________________ with the tip of my _____________

Answer 7

trackpad; drumstick

Question 8

He _____ at the sight of me. Jesus Christ, Coop. Are you okay? you’re sweating like a nun in a ________________

Answer 8

recoils; cucumber patch

Question 9

scuttle

Answer 9

a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce)
2 : a metal pail that usually has a bail and a sloped lip and is used especially for carrying coal

Question 10

Right And a dog’s breath smells like fresh baked bread. Come on. What’s the _________________

Answer 10

poop and scuttle

Question 11

Dad raises his eyebrows as he ___________ a packet of nicotine gum from his shirt pocket

Answer 11

pulls

Question 12

Look no offense, Coop. Dad says, but you’re not the ____________________________________ type

Answer 12

nose to the grindstone type

Question 13

nose to the grindstone

Answer 13

nose to the grindstone (plural noses to the grindstone) (idiomatic, after keep, put, have, hold (one’s)) used for form idioms meaning “to work hard, or focus heavily on work.” If he’d keep his nose to the grindstone a bit more, he could be a pretty good student.

Question 14

The last time you put this much effort into something was when you were ___________________ us to adop the sorriest looking dog at the kennel so you could pretend to be a homeless kid and beg for a change outside the PriceMark. So what’s the _____ here

Answer 14

lobbying; angle

Question 15

I don’t know why my chest feels so constricted. Like I’m wearing a ____________________ or something

Answer 15

straightjacket

Question 16

There’s this other girl. Who I’ve been __________________ for a school project.

Answer 16

saddled up with

Question 17

Everone at school hates her. So now I’m _______________ all the benefits of that

Answer 17

reaping all the benefits

Question 18

Which means my chances of hooking up with any of the girls in the school are less than _________

Answer 18

zilch

Question 19

Yeah I can see that. Rock star _____________ pretty much anything

Answer 19

trumps

Question 20

If you’d told me a few days ago I could have had your grandmother FedEx me my old band tapes. You could have ___________ one of those as your own until you guys got your act together

Answer 20

floated

Question 21

squanch

Answer 21

Squanch
sex
Dirty hairy nasty blown out vagina
That Bitch's Squanch is Gnarles Barkley
##trix##prosty2t##leftover##handmedown##freebie

Question 22

Anyways, we tried to keep the band _________ after high school, but you know how things go. Dad _____ his lips, the wheels turning behind his eyes.

Answer 22

chugging; taps

Question 23

Yeah that would have been cool, I say. I guess I’m just goingt o have to start ________________ the priesthood

Answer 23

looking into

Question 24

Don’t go _______________ just yet. Three months, huh/ Three months. Yeah. We could get you _____________ decent by then.

Answer 24

hanging up the guns; sounding

Question 25

WE could get you sounding decent by then. But the demo. That’s the _______ And if you can’t use my high school band tapes, then what?

Answer 25

rub