2. Puffed with vanity (pride) Ex. The mother swung around to take a good look at her child, and pompously put her hands on her hips.

3. Express through a scornful smile Ex. Monkeys at a birthday? Her mother had sneered.

4. Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits Ex. “You, yes, but not the others, they’re much too boisterous, they might break something.”

5. A word acted out in an episode of the game of charades Ex. When they split into two teams to play charades, all the boys wanted her for their side.

6. To an exceedingly great extent or degree Ex. Senora Ines had asked her to help pass the cake around, and Rosaura had enjoyed the task immensely, because everyone called out to her, shouting "Me, me!"

7. Search haphazardly (chaotically) Ex. Instead, she rummaged in her purse.

8. Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct Ex. instinctively she pressed herself against her mother's body.

9.  Quickwrite before reading: “Have you ever wanted something desperately but could not afford it? How would you describe that feeling?”  Complete analysis questions