Loser

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Loser

• Vocabulary and Parts of Speech

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Vocabulary what do the underlined words mean?

• Giddy with freedom and speed, he runs to the end
  of the block, turns right and runs on. Page 4
• A few shake their heads in vigorous denial. Page
  14
• Zinkoffs mother impressed upon him the etiquette
  of throwing up. Page 41

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• My handwriting is atrocious! he announces to
  his parents at the dinner table that day. Page 54
• He goes into the hospital and they put him to
  sleep and the doctor turns the upside-down valve
  in his stomach right-side up. Page 78
• But it happens a lot during his 3 weeks of
  convalescing. Page 81

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• Nevertheless he doesnt go near the cellar door.
  Page 87
• He is forever making pronouncements that give
  Zinkoff new views of himself. Page 96
• And even how to spell the word she pauses
  dramatically, she opens her eyes wide as if
  seeing the wonderful futuretintinnabulation.
  Page 14

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What parts of speech are the underlined words?
pronoun

• From that day on, when he sees stormy weather
  out the classroom window, he thinks of his dad
  trudging heroically through the blizzard saying,
  Piece a cakepiece a cake
• The night before, Donald went to bed fervently
  wishing for a blizzard the next day.

adjective
noun
verb
adverb
adverb
verb
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Proper noun
adjective
noun

• Polly is seventeen months old by now. She
  speaks very little at this point, but one thing
  she does say is Bye-bye. She says it
  distinctly---in fact, she shouts it---and she
  says it whenever she sees someone leaving the
  house.

verb
adverb
pronoun
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Giddy

• Dizzy, causing dizziness

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Vigorous

• With strength or force in general, powerful action

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Etiquette

• The conventional requirements of polite behavior,
  good manners

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Atrocious

• Extremely wicked, criminal, or cruel

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Valve

• A hinged lid or flap used to control the flow of
  a fluid through a pipe

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Convalescing

• Recovering gradually after sickness

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Nevertheless

• In spite of that, yet

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Pronouncements

• Declarations, formal announcements

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Tintinnabulation

• The sound of bells ringing

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