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Opening Night

It's opening night, and Vinny is the leading man. Each scene calls for a different mood, and a true star knows the verb tells the audience how to feel. Fill in each action verb so its connotation matches the moment named.

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Action verb (confident) Slot 1
Make it walk tall. Try strode, swaggered, or breezed.
Action verb (weary) Slot 2
Make every step heavy. Try trudged, dragged, or staggered.
Action verb (heavy weight) Slot 3
The world is a burden here. Try pressed, weighed, or bore down.
Action verb (sneaky) Slot 4
Quiet and unseen. Try slunk, crept, or prowled.
Action verb (menacing) Slot 5
Slow and scary. Try stalked, loomed, or bore down.
Action verb (clumsy) Slot 6
Trip over yourself. Try bumbled, stumbled, or wobbled.
Transitive action verb Slot 7
The door receives it. Try knocked, smacked, or shoved.
Action verb (tender) Slot 8
Soft and graceful. Try drifted, glided, or floated.
Transitive action verb Slot 9
The rose gets the action. Try lifted, offered, or tossed.
Action verb (triumphant) Slot 10
Big and grand. Try swept, bounded, or marched.
Transitive action verb Slot 11
He moves the cape. Try flourished, swirled, or flung.
Action verb (grand) Slot 12
Own the moment. Try bowed, waved, or nodded.
Intransitive action verb Slot 13
The curtain just does it. Try fell, dropped, or swept.

Vinny is waiting in the wings. When you finish, he'll act out all twelve entrances and read it back to you.