When Mr. G handed Williams the pencil, he did so with a grand ____________. It was over the top and dramatic, but fun.

Stargirl sometimes ran amok through the school, being silly and singing.
In this case amok means:

The class found Mr. G's instructions vague and somewhat confusing.

Here, vague means:

In the morning, the birds flit about outside my window.

Flit means:

Zoos have cages for animals and the cage for birds is called an:

Sometimes it feels like all my friend does is ______________ on about the drama in their life. I would love them to be quiet for five minutes.

Every summer my family takes a long ___________ through the Grand Canyon, camping as we walk.

To be disdainful means to be:

While Wayne moves through life disdainfully, Stargirl lives her life:

We used to call people with a __________ fascination with unpleasant things like death, goth.

The good thing about all the middle school classes being on the same floor is that all of the rooms are in close ______________.

The small creeks converged into one massive river near Hoboken.
In this sentence, converged means:

The class was so shocked when Mr. G's dog Teddy ran into the class and stole his lunch that all they could do was ______ at him.

Stargirl's many ___________ really seem to confuse Leo, the narrator, in the book Stargirl.