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Match each term to it's sentence.
I socked him over the head with a fence ___ to make him let go. He was so scairt he couldn't let go of that dress. And he's so God damn strong, you know."
Candy sat on the edge of his bunk. He scratched the ___ of his wrist nervously. "I got hurt four year ago," he said. "They'll can me purty soon. Jus' as soon as I can't swamp out no bunk houses they'll put me on the county.
The guys in Weed start a party out to ___ Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day.
George handed the pup to him. "Awright. You get him back there quick, and don't you take him out no more. You'll kill him, the first thing you know." Lennie fairly ___d out of the room.
Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game, and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or ____.
He looked ___ly at the wall over Lennie's head. "An' it'd be our own, an 'nobody could can us. If we don't like a guy we can say, 'Get the hell out,' and by God he's got to do it.
"Got no teeth," he said. "He's all stiff with ____. He ain't no good to you, Candy. An' he ain't no good to himself.”
Candy lay still, staring at the ceiling. Slim gazed at him for a moment and then looked down at his hands; he ____d one hand with the other, and held it down.
You're yella as a frog belly. I don't care if you're the best ____ in the country. You come for me, an' I'll kick your God damn head off."
They all sat still, all ___d by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about.