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Trashketball

Trashketball. The Phantom Tollbooth: Lesson 2. Rules of Trashketball. Stay in your seats at all times. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND Write ONE response to the question on a slip of paper. All teams will hold up their answers.

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Trashketball

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  1. Trashketball The Phantom Tollbooth: Lesson 2

  2. Rules of Trashketball • Stay in your seats at all times. • You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question AND • Write ONE response to the question on a slip of paper. • All teams will hold up their answers. • If you are correct, your team will get the opportunity to shoot the correct response into the trashcan from the 1 or 2 point line. • If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit.

  3. make a rut, groove, or trail in (the ground or the surface of something).

  4. Furrow

  5. extremely large

  6. Colossal

  7. a public or official announcement, esp. one dealing with a matter of great importance

  8. Proclamation

  9. lack of harmony among musical notes.

  10. Dissonance

  11. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

  12. Melancholy

  13. causing hatred or disgust; repulsive

  14. Loathsome

  15. dependent on chance; uncertain

  16. Precarious

  17. giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening

  18. Ominous

  19. comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

  20. Grotesque

  21. deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

  22. Desolate

  23. The ______________ expression on her face made me frown.

  24. Melancholy

  25. The ___________ wilderness is bounded only by the distant Red Sea.

  26. desolate

  27. The _____________ smell coming from the garbage can was caused by the expired cheese.

  28. loathsome

  29. Each plot of land was divided from its neighbor by a deep ___________.

  30. furrow

  31. As I approached the volcano, I could hear its _________ rumblings.

  32. Ominous

  33. The way the bird's cage was placed on top of the counter was very _______________.

  34. precarious

  35. The statues had been carved to represent evil spirits and had the most ___________ faces, complete with horns and bulging eyes

  36. grotesque

  37. The official ______________ was read by the Mayor of the town from the balcony of the Town Hall

  38. proclamation

  39. Jennifer’s idea to skip school seemed like a good idea at the time but turned out to be a _______________ mistake.

  40. colossal

  41. After the winner was announced, there was such great ___________ in the crowed it caused a riot to break out.

  42. dissonance

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