satch • el n., small bag for carrying belongings, especially clothes or books. She stuffed her pajamas, some playing cards, and a few CDs in her satchel and headed over to the slumber party.

PAGE 486

drawl v., speak in a slow way, drawing out the syllables. The young man drawled out his answers in a relaxed and thoughtful way.

scheme v., plan in a deceitful way, plot. They went into their snow fort to scheme up ways to launch their snowball attack.