On Purpose

Determine the purpose: How can you say you have no brains? Your head is as big as a pumpkin, honey.

• beg

• scare

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: If you crack three eggs into a bowl, beat the mixture to a froth, then apply it to your head with a cheese knife, your hairdo will last for almost two and a half years.

• teach

• beg

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: If you get caught chewing gum, they will take you down into the boiler room and make you drink dishwater from the cafeteria.

• beg

• scare

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: I'm having a party Saturday night, and I sure wish you would come -- dressed in something washable.

• invite

• teach

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: About midnight at our family reunion, we heard someone shouting, "Take that, you little monsters!" We ran to the tent next door to find Uncle Zachary leaping over sleeping bags, trying to swat mosquitoes with Aunt Lorna's wig. I laughed so hard I fell into a tent pole and collapsed the whole thing.

• invite

• teach

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: If you let me go to camp, I'll scrub your tennis racket with a toothbrush, keep Toby out of your bath tub, and take my vitamins every night for the rest of my life.

• invite

• beg

• comfort

• entertain

Determine the purpose: You can run the three-legged race and win because you have three legs! Go out there and give it your all!

• invite

• beg

• encourage

• entertain