Chapters 7-9

Chapters 7-9

Optimism

• " Once you get past thinking fat you can see that Albert's special quality is optimism, because Albert actually believes he will be thin someday, and says so."

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What does optimism mean?

• a tendency to expect good outcomes

• a famous person

resourceful

• 'What do you think of that?' Mother asked my father that night. 'She buttered his head!' 'I think it was resourceful,' my father said. 'Messy, but resourceful.'

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What does resourceful mean?

• make a complaint

• able to meet any situation

slouching

• "They were all there, slouching around ready for action, draped over the tables, scraping gum from underneath the benches, chewing it."

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What does slouching mean?

• speaking loudly

• standing in a drooping posture

circumstances

• "Three kids quit the Fire Safety Team right away before anything could happen to them, but their mothers said they ought to get the T-shirts anyway in view of the circumstances."

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What does circumstance mean?

• facts and conditions that affect a situation

• proof of something

hospitality

• "So then Miss Kemp spent ten minutes talking about manners and hospitality, but I guess she figured Howard might be a pain in the neck too because she didn't make Louella untie him."

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What does hospitality mean?

• to be unwilling to do something

• friendly welcome and treatment of guests

convenient

• "Mr. Crabtree didn't mention any other diseases, and when Lonnie's mother called the school to say that Lonnie was sick with a rash, Mr. Crabtree didn't believe it. 'Too convenient,' he said. 'It's probably finger paint or Magic Marker, something like that."

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What does convenient mean?

• to work together

• easy and suitable to a situation