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Today's OneWord: Racket

ā€œWhat,ā€ roared my father, ā€œis the meaning of all this racket?ā€ He was heaving and wheezing in the doorway, his ample frame squished against the frame, as my sister and I sheepishly looked up from where we kneeled on the floor. I still firmly gripped the baseball bat, while my sister wielded the plastic sword and dagger that our mother had bought for her from the costume store. ā€œThe monster came back,ā€ I tried to explain. ā€œWhat monster?ā€ barked my father. ā€œThe big green one.ā€