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People's first names have meaning in the sense that, when one is chosen from thousands of possibilities, it's usually picked because it has some special significance. But these names have another kind of meaning — they're also words that you can look up in the dictionary and use in other senses, beyond just what you've decided to call your pet parakeet or your first child.
After the death of his father, Chuck Bell spends the summer with grandparents and finds solace in basketball. Learn these words from the prequel to The Crossover.