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The Brainy Echidna Decoding Vocabulary

If you wanted to push yourself to the outermost chalk line of human endurance, you might consider an ultramarathon, or a solo row across the Atlantic Ocean… Part of Speech Clues Context

The long-beaked echidna is a genuine living link between reptiles and birds on one branch, and more familiar placental mammals like ourselves on the next. Part of Speech Word Clues Context

Then he discovered if he followed trails of nose pokes – the holes echidnas made with their beaks as they foraged for earthworms – he could find a den. Part of Speech Word Clues Context

NOW YOU TRY O REMEMBER… O Part of Speech (Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb) O Word Clues (Prefix, Suffix, Root) O Context (What’s the situation around the word?)