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| a small, narrow strip that has been cut or torn off something.
| shreds of paper
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| shriek
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| to cry out in a high-pitched voice because you are excited or afraid.
| He shrieked when he saw the mouse.
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| shrink
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| to become smaller.
| His sweater had shrunk in the wash.
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| shrivel
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| to become small and wrinkled, or dry out.
| Water your plants or they will shrivel and die.
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| shrub
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| a large plant that is smaller than a tree, often with many stems and little or no trunk.
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| shrug
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| to raise your shoulders to show that you do not care or do not know.
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| shudder
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| to shake or tremble violently for a short time.
| The thought of spiders makes me shudder.
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| shuffle
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| to mix things up to change their order.
| He shuffled the cards.
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| shut
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| to close something.
| He shut the book carefully.
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| shutter
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| a hard cover for a window.
| The house has shutters on every window.
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| shy
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| timid and lacking confidence with people.
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| sick
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| ill, or not healthy
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| side
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| the edge of something.
| Triangles have three sides
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| sideways
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| toward the side or from the side.
| Crabs walk sideways.
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| siege
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| the action of surrounding a place to try to force the people inside to surrender.
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| sieve
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| a container made of plastic or metal that has mesh or small holes for sorting solids from liquids, or fine grains from larger pieces.
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| sift
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| to sort through something carefully in order to separate larger pieces from smaller pieces.
| Sifting for gold.
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| sigh
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| to let out a long, deep breath slowly.
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| sight
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| the ability to see.
| She lost her sight in an accident.
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| sign
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| to write your signature.
| The boy signed his friend’s cast.
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| sign
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| a symbol that represents something
| The sign for dollar is “$.”
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| signal
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| an action or object that is used to send a message without words.
| He put his right arm out as a signal that he wanted to turn right.
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| signature
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| your special way of writing your own name.
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| significant
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| very important, or having a special meaning.
| A significant event.
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| Sikh
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| a person who follows Sikhism, an Indian religion.
| Sikhs believe in a single God.
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| silent
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| not making any sound.
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| silhouette
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| a dark outline of something seen against a pale background.
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| silk
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| a thin, soft fabric made from threads spun by a silkworm.
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| silly
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| not sensible.
| What a silly idea!
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| silver
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| a precious metal found in the ground that is used in making coins and jewelry
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