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	My Digital Vocabulary Glossary
Source	Word	How it was used in the book.	What the dictionary says.
Loser	Bawling	She hopes he won't break out bawling.
Loser	Agreeable	He seems agreeable enough.
Loser	Utterly	Zinkoff is utterly serious.
Loser	Hooked	He is hooked.
Loser	Dramatically	She pauses dramatically.
Loser	Gnarled	As her anger rises, the gnarled hands begin to churn over each other as if she is washing them in gritty soap.
Loser	Booger	Of course, Zinkoff's classmates know what an easy laugher he is, so whenever they wish to be entertained, all they have to do is get Zinkoff's attention and stick out a tongue or pretend to pick and flick a booger.
Loser	Beams	Zinkoff beams, not knowing the meaning of the word.
Loser	Outstare	He squints into the sun, tries to outstare the sun, turns away thrilled and laughing.
Loser	Atrocious	"Your handwriting is atrocious!"
Loser	Shambles	In all the ways that teacher Biswell can see, the Z boy is a shambles.
National Geographic Explorer	Caracal	Servals and caracals sneak around quietly.
National Geographic Explorer	Lechwe	Red lechwe dance across shallow water.
National Geographic Explorer	Sitatunga	We surprise a sitatunga
Loser	Abundantly	It has invaded the school building and multiplied abundantly.
Loser	Mediocre	His sloppy handwriting and artwork, his
National Geographic Explorer	Tonic Immobility	It's know as Tonic Immobility
Sarah Bishop	Whanging	You would hear a whanging sound, then the bullets going overhead close.
Sarah Bishop	Tolerate	We can't tolerate people having pictures of the king in there houses.
Sarah Bishop	Flax	In England, before we came to America, we had lived on a farm and raised a few sheep and planted potatoes one year and flax the next.
Sarah Bishop	Pendulum	Mrs. Ryder's grandfather clock, which had something wrong with it's pendulum.
Sarah Bishop	Carryall	We usually went to church on foot, but it had rained hard in the night and the road was muddy, so we hitched our two horses to the carryall and set off.
Sarah Bishop	Drover	While he was there he heard that a drover had been seen hurrying east just the day before, driving twelve horses.
Sarah Bishop	Outbuildings	A few people had come to see the fire burn our house and all the outbuildings.