SUSIE DERKINS

Susie Derkins is the only important character with both a first and last name. She lives on Calvin’s street and is one of his classmates.

Susie is studious and polite (though she can be aggressive if sufficiently provoked), and she likes to play house or host tea parties with her stuffed animals. She also plays imaginary games with Calvin in which she acts as a high-powered lawyer or politician and wants Calvin to pretend to be her househusband. Though both of them are typically loath to admit it, Calvin and Susie exhibit many common traits. For example, we can see Susie with a stuffed rabbit named “Mr. Bun”. Much like Calvin, Susie has a mischievous streak as well, which we see whenever she subverts Calvin’s attempts to cheat on school tests by feeding him incorrect answers, or whenever she fights back after Calvin attacks her with snowballs or water balloons.

Hobbes often openly expresses romantic feelings for Susie, to Calvin’s disgust. In contrast, Calvin starts a club (of which he and Hobbes are the only members) that he calls G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS) and, while holding “meetings” in Calvin’s tree house, they usually come up with some plot against Susie. In one instance, Calvin steals one of Susie’s dolls, and Susie nabs Hobbes back. Watterson, the creator, admits that Calvin and Susie have a crush on each other.

 

Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Main_characters

 

 

Find in the text a synonym for the following words:

(a) studious (b) polite (c) to host (d) high-powered (e) to pretend (f) househusband (g) loath

(h) traits (i) mischievous (j) streak (k) to subvert (l) disgust (m) slimy (n) to come up with (o) to nab

 

(   ) a man who stays at home and cleans the house, takes care of the children, etc. while his partner goes out to work

(   ) a strong feeling of disapproval and dislike at a situation

(   ) behaving in a way that is slightly bad but is not intended to cause serious harm or damage

(   ) behaving in a way that is socially correct

(   ) characteristics

(   ) gross

(   ) reluctant

(   ) tendency

(   ) to behave as if something is true when you know that it is not

(   ) to provide the space for a special event

(   ) to take something suddenly

(   ) to think

(   ) to try to destroy

(   ) very careful or paying attention to all details

(   ) very powerful