Jitterbug can be the dance or a person.
Noun: a jazz variation…in which couples swing, balance, and twirl in standardized patterns and often with vigorous acrobatics
or a person who dances the jitterbug
Verb: to dance the jitterbug
Jitterbug dancers have a lot of rapid, jerky movement, as if they have the jitters. The word jitters is always plural.
Noun: a sense of panic or extreme nervousness (from Merriam-Webster online dictionary)
“He gets the jitters when he has to recite out loud in class.”
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Willie and Millie help each other with school jitters.
“I have a _______ report due next week, and I’m so nervous,” Willie said. “I have to report out loud and I _______ and can hardly talk.”
“I get ________, too,” Millie admitted, “but I don’t think I shake.”
“My mom said I should practice out loud at home, so I can _____ myself. She times me and I always take longer than I’m supposed to.”
“How much time do you have to give the report?”
“_______ minutes.”
“When you’re ready, I’ll come over to your house and be your ___________. My aunt has to present a lot of business stuff at her job. Sometimes she has _______ people in her audience.”
“Yikes! That would kill me. It’s bad enough to have twenty other kids in my audience all staring at me. That’s ________ eyeballs looking at me.”
“My aunt says one of the ways she stays ________ in front of that many people is she looks at one person at a time and makes ______ contact with that person. It calms her down instead of looking at a whole _____ full of people.”
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