A Summer Life Glossary

by Gary Soto

A Summer Life Glossary

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Bristling

Short and spikey

Cob

Work-horse

Impetus

Boost, incitement

Phaeton

A kind of vintage vehicle

Trodden

Stomped

Consecrated

Declared as holy

Pertinent

Apposite, suitable

Effeminate

Queeny, posturing

Spectre

Fantom, shadow

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