The Wave vocabulary ch.3-5

Laurie is .... by the images on the screen, which keep following her.

• engrossed in

• bummed out

• stocky

• preoccupied

Alex Cooper, the music reviewer of the Grapevine, is the complete opposite of Carl Block, the investigative reporter. While Carl is tall and thing and fair, Alex is dark and ...

• bummed out

• gain weight

• pursue

• stocky

David is the school's football star and he wants to ... a career in computer engineering.

• pursue

• stocky

• preoccupied

• exasperated

Laurie is ... by the attitude of the other members of the publications staff towards The Grapevine and the publishing schedule.

• squeesed in

• bummed out

• engrossed in

• exasperated

Brian is the football team's quaterback. He is rather small and wants desperately to ... so that he can beat the Clarkstown players.

• squeese in

• gain weight

• engrossed in

• pursue

Ben Ross was ... by the questions posed by his students after watching the documentary.

• bothered

• majority

• scattered

• impression

He was not happy with his inability to provide answers . How did the minority overpower the ...?

• majority

• impression

• cram for

• wrapped up in

Ben ... become absorbed in things that interested him.

• scattered

• wrapped up in

• run out of

• tended to

With all the books scattered around him, he gave the impression of someone .... for the test.

• scattered

• run out of

• cramming for

• tend to

At the beginning of the experiment, Ben's class was less that ... about the new rules.

• swept up

• charged up

• enthusiastic

• drill