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19 Cards in this Set
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gory
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bloody
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spitting image
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to look exactly like someone else
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dangling
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hanging loosely
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glimpse
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to catch a brief, quick view of
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knickers
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short pants
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piped
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uttered in a shrill voice
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slew
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a large amount
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puny
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of inferior size, strength, or importance
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crick
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a painful cramp in the neck or back
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belt
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to hit hard
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wrestled
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to struggle with
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rustle
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to make soft sounds as of moving
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paltry
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almost worthless
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scrawny
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very thin
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devoured
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ate hungrily; took in greedily
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tatters
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torn, ragged clothes
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bum-rush
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rush forward to grab
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ventriloquist
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person who speaks so that the voice sems to come from another source
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Bud, Not Buddy
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Section 3 Vocabulary
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