National Geographic Explorer
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| Loser | tintinnabulation | Maybe you can spell tintinnabulation. |
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| Loser | represents | Zinkoff is representing his 1st grade class. |
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| Loser | maneuver | she is glad that this maneuver works. |
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delta | Lions are fierce predators of delta. |
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| Loser | hoagie | Hoagie town ten miles away. |
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| Loser | Hazardous | It is hazardous out side. |
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| Loser | constraints | It has no constraints outside. |
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| Loser | Intend | I intend you come home at 8'Oclock. |
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| Loser | agape | They sto od there whith agape. |
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| Loser | hitch | He can't hitch a ride on a pencil. |
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| Loser | atrocious | Your writing is atrocious. |
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| Loser | shambles | The Z boy is a shambles. |
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| Loser | shudders | She shudders to think what will happen next. |
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| Loser | brightens | He brightens again. |
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| Loser | hesitate | He doesn't hesitate a snickerdoodle. |
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| Loser | miraculously | Finally, miraculously, the cookie gets baked. |
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| Loser | haphazard | Soccer is Zinkoffs kind of game, as a haphazard and slapdash as himself. |
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| Samuel's choice | gash | She tied a petticoat around a inbloody gash in his leg. |
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| Samuel's choice | embroidered | Sana read the names of the colonies embroidered on there banners. |
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| Swim with sharks | lagoon | Baby lemon sharks swim into the nearby lagoon and nip at the surface. |
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| Swim with sharks | cartilage | You see, their fins are made of cartilage |
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| Swim with sharks | extinction | one in four is facing extinction. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Mincemeat | This time the British navy in back of him would make mincemeat out of them. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Tory | He's a tory, he talks like a tory to. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Threatened | Since Purdy first threatened me, and Birdsall began to ride. |
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| Sarah bishop | pamphlet | Father noticed the pamphlet to. |
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| Sarah Bishop | revolution | It is not a revolution, he said its a cival war, a war among people who used to be friends. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Religious | I'd had a lot of religious instruction from the bible since the time I was old enough to listen, so this was more to help me to speak and write properly, now that I was not going to school anymore. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Bayonet | He called two orderlies, one of them a tall Hessian with a blackened face and a heavy musket fixed with a two-edged bayonet. |
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| Sarah Bishop | Suspicious | ||
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