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Chapters 14-20

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All last year we ______ Webb   tormented  
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Tormented   Tortured  
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Mike brought the mustard in one of those squeeze ________.   Dispensers  
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Dispensers   Distributors  
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Forfeit   Lose  
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Butted   Rammed  
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Grunted   Mumbled  
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"Other teams get a sniff of you, the'll all faint and we'll win by _____."   forfeit  
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"We ___ helmets like bighorn sheep."   Butted  
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"We ____. We growled."   grunted  
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Devour   Gobble  
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Rifleman   A soldier armed with a rifle  
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Sputtered   Crackled  
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"I do not ____ anything that has a face."   devour  
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"Mike made like a _____."   rifleman  
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Stalked   Hunted  
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Sag   Droop  
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"He ___ over toward the wastebasket, holding the room hand out like a sword."   stalked  
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"It's a total, major ___: cheeks, shoulders, even voice (except eyeballs, they roll upward.)"   sag  
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Blur   Fuzzy  
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"He was right, it was fast, a gray ___ across the kitchen floor..."   fuzzy  
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Mussed   Messed  
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Crayoned/Mustache   drawn with crayon/facial hair above the lip  
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"He reached out and ______ my hair."   mussed  
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"On the glass that covered it, some mysterious unknown person had _______ a mustache right above my toothless grin."   crayoned  
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Stiff-armed   to tackle or fend off with ones arm  
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Shifty   Untrustworthy  
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"The ___________ almost always works early in the game."   stiff arm  
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"They're usually small and fast and ___.   shifty  
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Outjuke   Out-maneuver  
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Second-string   Back up  
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"They expect you to try to out run or _____ them"   out juke  
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"He stumbled backward onto his ______ butt."   second-string  
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Ovation   Cheer. Clapping  
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Spatula   a utensil used for cooking  
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"The kids in the stands jumped up and gave me a standing ____."   ovation  
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"He turned, a _____ in his hand.   spatula  
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Scrumptious   Delicious  
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Bait   Lure  
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"This is _____," my mother said with her mouth full."   scrumptious  
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"The trap was still there, a little glop of peanut butter as a ____."   bait  
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Clobbered   Bashed  
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"What is this?" said Scotter, drawing back and almost getting ___.   clobbered  
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foothunters   individuals that hunt feet  
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"Sometimes he'll tell us about the _______ of Borneo (instead of headhunters, get it?), how they go around lopping off people's feet and shrink them and wear them around their necks."   feet hunters  
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