You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

Question 1

Amniotic (adj)

Answer 1

Amniotic fluid is a clear, slightly yellowish liquid that surrounds the unborn baby (fetus) during pregnancy. It is contained in the amniotic sac. (Sound when eating orange)

Question 2

Trawl (v)

Answer 2

To fish with a trawl net or seine. “I trawled my body along behind me”

Question 3

Whorl (n/v)

Answer 3

a pattern of spirals or concentric circles.

To spiral or move in a twisted or convoluted manner.

Question 4

Bough (n)

Answer 4

Main branch of a tree

Question 5

Peristaltic (adj)

Answer 5

Relating to peristalsis. Contraction and relaxation of muscle tissue which can allow movement of a substance in a given direction (throat, food down mucus up for example)

Question 6

Pert (adj)

Answer 6

(of a girl or young woman) attractively lively or cheeky.
“a pert Belgian actress”
2.
(of a bodily feature or garment) attractive because neat and jaunty.
“she had a pert nose and deep blue eyes”

Question 7

Variegated (adj)

Answer 7

Exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks

Botany: having or consisting of leaves that are edged or patterned in a second color, especially white as well as green

Question 8

Egress (v)

Answer 8

Go out of or leave (a place)

Question 9

Proffer (v)

Answer 9

Hold out (something) to someone for acceptance; offer

Question 10

Brimming (v)

Answer 10

Be full to the point of overflowing “when you’re brimming over” pg 281

Question 11

Frond (n)

Answer 11

The leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant

Question 12

Baleen (n)

Answer 12

Whalebone

Question 13

Ovoid (adj)

Answer 13

Egg-shaped

Noun: an ovoid body or surface