The Hate U Give - Chapters 21-23

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• Wedgie An occasion when someone's underwear moves or is pulled up so it is uncomfortably tight around, or between the two sides of, their bottom.
• Sassy Confident, rude and showing no respect.
• Testis (Testes in plural) A testicle.
• Gated community A group of houses, surrounded by fences or walls, that can only be entered by the people who live there.
• Plead To make an urgent, emotional statement or request for something.
• Whooping, whoop your ass A threat obtained on the account of insubordination often from parent to child (as well as other exchanges). Although it is usually just an empty threat used to express reproval, it very well can be followed by a severe beatdown or whoop.
• A grin A wide smile.
• Narrow Having a small distance from one side to the other, especially in comparison with the length.
• Chomp To chew food noisily.
• Bracelet A piece of jewellery that is worn around the wrist or arm.
• Wince To show pain or embarrassment suddenly and for a short time in the face, often moving the head back at the same time.
• Riot An occasion when a large number of people behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way in public, often as a protest.
• Smirk A smile that expresses satisfaction or pleasure about having done something or knowing something that is not known by someone else.
• Shatter To (cause something to) break suddenly into very small pieces.
• Loot (Usually of large numbers of people during a violent event) to steal from shops and houses.
• Caress To touch or kiss someone in a gentle and loving way.
• Injustice A situation in which there is no fairness and justice.
• Attorney Someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them in court.
• Bullhorn A megaphone.
• Neighborhood The area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the people who live in this area.
• Ceiling The inside surface of a room that you can see when you look above you.

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