1. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
chapters 6-10
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2. swilling—drinking greedily or grossly

3. strutting—walking with head up high, chest out, expecting to impress others

4. *cretin—mentally defective person

5. *deficiency—lack; incompleteness; insufficiency

6. *perspective—viewpoint; visible scene; vista

7. *trajectory—path of a body moving through space

8. *converging—meeting at a point

9. swaggering—walking in a defiant manner

10. nanosecond—one-billionth of a second

11. *evasive—elusive; trying to avoid doing something

12. *confrontation—face-to-face conflict

13. albino—a person with pale skin, very light hair, and pinkish eyes due to lack of pigmentation

14. vegetate—to do nothing; be unthinking

15. *archetype—model or first form; prototype

16. *microsurgery—delicate surgery performed under magnification

17. artifact—man-made object or tool, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage

18. *avarice--greed

19. sucrose--sugar

20. incision—cut, especially in surgery

21. *divulged—made known (as something secret)

22. bionic—having particular physiological functions replaced by electronic components

23. modification—alteration; change in shape or form

24. *optimum—most desirable; best

25. dungarees—jeans

26. *fealty—loyalty

27. *retrieval—recovering; reeling in

28. grotty—disgusting; dirty; gross

29. damsel—young woman of noble birth

30. *distress—great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.