Drum, Girls and Dangerous Pie Ch. 9 Vocabulary

By the time the bus pulled up at my stop, I was convinced that as soon as I got on, all eyes would immediately swing to the front, pinning me in the merciless glare of massed teenage inquisition.

• glaring

• questioning

• concern

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

She knew something was up, even if she couldn't immediately tie me down and administer truth serum on a yellow bus in the middle of South Main Street, I could see in her eyes that she was wanting to wrestle the info out of me somehow.

• shock

• juice

• clear, pale liquid

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Everyone agreed to that and the meeting was adjourned just as the period ended.

• suspended

• beside

• started

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Of course when I walked back into math class I got a big look from the teacher, but it wasn't the withering one I would have gotten the week before.

• sad

• happy

• angry

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CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Instead it was the same kind of semi-pitying, semi-trying-to-be-cheerful grimace that all of our home visitors had pasted onto their faces just as they rang our doorbell.

• grin

• frown

• stare

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Renee sashayed onto the bus, looked around until she locked eyes with me, and took Annette's empty seat.

• moved smoothly

• stomped

• ran

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4