Goofing Around ABC

This is something I cooked up in High School, it seems.  Another chapter from that project I made.   As I go through the word meanings I thought up, I have to admit, I was a bit weird.

ALARM -- the way you feel when 5 minutes before you leave home, you find out you forgot to do one of your homework

BELL -- something you'd like to hear if your teacher is giving a long lecture

CHRISTMAS -- time you find out how another person feels about you by the gifts you receive

DISMISSAL -- favorite 'subject' after recess and lunch

END -- the most awaited part of a lousy movie

FAINT -- the way you feel after smelling ammonia water

GARBAGE -- something your test papers become after the schoolyear

HOLLER -- something presidents wish they didn't have to do so often

INCREASE -- what students want to happen to the stipends

JUNGLE -- a possible description of the rooms of interns and externs after inspection

KIND -- the adjective associated to teachers when they are about to give tests

LOCKS -- objects you would like to have when there is a picture of someone you secretly admire in your drawer

MESS CALL -- the only order given which is heard as clear as a bell

NOTEBOOKS -- last things in the world you'd like to see after your finals

OVERJOYED -- the way you feel when you find out there is an advertisement in the last page of your current events paper instead of another news item

PENKNIFE -- something used while questioning a person when the best results are desired

QUESTIONS -- something you use to delay a test

RAIN -- the last thing most welcomed by a lazy gardener

SMOKE -- something you don't like to smell after you've tried to build a fire when the wind changed direction

TARGET -- something someone becomes after this person insults you

UNIFORM -- a sign of forgetfulness if worn on Wednesdays

VISIT -- an action some dormers wish their parents did more often

WASTEBASKETS -- places where failing papers go

XYLOPHONE -- one of the more famous 'x' words along with x-ray

YAWN -- what lots of people do during a boring subject

ZIPPER -- something that has a set of teeth which when one falls off does not grow a permanent one