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I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it ____________________ me.

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"You're starved?" Johnny was so ____________________ he nearly squeaked. I remembered the baloney.

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Johnny didn't say anything. But he stared at the dashboard with such hurt ____________________ that I could have bawled.

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If something beefed him, he didn't keep quiet about it, and if you rubbed him the wrong way--look out. Not even Darry wanted to ____________________ with him.

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He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that ____________________, suspicious look in his eyes.

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I started to laugh weakly. I guess that guy knew how close to ____________________ I really was, for he talked to me in a low soothing voice all the way to the hospital.

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He'd grab one guy's press hat and another's camera and walk around interviewing the nurses and ____________________ TV reporters.

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Darry, flexing his muscles so that they bulged like oversized baseballs, ___________________ that he wasn't afraid of any burglars, and that we didn't really have anything worth taking.

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I never could remember exactly what happened in it. Soda began sleeping with me, and it stopped ____________________ so often, but it happened often enough for Darry to take me to a doctor.

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Two-Bit was telling me about one of his many ____________________ while we did the dishes.

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Two-Bit didn't notice the expression in his voice. It's true, I thought ____________________, he is dying.

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That was as far as the ____________________ went. Johnnycake's eyes were fearful and sensitive; hers were cheap and hard.

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It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around a hardware store to ____________________ suspicion.

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Two-Bit left me sitting on the bench at the bus stop while he went to a gas station to buy some cigarettes. I was kind of sick to my stomach and sort of ____________________.

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"All right," Two-Bit said ____________________. "But Darry'll kill me if you're really sick and go ahead and fight anyway."

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Two-Bit knew what I meant, but ____________________ pretended not to. He seemed to feel that if you said something was all right, it immediately was, no matter what.

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compellingly, eagerly, earnestly, frantically, hastily, vigorously?

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baffle, confound, dodge, evade, flee, foil, frustrate, outrun, outwit, puzzle?

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annoyed, furious, heated, incensed, irate?

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confusion, disorientation, perplexity, bafflement?

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embroil, enmesh, snarl?

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conquered, crushed?

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agitation, delirium, excitement, frenzy, madness, panic?

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imitation, parody, caricature?

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utter, drag out, pronounce slowly?

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constant, continual, continuing, persistent, recurrent?

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accomplishments, adventures, deeds, escapades, feats?

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dazed, indifferent, detached?

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closeness, comparison, parallel, alikeness?

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deflect, redirect, switch, avert?

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confused, dazed, shaky, tired, unsteady, wobbly, woozy?

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carefully, cautiously, hesitantly, unwillingly?

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adamantly, decisively, persistently, steadfastly, stubbornly?