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Rikki-tikki-tavi

Rikki-tikki-tavi. Rudyard Kipling. r evive. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of g arden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying “Here’s a dead mongoose. brought back to life. immense.

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Rikki-tikki-tavi

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  1. Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling

  2. revive • When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying “Here’s a dead mongoose. • brought back to life

  3. immense • Rikki-tikkiliked it immensely; and when it was finished, he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. • largely or greatly

  4. sorrowful • …he rushed up and down the garden, sniffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thornbush. • sad, inadequate, or pathetic

  5. cower • Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss. • to crouch down in fear or shame

  6. stoop • But just as Teddy was stooping, something wriggled a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said; “Be careful.” • to bend the head and shoulders forward and even the rest of the body generally forward

  7. gait It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can leap off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage. • a way of walking

  8. cowardly • “I am very cowardly,” he sobbed. “I don’t have enough courage to run out into the middle of the room H’sh!” • lacking courage

  9. consolation • “Well! It may be some consolation to you when you’re dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy.” • relief or support

  10. valiant • “The valiant Rikki-tikki-tavi caught him by the head and held fast.” • brave

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