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"Where are you going Charming Billy?"
Vocabulary exercise for the story
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| A | B |
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| a row of bushes | hedgerow |
| a grassy field | meadow |
| a wetland where rice grows | paddy |
| making oneself invisible | stealth |
| very, very tired | exhausted |
| making believe in one's mind | pretending |
| a river in Iowa | DesMoines |
| coming out | emerging |
| dark shapes with light backgrounds | silhouetted |
| reaching for in the dark | groping |
| green slime from water | algae |
| fertilizer | manure |
| a chemical from green plants | chlorophyll |
| rotten, dead matter | decay |
| water worms that suck blood | leeches |
| like sewage | fecund |
| a constellation | Southern Cross |
| levels of something | degrees |
| unusual | peculiar |
| spread out | diffuse |
| parts of a gun | breech and muzzle |
| went around, not through | skirted |
| shaped like a cone | conical |
| dead | inert |
| able to move easily and quickly | agile |
| unfriendly | hostile |
| matter keeps moving or resting | inertia |
| bravely | valiantly |
| giving in to | succumbing |
| hold back like crying | stifle |
| performed a task | executed |
| with grace and class | elegantly |
| tenderly and carefully | delicately |
| feeling around for with a tool | probing |
| covered with or choked back | smothered |
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