Friend Me vocabulary quiz

Mrs. Averbuch (United Kingdom)
Test yourself on words from chapters 1 and 2 of FRIEND ME by Sheila M. Averbuch (Scholastic Press), a story about a bullied seventh-grader whose bully has a bad accident, and she starts to worry that her new best friend, who she only knows online, might be responsible.
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  1. wolf down
    eat quickly
    The high school lets out before we do, so my brother’s already there, wolfing down cereal, hairy legs stretched out so I can’t get by.
  2. stomp
    walk heavily
    I hurl the box to the floor and stomp it for the recycling.
  3. traipse
    walk or tramp about
    I traipse down our hill toward Eastborough’s one shopping street, and before I’m even halfway, sweat pricks under my arms.
  4. skitter
    move about or proceed hurriedly
    My phone hums and skitters across the table between us, a grating buzz.
  5. tarmac
    a paved road or surface, especially at an airport
    The hot air is stifling, but the slap of tarmac on my shoes feels good, the gravity of the hill letting me run-fall.
  6. hassle
    annoy continually or chronically
    She keeps hassling me to bring creepy Jeeves along, too: Apparently, if I put him onto my phone, he’ll guide me right to the lasagna in the shop.
  7. obsession
    an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something
    We chatted loads online when I was still in Dublin, laughing about our mothers’ obsession with robots and creepy AI.
  8. simulated
    reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character
    Its rising-falling back, the eerie simulated breathing, makes me want to chuck it against the wall.
  9. lob
    propel in a high arc
    The trickle of cool that the AC wheezes out does nothing, like lobbing an ice cube into a volcano.
  10. eerie
    suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
    Its rising-falling back, the eerie simulated breathing, makes me want to chuck it against the wall.
Created on Thu Sep 23 10:10:52 EDT 2021 (updated Thu Sep 23 10:25:12 EDT 2021)

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