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Harry Potter Flashcards

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Trolled turned it’s ugly snout toward Ron

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muzzle (ˈmʌzl), face of an animal (snaʊt)

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He was tired and crotchety

crotchety uncle

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easily annoyed, irritable, testy, grumpy, surly (ˈsɜːrli), crusty (ˈkrʌsti), ornery (ˈɔːrnəri), grouchy (ˈɡraʊtʃi), peevish (ˈpiːvɪʃ), cranky (ˈkræŋki) (ˈkrɑːtʃəti) (often about older people)

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golden poles with hoops on the end
The barrel was bound with three iron hoops
people wear hoops around their wrists as bracelets
You have to jump through so many hoops to get this job

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a large ring of plastic, wood or iron, band, circle; to do something difficult or complicated (huːp)

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I’d better scoot or I’ll be late

They scooted off to Dublin for the weekend

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dash (dæʃ), pelt (pelt), scurry (ˈskɜːri), scuttle (ˈskʌtl), scramble, bolt, dart (skuːt)

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grubby little package

grubby-looking pub

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dirty, grimy (ˈɡraɪmi), sooty, sordid (ˈsɔːrdɪd), squalid (ˈskwɑːlɪd), scruffy (ˈskrʌfi), shabby (ˈʃæbi), unkempt (ˌʌnˈkempt), slovenly (ˈslʌvnli) (ˈɡrʌbi)

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The aircraft swooped down over the buildings
Hedwig swooping in and out of the open window
Police swooped on several houses last night looking for drugs

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(bird/plane) move downward quickly and dramatically, dive, sweep, plummet, nosedive;
(police/soldiers) carry out a sudden attack/visit,
raid, assault, assail (əˈseɪl) (swuːp)

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He turned to smile at the tabby cat

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a cat with brown or grey fur with stripes (ˈtæbi)

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his nose was very long and crooked

All the officials are crooked

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bent, twisted; criminal, dishonest, nefarious (nɪˈferiəs), unscrupulous (ʌnˈskruːpjələs), venal (ˈviːnl) (ˈkrʊkɪd)

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a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
squalid living conditions
It was a squalid affair involving prostitutes and drugs

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dirty, grubby (ˈɡrʌbi), grimy (ˈɡraɪmi), sooty, sordid (ˈsɔːrdɪd), scruffy (ˈskrʌfi), shabby (ˈʃæbi), unkempt (ˌʌnˈkempt), slovenly (ˈslʌvnli); involving low moral standards, morally degraded, sordid (ˈsɔːrdɪd) (ˈskwɑːlɪd)

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a witch’s cauldron

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kettle, pot, котёл (ˈkɔːldrən)

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There’s a parcel and some letters for you

She was carrying a parcel of books under her arm

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package, packet, bundle (ˈpɑːrsl)

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The spider was found hiding in a crate of bananas

He opened the crate

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chest (tʃest), coffer (ˈkɔːfər), trunk, a large wooden container (kreɪt)

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into the small chest on his table

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a large strong box with a lid, crate (kreɪt), coffer (ˈkɔːfər), trunk

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See, most kings only care about their cocks and their coffers
The nation’s coffers are empty.

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a strongbox or small chest for holding valuables, crate (kreɪt), trunk; funds, reserves, wherewithal (werwɪðɔːl) (ˈkɔːfər)

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The owl held newspaper in its beak

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клюв (biːk)

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Hagrid sidled through the door

as Dumbledore sidled back into the picture

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walk in a casual, quiet, and a little sneaky way, creep, sneak, slink, skulk, prowl (prowl) (ˈsaɪdl)

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Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair

The baby dragon flopped onto the table

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collapse, slump, crumple (ˈkrʌmpl), plop (plɑːp) (flɑːp)

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arm flopping uselessly on his shoulder
Her hair flopped over her eyes
The fish were flopping around in the bottom of the boat

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move; fall/hang loosely/limply, dangle, droop, sag (flɑːp)

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ruddy face

ruddy light illuminating

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looking red and healthy; reddish (ˈrʌdi)

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and sallow skin

He was a small man with a thin sallow face

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pale, unhealthy yellow (ˈsæləʊ)

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Mr. Ollivander was flitting around the shelves

And you, you flit about like a tornado, wreaking havoc, and for what?

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move swiftly and lightly, dart, dash, scoot (flɪt)

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her slim, supple body

These exercises will help to keep you supple

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flexible, lithe (laɪð), limber (limber), nimble (ˈnɪmbl), willowy (ˈwɪləʊi), pliable (ˈplaɪəbl), malleable (ˈmæliəbl) (ˈsʌpl)

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He’d screamed, whacked his father with his stick

She whacked him with her handbag

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pummel (ˈpʌml), thrash (θræʃ), beat, clout (klaʊt), damage (ˈbætər) strike repeatedly with hard blows (wæk)

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The system is clearly out of whack

All the traveling had thrown my body out of whack

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no longer correct or working properly, defective, faulty (wæk)

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Seekers are always the ones who get clobbered by the other team

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pummel (ˈpʌml), thrash (θræʃ), beat, whack (wæk), clout (klaʊt), batter (ˈbætər) (ˈklɑːbər)

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He opened the crate

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a large wooden container for transporting goods, chest, coffer (ˈkɔːfər), trunk, box (kreɪt)

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rich gravy and cranberry sauce

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соус, подливка, a brown sauce made by adding flour to the juices that come out of meat while it is cooking (ˈɡreɪvi)

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humming merrily as he stoked the fire

to stoke up a fire with more coal

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to add fuel to a fire (stəʊk)

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Have you peeled the potatoes?
The wallpaper was beginning to peel
Peeling gold letters

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remove the outer covering or skin, strip, shave, trim, flay

come off in layers/strips, blister (piːl)

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clouds scudded across the darkling sky

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move quickly because wind, dart, scurry (ˈskɜːri), scoot (skʌd)

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he took both Harry and Dudley by the scruffs of their necks

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the back side of the neck, nape (skrʌf)

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A wizened old guard

He turned his wizened head

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shrivelled and wrinkled with age, creased (kriːst), withered (ˈwɪznd)

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Peeves cackled.

high voice cackled with laughter

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laugh in a loud, harsh way (ˈkækl)

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riffraff like the Weasleys

Not this riffraff

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disreputable or undesirable people, rabble, scum, the dregs of society
Opposite: elite
(ˈrɪf ræf)

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The kids can always wheedle money out of their father.
She wheedled me into lending her my new coat.
«Just a bit of toast,» wheedled Hermione.

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coax (kəʊks), cajole (kəˈdʒəʊl), beguile (bɪˈɡaɪl), flatter (ˈwiːdl)

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He handed Harry a small club.

huge wooden club.

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cudgel (ˈkʌdʒl), mace, bat

37
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bird out on the windowsill

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подоконник (ˈwɪndəʊsɪl)

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He’s doing something—jinxing the broom

I know a jinx when I see one, Hagrid,

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bad luck, curse, spell, hex (dʒɪŋks)

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mantelpiece

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a shelf above a fireplace (ˈmæntlpiːs)

40
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a long quill, and a roll of parchment

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пергамент (ˈpɑːrtʃmənt)

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These shoes have given me blisters on my heels.

the skin of his face burned and blistered

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волдырь (ˈblɪstər)

42
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«You could have woken me up,» said Ron, crossly

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bitterly, indignantly, furiously (ˈkrɔːsli)

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He goggled at me

poor boy isn’t something you goggle at in a zoo

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stare, gawk (ɡɔːk), gaze
Opposite: glance
(ˈɡɑːɡl)

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They hadn’t realized what a racket they had been making,

It made a gods-awful amount of racket,

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din, a loud, unpleasant noise, uproar, clamor, commotion, ruckus
Opposite
silence (ˈrækɪt/)

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A few embers were still glowing in the fireplace

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smoldering coal (ˈembər)

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He swigged down his beer and burped loudly.

“That was the one I burped slugs all over.

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expel gas from the stomach, belch (bɜːrp)

47
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moth-eaten sofa

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butterfly, моль (mɔːθ)

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workman’s shed,

Muggle rubbish in your shed!

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a small storage building, hut, shack (ʃæk), hovel (ˈhʌvl) (ʃed)

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She was still gloating over her rival’s disappointment.

He didn’t want to hear her gloating at his misfortune.

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delight in, relish, revel in, boast about, dwell on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness, злорадствовать
Opposite: sympathize
(ɡləʊt)

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Hilo’s lips rose in the lopsided smile
lopsided sign stuck in the ground near the entrance
The article presents a somewhat lopsided view of events.

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asymmetrical, uneven, off-balance, askew, tilted, crooked, slanted
Opposite: even, balanced
(ˌlɑːpˈsaɪdɪd)

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a jaunty smile

a hat set at a jaunty angle

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cheerful, jolly, blithe (blaɪð), carefree, nonchalant
Opposite: depressed, serious
(ˈdʒɔːnti)

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a doddering old fool

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feeble, frail, decrepit, senile (ˈsiːnaɪl)
faltering, staggering, quivering
Opposite: spry
mentally or physically infirm with age
(ˈdɑːdərɪŋ)
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Fred twiddled the steering wheel.
She was twiddling the ring on her finger.
He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview

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  1. turn, swirl, twirl, whirl, twist, swivel
  2. play with, fiddle with nervously
    (ˈtwɪdl)
54
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glistening, scabbed hand

scabby knees

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covered with scabs, покрытый струпьями

ˈskæbi

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kept Harry as downtrodden as possible,

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oppressed, subjugated, abused, exploited (ˈdaʊntrɑːdn)

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He suffered from headaches and fainting fits
a fit of coughing
to act in a fit of anger

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  1. a sudden attack of an illness, convulsion, spasm
  2. outburst, bout
  3. tantrum (ˈtæntrəm), frenzy, state
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not nor clairvoyant am I

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forecaster of the future, prophet, soothsayer

klerˈvɔɪənt

58
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to a small paddock the Weasleys owned.

found themselves outside a kind of paddock.

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a small field in which horses are kept, meadow (ˈmedəʊ), pasture
(ˈpædək)

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made of willow

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ива (ˈwɪlə)

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We skimmed across the water in a small sailing boat.
We watched the birds skimming over the lake.
His eyes skimmed over her face.

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move quickly and lightly over a surface, glide, slide, scud (skʌd)

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dropped to the ground with a heavy jolt.
The plane landed with a jolt.
My mother’s death gave me a severe jolt.

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abrupt, rough movement, bump, jerk, lurch, jounce
an unpleasant surprise or shock, fright
(dʒəʊ)

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straight twigs

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a small, very thin branch that grows out of a larger branch

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as though he’d just been walloped in the stomach by one of the mad tree’s larger branches.
I remember Mum walloping him with her broomstick.”

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strike or hit very hard, batter (ˈbæt), smack, pummel (ˈpʌml), clobber (ˈklɑːbə), clout (klaʊ), whack (wæk) (ˈwɑːləp)

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Loial nodded sagely,

said Ron sagely.

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in a very wise way (ˈseɪdʒli)

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blotted out the center of her vision,
Clouds blotted out the sun.
He tried to blot out the image of Helen’s sad face.

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to cover or hide something completely, conceal
obliterate, expunge, ​to deliberately try to forget an unpleasant memory or thought
(blɑːt)

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looking suddenly quite deranged.
Black is deranged,
fated to die young and deranged.

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insane, mad
Opposite: sane
(dɪˈreɪndʒd)

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skimming through books

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look through cursorily, read quickly, glance through, scan

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how to skim a little for himself.

She’d been skimming money from the store’s accounts for years.

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steal

69
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kept blotting his Charms homework.

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smudge, smear (smɪr), blotch (blɑːtʃ), taint, mar (blɑːt)

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dropped a blot onto the first page of the diary.

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spot, dot, mark, speck, fleck, blotch (blɑːtʃ), smudge, splodge (splɑːdʒ)
(blɑːt)

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