How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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  1. buckaroo
    local names for a cowboy
    When "Kid Bleff" finally calls his aunt (from a phone booth comically plunked down in the middle of nowhere), she invites him to bring his pals to her house for a barbecue-Teague's (The Field Beyond the Outfield) boy buckaroo, however, still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
  2. trick up
    put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    When "Kid Bleff" finally calls his aunt (from a phone booth comically plunked down in the middle of nowhere), she invites him to bring his pals to her house for a barbecue-Teague's (The Field Beyond the Outfield) boy buckaroo, however, still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
  3. tall tale
    an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story
    Told in rollicking rhymed verse, this is one rootin' tootin' tall tale.
  4. pompadour
    a hair style in which the hair is swept up from the forehead
    Her spectacles perched on her nose and her hair coiffed in a Father Knows Best pompadour, Wallace Bleff's teacher looks on as the boy delivers an oral report on that classic topic, How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
  5. rollick
    play boisterously
    Told in rollicking rhymed verse, this is one rootin' tootin' tall tale.
  6. expanse
    a wide and open space or area, as of land, sea, or sky
    The classroom setting gives way to an expanse of Western plains, across which a locomotive train rumbles, bringing Wallace to visit his aunt.
  7. garb
    clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
    It won't take kids long to realize that Wallace's imagination is as fertile as ever, as he tells of being captured by cowboys, who outfit him in spiffy Western garb and teach him all their "cowboy tricks."
  8. capture
    seize as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
    It won't take kids long to realize that Wallace's imagination is as fertile as ever, as he tells of being captured by cowboys, who outfit him in spiffy Western garb and teach him all their "cowboy tricks."
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