Vocabulary BTT

"Yeah. I think all the schools did. Or most of them anyway." She ____________. "I really miss it. I'm pretty good at gymnastics."

• sighed

• solemn

• threatened

• odd

Leslie reread the note, _______________  approval.  "Good. You misspelled 'believe' and 'two."

• cheap

• odd

• nodding

• sighed

He nodded, and without speaking, they went back to the creek bank where they shared together a ____________   meal of crackers and dried fruit. 

• cheap

• proud

• grinning

• solemn

"Sure." She was  ________________________. "Why not?"

• sob

• grinning

• mumbled

• threatened

Leslie liked to make up stories about the giants that _____________ the peace of Terabithia, but they both knew that the real giant in their lives was Janice.

• threatened

• mumbled

• grinning

• odd

At the stronghold he tied the ribbon around the puppy's neck, laughing as it backed out of the loop and chewed at the ends of the ribbon. It was a clever, lively little thing - a present Jess could be ______________ of.  

• cheap

• proud

• odd

• sob

"What little girl?" He _______________  it, knowing it was the wrong thing to ask.

• odd

• cheap

• mumbled

• grinning

Maybe that was why his stomach felt so ________.  He hadn't had anything to eat since the ice cream Miss Edmunds had bought them at Millsburg on the way home.

• odd

• sob

• cheap

• solemn

“___________ junk." His father kicked at the floor dangerously near the track. "Don't get nothing for your money these days."

• sighed

• odd

• solemn

• cheap

Suddenly his mother let out a great shuddering _______________. "O my God. O my God."

• sob

• sighed

• cheap

• mumbled