MAKING SOME BONES ABOUT IT
5 RANDOM WORDS FROM THE NOVEL
4-Letter Words with an "X"
The Cold Truth
PALINDROMIC WORDS
100

The masseter muscle closes the mouth by elevating this jawbone

Mandible

100

Beast,
conch,
the,
Piggy,
asthma

Lord of the Flies

100

In 2015 CNN reported 30% of teens have broken up or been broken up with this way

Text

100

Chionophobia is an extreme fear of this cold substance

Snow

100

A bomb that fails to explode

Dud

200

Types of bone fractures include simple (aka closed) or this (aka open)

Compound

200

Thirteen,

cabbage

watching,

Julia,

Brother


1984

200

Passing this No. 4 on I-80 East in Utah, you might want to be aware that No. 41, the upcoming one, is 37 miles away

Exit

200

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific term for this sensation when you consume something very cold & wish you hadn't

Brain Freeze

200

This short word comes before "economy" in the name of the transitory workforce world

Gig

300

To reduce the risk of broken bones, do weight-bearing exercises & take calcium with this vitamin that's also a hormone

Vitamin D

300

Kerosene,
once,
if,
books,
Beatty

Fahrenheit 451

300

Someone who brings nothing but bad luck might be called a this; it's also in the title of a docuseries about Robert Durst

Jinx

300

The winter sport biathlon combines these 2 activities into one event

Skiing and Shooting

300

A female Merino (sheep)

Ewe

400

There are red & yellow types of this fatty tissue that lines the medullary canals of long bones

Marrow

400

A Pulitzer winner: Maycomb,
Calpurnia,
reckon,
were,
shotgun

To Kill a Mockingbird

400

If you miss the ferry on Fire Island, you can get where you need to go on a "water" this; there's no meter, though

(Water) Taxi

400

A word from the Sámi language gives us this name for the zone of cold, treeless ground found north of the Arctic Circle

Tundra

400

Horizontal, or to make something flat

Level

500

There are five of these bones between the wrist & the fingers; they are numbered 1 through 5, with 1 corresponding to the thumb

The Metacarpals

500

phonies,
crumby,
school,
Phoebe,
at

The Catcher in the Rye

500

Casually mentioning to the deli meat guy at Costco that you made it on "Jeopardy!" might be this, slang for bragging

Flex

500

This movie theater candy staple combines semi-sweet chocolate chips covered with white nonpareils

Sno-Caps

500

It's found before "cuff" in your shoulder

Rotator

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