Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1-Greg Heffley’s Journal Vocabulary & Ldioms

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1-Greg Heffley’s Journal Vocabulary & Ldioms

1. cartoonist(cartoon)
1) Wednesday Today at school they announced there’s an opening for the cartoonist job in the school paper. 2) That means the cartoonist job is open again, and maybe I have a shot.

2. prank(prank)
1) It’s not like I’m known for being real funny at school or anything, but if I can pull off one big prank right before voting, that could do it. 2) So the next time Rowley went upstairs to use the bathroom, I played a prank on him.

3. enthusiastic(enthusiastic)
1) Rowley was so enthusiastic about it that I tried my best to act like I was happy anyway. 2) His mom said she was excited to see Fregley with a “playmate,” which was a term I was not too enthusiastic about. 3) I showed Rowley the script, but he wasn’t too enthusiastic about the idea.

4. cafeteria(cafeteria)
1) All I can say is, if anyone wants a free yearbook, they can dig one out of the trash can in the back of the cafeteria. 2) Monday Ever since Career Day, Rowley has been spending lunch with a bunch of girls who sit at the corner table in the cafeteria.

5. impressed(impress)
1) Everybody was pretty impressed with my ideas, but it was easy to come up with them. 2) Gupta didn’t seem too impressed with my apology, but believe it or not, Chirag was actually pretty cool about it.

6. comic(comic)
1) Bryan has this comic called “Wacky Dawg,” and when it started off, it was actually pretty funny. 2) He reads the same comic books I read, drinks the same kind of soda I drink, you name it.

7. relieved(relieved)
1) Then he told me I was relieved of my Safety Patrol duties “effective immediately.” 2) I’m actually kind of relieved, to be honest with you.

8. cafeteria(cafeteria)
1) All I can say is, if anyone wants a free yearbook, they can dig one out of the trash can in the back of the cafeteria. 2) Monday Ever since Career Day, Rowley has been spending lunch with a bunch of girls who sit at the corner table in the cafeteria.

9. trash(trash)
All I can say is, if anyone wants a free yearbook, they can dig one out of the trash can in the back of the cafeteria.

10. flipped(flip)
I flipped to the Class Favorites page, and here’s the picture that was waiting for me.

11. appreciated(appreciate)
June Friday Well, if Rowley appreciated what I did for him last week, he hasn’t said it.

12. froze(froze)
For a second there, everyone just froze.

13. panic(panic)
Rowley was starting to panic, and I don’t blame him, either.

14. karate(karate)
I thought about mentioning to Rowley that maybe he could have pulled out a couple of his karate moves back there, but something told me to hold off on that thought for right now.

15. situation(situation)
1) I told her I was in a tough situation, and I didn’t know what to do. 2) I started to panic, because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to fight my way out of this situation.

16. concerned(concerned)
But to be honest with you, I was more concerned about something else.

17. teenagers(teenager)
But all the other kids took off when the teenagers started heading our way.

18. leprechaun(leprechaun)
And you could tell Rowley didn’t know what he was doing either, because he just started prancing around like a leprechaun.

19. punches(punch)
Me and Rowley tried to walk away, but those guys weren’t going to let us go until they saw us throw some punches.

20. credit(credit)
Rowley is getting all the credit for a comic that we came up with together.

21. volunteered(volunteer)
But that all changed after Mom volunteered to be a chaperone for our field trip to the zoo when I was in third grade.

22. substitute(substitute)
Worth told us he has a dentist’s appointment tomorrow, so we’re going to have a substitute.

23. prank(prank)
1) It’s not like I’m known for being real funny at school or anything, but if I can pull off one big prank right before voting, that could do it. 2) So the next time Rowley went upstairs to use the bathroom, I played a prank on him.

24. Talented(talented)
That’s where they put pictures of the kids who get voted Most Popular and Most Talented and all that.

25. snoring(snore)
After I woke up, I cracked the door open, and I heard snoring coming from Fregley’s room.

26. chased(chase)
Fregley started acting like a total maniac, and he chased me all around his upstairs.

27. maniac(maniac)
Fregley started acting like a total maniac, and he chased me all around his upstairs.

28. bouncing(bouncing)
Fregley’s one of these kids who’s not supposed to eat any sugar, so two minutes later, he was bouncing off the walls.

29. blacked(black)
That’s the last thing I remember before I blacked out.

30. enthusiastic(enthusiastic)
1) Rowley was so enthusiastic about it that I tried my best to act like I was happy anyway. 2) His mom said she was excited to see Fregley with a “playmate,” which was a term I was not too enthusiastic about. 3) I showed Rowley the script, but he wasn’t too enthusiastic about the idea.

31. incident(incident)
April Friday Ever since the worm incident, Rowley has been hanging out with Collin Lee every day after school.

32. lame(lame)
And that’s really lame, because if I recall correctly, He’s the one that sold me out.

33. relieved(relieved)
1) Then he told me I was relieved of my Safety Patrol duties “effective immediately.” 2) I’m actually kind of relieved, to be honest with you.

34. nap(nap)
We were supposed to hang out after school today, but he said he was just going to go home and take a nap.

35. situation(situation)
1) I told her I was in a tough situation, and I didn’t know what to do. 2) I started to panic, because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to fight my way out of this situation.

36. suspended(suspend)
Winsky told Rowley he’s going to have to apologize to the kindergartners tomorrow morning, and that he’s suspended from Patrols for a week.

37. witnessed(witness)
Winsky got a call from a parent who said they witnessed Rowley “terrorizing” the kindergartners when he was supposed to be walking them home from school.

38. practically(practically)
1) But if there’s one thing I learned from Rodrick, it’s to set people’s expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. 2) Ira was done with it, you practically couldn’t recognize it as the same strip.

39. minor(minor)
Ira told me he had made some “minor edits” to my comic.

40. competition(competition)
Most of them were pretty bad, so I wasn’t too worried about the competition.

41. concentrate(concentrate)
” That way we wouldn’t get bogged down with having to write actual jokes, and we could concentrate on the pictures.

42. cartoonist(cartoon)
1) Wednesday Today at school they announced there’s an opening for the cartoonist job in the school paper. 2) That means the cartoonist job is open again, and maybe I have a shot.

43. comic(comic)
1) Bryan has this comic called “Wacky Dawg,” and when it started off, it was actually pretty funny. 2) He reads the same comic books I read, drinks the same kind of soda I drink, you name it.

44. ironic(ironic)
Levine, my English teacher, was there, I’m sure she would have said the whole situation was “ironic.”

45. ambushed(ambush)
Right when it looked like we were going to get in an all-out fight, we got ambushed from the street.

46. pathetic(pathetic)
It was actually kind of pathetic.

47. grocery(grocery)
During one of our breaks, Mom came outside to go to the grocery store, but our snowball was blocking her car in.

48. marching(march)
So tomorrow morning, when the Whirley Street kids come marching up our hill, me and Rowley are going to teach those guys a lesson.

49. sod(sod)
The snowball had gotten so heavy that it tore up all the sod Dad had just laid down this fall.

50. labor(labor)
So we got a little free labor out of her.

51. slacked(slack)
We were supposed to have a test in Pre-Algebra, and I’ve kind of slacked off ever since I became a Safety Patrol.

52. diaper(diaper)
I’ll take these kids home, but believe me, I didn’t sign up for any diaper duty.

53. kindergartners(kindergarten)
At 12:15, me and Rowley left school and walked the kindergartners home.

54. sentence(sentence)
But I gave him a wicked pinch underneath the desk before he could finish his sentence.

55. Patrols(patrol)
Later on, they made an announcement that there are some openings on the Safety Patrols, and that got me thinking.

56. assembly(assembly)
Thursday In school today they had a general assembly and showed the movie “It’s Great to Be Me,” which they show us every year.

57. contributors(contributor)
So Ricky ended up being one of the most valuable contributors on this project.

58. impressed(impress)
1) Everybody was pretty impressed with my ideas, but it was easy to come up with them. 2) Gupta didn’t seem too impressed with my apology, but believe it or not, Chirag was actually pretty cool about it.

59. claim(claim)
Ricky’s big claim to fame is that he’ll pick the gum off the bottom of a desk and chew it if you pay him fifty cents.

60. swarmed(swarm)
I couldn’t figure out why the girls weren’t swarming me like they swarmed Rowley, but then I realized what the problem was.

61. backfired(backfire)
I tried to cash in on some of Rowley’s new popularity, but it totally backfired.

62. crank(crank)
I thought I could just crank out my thank-you cards in a half hour, but when it came to actually writing them, my mind went blank.

63. resolution(resolution)
And that’s also why my only New Year’s resolution is to never play with Manny again.

64. spider(spider)
I found a tiny black ball of thread on the carpet, and I told Manny it was a spider.

65. violent(violent)
That is, until Rowley’s dad finds out how violent it is.

66. enthusiastic(enthusiastic)
1) Rowley was so enthusiastic about it that I tried my best to act like I was happy anyway. 2) His mom said she was excited to see Fregley with a “playmate,” which was a term I was not too enthusiastic about. 3) I showed Rowley the script, but he wasn’t too enthusiastic about the idea.

67. helicopter(helicopter)
I gave Manny a toy helicopter and I gave Rodrick a book about rock bands.

68. garage(garage)
He told me he had my gift for me out in the garage, and the reason it was out there was because it was too big to wrap.

69. hyping(hype)
From the way Rowley was hyping his present, I thought he must have gotten me a big-screen TV or a motorcycle or something.

70. confused(confused)
But Mom seemed pretty confused, too.

71. fortune(fortune)
That thing must have cost a fortune.

72. relatives(relative)
The rest of the relatives started showing up around 11:00, and Uncle Charlie came at noon.

73. swoops(swoop)
Whenever someone opens a gift, Dad swoops right in and cleans up after them.

74. imagine(imagine)
Because imagine if all you got on Christmas was a wool sweater.

75. appropriate(appropriate)
Dad told me to start my wish list over and pick some toys that were more “appropriate” for boys.

76. circling(circle)
He was even circling really expensive things like a giant motorized car and stuff like that.

77. tipped(tip)
In fact, the only thing that tipped me off that Christmas was coming was when Rodrick put his wish list up on the refrigerator.

78. whispered(whisper)
Norton must have thought we forgot the words to the song, because she came over to the side of the stage and whispered the rest of the lyrics to us.

79. curtains(curtain)
The curtains rose, and when they did, I heard Manny’s voice.

80. stage(stage)
You’d figure that someone whose job it was to sit on the stage and do nothing could just suck it up for one performance.

81. supposed(supposed)
1) Halloween About an hour before we were supposed to start trick-or-treating, I still didn’t have a costume. 2) The play was supposed to start at 8:00, but it got delayed because Rodney James had stage fright.

82. production(production)
Tuesday Tonight was the big school production of “The Wizard of Oz.”

83. degrading(degrading)
But today, the kid’s mom came in and said she wanted her child to walk around on two legs, because crawling around on all fours would be too “degrading.”

84. mess(mess)
But when you only have one word to say, it’s really hard to mess up your lines.

85. audience(audience)
Getting to peg Patty Farrell with apples in front of a live audience would be my dream come true.

86. Witch(witch)
I thought about trying out for the part of the Witch, because I heard that in the play, the Witch does all sorts of mean things to Dorothy.

87. giggling(giggle)
I have no idea what a “soprano” is, but from the way some of the girls were giggling, I knew it wasn’t a good thing.

88. practices(practice)
I told Dad that Mom was making me sign up for the school play, and that if I had to start going to play practices, it would totally mess up my weight-lifting schedule.

89. definitely(definitely)
1) But having Rowley around is definitely not helping. 2) And I will definitely be looking for a way to pay her back for that one.

90. quiz(quiz)
Wednesday Today in Geography we had a quiz, and I have to say, I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time.

91. rescue(rescue)
I eventually had to rescue him, because he started biting the milk jug to let the sand leak out.

92. serious(serious)
I knew Rowley wasn’t going to be as serious about weight lifting as I was, so I decided to try out an experiment to test his dedication.

93. broomstick(broomstick)
Then I taped them to a broomstick, and I had myself a pretty decent barbell.

94. bench(bench)
Then Dad said if I wanted a bench press, I should keep my fingers crossed for Christmas.

95. ripped(rip)
I showed them some muscle magazines I got at the store so they could see how ripped I was going to be.

96. bulk(bulk)
I figure if I bulk up now, it could actually come in handy down the road.

97. pinned(pin)
Underwood was giving instructions, because he pinned me every which way you could imagine.

98. divided(divide)
Underwood divided us up into weight groups.

99. demonstrate(demonstrate)
Underwood started asking for volunteers so he could demonstrate some wrestling holds, but there was no way I was going to raise my hand.

100. threat(threat)
In fact, the other kids in my class had better look out, because if I keep this up, I could be a real threat.

101. wrestling(wrestling)
Underwood, our Phys Ed teacher, announced that the boys will be doing a wrestling unit for the next six weeks.

102. wrapped(wrap)
The only things we could salvage were a couple of mints that were wrapped in cellophane, and the toothbrushes Dr.

103. fence(fence)
So we snuck out the back door, hopped over Gramma’s fence, and ran all the way to Snake Road.

104. general(general)
Rowley was kind of making owl noises, but I guess it was the same general idea.

105. budge(budge)
I tried to trick them into leaving, but they wouldn’t budge.

106. extinguisher(extinguisher)
The kid in the back was holding a fire extinguisher, and when the truck passed by us, he opened fire.

107. squirm(squirm)
Dad tried to squirm out of it, but once Mom makes up her mind, there’s no way you can change it.

108. underneath(underneath)
She made him wear his winter coat underneath everything, and she replaced his sword with a glow stick.

109. clogging(clog)
I started thinking about all the money we were losing with this kid clogging up the Hall of Screams, and I knew we had to get him out of there, quick.

110. admit(admit)
I admit that if you looked around, it didn’t really look like a haunted house.

111. convinced(convinced)
I tried to show Rowley’s dad our original plan to prove that we really were running a legitimate operation, but he still didn’t seem convinced.

112. legitimate(legitimate)
I tried to show Rowley’s dad our original plan to prove that we really were running a legitimate operation, but he still didn’t seem convinced.

113. bucks(buck)
So at least we cleared two bucks today.

114. effect(effect)
1) In the past few years, the grown-ups in my neighborhood have been getting cranky about my lame costumes, and I’m starting to think it’s actually having an effect on the amount of candy I’m bringing in. 2) I did my best to keep up with what was going on on the screen, but to be honest with you, I’m not sure if Rowley was getting the full effect.

115. supposed(supposed)
1) Halloween About an hour before we were supposed to start trick-or-treating, I still didn’t have a costume. 2) The play was supposed to start at 8:00, but it got delayed because Rodney James had stage fright.

116. costume(costume)
I’ve never had a store-bought costume before.

117. knight(knight)
Rowley’s Mom got him this knight costume that’s way cooler than his costume from last year.

118. punishing(punishing)
That last part really isn’t fair, because that’s punishing me, and I didn’t even do anything wrong.

119. admission(admission)
So I told the kids that admission was two bucks, and the fifty-cent thing was just a typo.

120. stretched(stretch)
I’ll admit maybe we stretched the truth a little in our advertisement, but we had to make sure people actually showed up.

121. bother(bother)
I tried not to let it bother me too much, though.

122. campaign(campaign)
Dad dug through some old boxes in the basement and found one of his campaign posters.

123. Treasurer(treasurer)
So I figure if I sign up tomorrow, the Treasurer job is pretty much mine for the taking.

124. announced(announce)
Thursday At school today, they announced that student government elections are coming up.

125. punishment(punishment)
Rodrick’s punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him.

126. sarcastic(sarcastic)
The first time Dad ever said “friend” like that to me, I didn’t get that he was being sarcastic.

127. Honestly(honestly)
Honestly, sometimes I don’t know about that boy.

128. drove(drove)
That really bugged Rodrick, so he drove off to the store and came back fifteen minutes later with some headphones.

129. instruments(instrument)
I think Mom has this idea that we’re all going to learn to play instruments and then become one of those family bands like you see on TV.

130. ridiculous(ridiculous)
All that you have to do to beat Rowley is name your car something ridiculous at the beginning of the game.

131. hassling(hassle)
So tonight after dinner when Dad started hassling me about going outside, I tried to explain how with video games, you can play sports like football and soccer, and you don’t even get all hot and sweaty.

132. pranks(prank)
Monday You know how I said I play all sorts of pranks on Rowley?

133. definitely(definitely)
1) But having Rowley around is definitely not helping. 2) And I will definitely be looking for a way to pay her back for that one.

134. considerate(considerate)
Unfortunately, Dad wakes up at 6:00 in the morning no matter what day of the week it is, and he is not real considerate of the fact that I am trying to enjoy my Saturday like a normal person.

135. expectations(expectation)
But if there’s one thing I learned from Rodrick, it’s to set people’s expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

136. practically(practically)
1) But if there’s one thing I learned from Rodrick, it’s to set people’s expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. 2) Ira was done with it, you practically couldn’t recognize it as the same strip.

137. screw(screw)
And to this day, I’m sure Dad thinks I’ve got a screw loose or something.

138. yelling(yell)
But I guess I must have made a pretty big racket because the next thing I knew, Dad was downstairs, yelling at me for eating Cheerios at 3:00 in the morning.

139. stress(stress)
I just hope someone doesn’t start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don’t need that kind of stress in my life anymore.

140. stuff(stuff)
I try to explain all this popularity stuff to my friend Rowley (who is probably hovering right around the 150 mark, by the way), but I think it just goes in one ear and out the other with him.

141. sticking(stick)
But of course now I don’t get any credit for sticking with the girls all this time.

142. elementary(elementary)
It used to be a whole lot simpler back in elementary school.

143. complicated(complicated)
Nowadays, it’s a whole lot more complicated.

144. stuck(stuck)
Like I said, I’ll be famous one day, but for now I’m stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.

145. figure(figure)
The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I’m rich and famous, I’ll have better things to do than answer people’s stupid questions all day long.

146. Journal(journal)
a Wimpy Kid GREG HEFFLEY’S JOURNAL TO MOM, DAD, RE, SCOTT, AND PATRICK September Tuesday First of all, let me get something straight: This is a Journal, not a diary.

147. dog-eared(dog-eared)
What’s been very rewarding to me as an author has been seeing kids carrying their dog-eared copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid with them.

148. crisp(crisp)
The Kindle allows kids to have the whole series at their fingertips, and the reading experience is crisp and clean every time . . . with no chance of today’s breakfast staining the pages.