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Whittle |
To cut small bits off |
Jack had stopped whittling the piece of wood |
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Underlay |
To place something underneath |
The structure had pink squares underlay it |
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Discursive |
Tending to cover a wide range of subjects |
The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter |
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Hiatus |
An interrupting in the intensity or amount to something |
There was a pause, a hiatus. Then the pig screamed |
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tensly |
in a stressed matter |
the assembly, sensing a crisis was tensly expectant |
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snivel |
cry or whine in a snuffle
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Piggy sniveled and Simon hushed him quickly like he was in a church |
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Grass |
Lacking sensitivity |
Grass was worn away in front of each trunk |
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Emboss |
To carve or mold |
in the sand lay eighteen inches of shells with a slight spiral twist with a delicate embossed pattern |
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Dangle |
to hang freely |
A figure that hung with dangling limbs |
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Impalpable |
not visible to the touch |
with a impalpable sense they examined this new field
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