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primly

"'I glide,' said the Earthworm primly." page 31, paragraph 5

The worm crawled primly into the ground.

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Sara, you're right in thinking that trifle is like saying "a little." Can you write a sentence using "trifle" that isn't about getting sick while in a boat?

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trifle

"'Pardon me,' murmured the Ladybug, turning a trifle pale, 'but am I wrong in thinking that we seem to be bobbing up and down?'" page 49, paragraph 8

Being in a boat made me feel a trifle sick.

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Josh, you nailed it. Basements are damp which can make them get mildewy and smelly.

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You got it, Lisa! Spectacles are an old-fashioned way to say glasses. Just like a "spectator" at a ball game sees the game. That root word helps you to know the word has to do with sight.

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mildewed

"The breath smelled musty and stale and slightly mildewed, like air in an old cellar." page 10, paragraph,2

The basement was mildewed and smelly.

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Good sentence, Mark. Empty and desolate are synonyms.

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spectacles

"Aunt Spiker, on the other hand, was lean and tall and bony, and she wore steel-rimmed spectacles that fixed onto the end of her nose with a clip." page 6, paragraph 1

A long time ago, people used to call eye glasses spectacles.

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desolate

"The garden, which covered the whole of the top of the hill, was large and desolate, and the only tree in the entire place (apart from a clump of dirty old laurel bushes at the far end) was an ancient peach tree that never gave any peaches. " page 4, aragraph 3

The empty parking lot was desolate.

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That's it! You've got the picture now. The girl sat carefully and like a lady.

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primly

The girl sat primly on the chair.

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I love the way you used context clues to think of what this means. But remember that Roald Dahl uses personification with his characters in James, so this Earthworm isn't quite the same. Think formal and stiff. Try another sentence. You might try a person as the subject.