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Interesting/Challenging words, phrases, and expressions:

"river bottoms", "raw-boned", "making his first run at", ambled, mitts, "wing nut", rube, "the dickens", "cut out" (motion), faze, "dug in her heels", tweaked, nuked, mourning, brace, buckshot, carcass, camphor, Mackinaw, shoehorned, varsity, haunch, tiara, peaked, deigned, lowdown, baffled, chaperone, "sawing logs", gnome, sparse, crevices, settee, "gingerbread porch", teetotal, temperance, threshold, feisty, hermit, "drunk as a skunk", lighting (v), "sewed up", peppered, old biddies, "keep their traps shut", old battle-ax", prejudiced, sky-high. "blow your top", "nip it in the bud", shied, sassy, lingered, "eyes in the back of her head",



Writing:

Write three (short) paragraphs, starting each with one of these three sentence stems:

Phyllis snuck out because...

Phyllis snuck out but...

Phyllis snuck out so...