Freak the Mighty Vocabulary in Context | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

“Optimum darkness occurs at oh-three-hundred hours,” he says, looking at the new watch his mom gave him, the kind that tells you what time it is in Tokyo, just in case you’re wondering.

most wanted, favorable, or desirable; best possible

“Now swear on your heart that the data you are about to receive will be DIVULGED to no one.”

to disclose (something confidential or secret); tell, reveal

So mostly I just VEGETATE in the basement and pick my navel, to quote Grim, Mr. Belly Button Lint himself.

to be lazy, inactive; sit around

“The Blade and his gang,” Freak hisses. “They’ve locked on to us. Their TRAJECTORY is converging. Go to the left,” he says. “Make it quick, if you want to live!”

path of a moving object; route, course

It’s just that people tend to get all choked up about firecracker holidays, and they don’t see what’s really going on, which like I say is the dads SWILLING beer and acting numb, that’s the basic formula. Not that Grim ever SWILLS anything

drink rapidly, gulp

I never...could ABIDE that man. I always thought he was crazy and...scary

to put up with; stand, tolerate, accept

“Gram must be your grandmother,” he says. “Grim would be, I suppose, a SOBRIQUET for your grandfather, based on his DEMEANOR”

Nickname..............Facial expression, appearance

I go up the BULKHEAD stairs into the back yard and find a place where I can check it out.

inclined, horizontal structure over the stairway to a cellar

Okay, I’m out there messing around and that’s when I see the moving van. Not your MAINSTREAM, nationwide, brandname mover, either, just some cheapo local outfit.

normal, typical, ordinary, conventional

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that’s the truth, the whole truth. The UNVANQUISHED truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

unbeaten, winning, victorious, successful, unsurpassed, triumphant