giant water bug
= water bug

During the summer months, I often have a barbecue with my friends. I first put charcoal in the grill, pour some lighter fluid over the charcoal, and then light the grill with a match. It usually takes a few minutes for the grill to get going, and I d

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The airboat roared like a low-flying plane, whizzing across the sawgrass. It was such a strange boat, Violet thought, as the wind whipped her ponytails straight out behind her. Mr. Osceola sat perched on a high seat, operating the controls just in fr

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学英语单词
accraze
adverb of degree
airport surface detection equipment
albumose-free(tuberculin)
berun
bonded block
box coupling
bt-r
buttonhole stitch
cable stud
cacodyl oxide
Cajun popcorn
carrionere
cauterization therapy
celastrus paniculata willd.
Champlon
collage films
common membranous crus
constant volume specific heat
deficient amount
desiccated thyroid
DIUS
double setting
douche bag
drop guide tube
excited utterance
finga
FMM
formic anhydride
full-arc turbine
fuse-programmable logic device
graham flour
hand nut
hendecagonal
herba lammae
hiromu
hold ... fire
hydroxocomplex
hypomobility
in memorium
intensive capital
Juliette
keeping a sound mind
Kyodong-do
Laportea macrostachya
lesser palatine artery
loss measuring instrument
low-melting point glass
Lyall, Mt.
matrices multiplication
microhaematocrit
micrometeorogram
molluscum verrucosum
mummas
non-propelling
nondegenerate semiconductor
nurse's cloth
pak-ah-pu
palaeographically
paoloes
partial eclipse beginning
Patrick White
plantins
Plaston
polinices pallida
precipitated bismuth
put the nips into
quantum efficiency (quantum yield)
randomizing formula
rawl plugs
ring-doves
rockslide
scalar-return register
schepen
screening sample
seawater lift pump
seborrhoeic dermatitis
silky lacewings
smack calf's skin
soapless detergent
stenelmis formosana
straight line coding
subpanels
Sulcus posterolateralis
sulfur isotopic geochemistry
surface current density
tammanies
tar dermatitis
tea firing
Torsminde
trichaptum abietinum
tunnel surveying
turn ... inside out
turning-points
udder washing douche
ultraprecision manufacture
velar sound
verbascum nigrum l.
visible horizons
waste heat removal system
Westmark
wubangziside