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Read the passage below. Discuss what strategies you used to determine the meaning of the underlined words.

It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a tone of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangles out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head it self, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight. It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons.

These words are all surrounded by synonyms( word that mean about the same). Sinse resilient is surrounded by other descriptive words you can makeout that the meaning of resilient is strong and withstanding. To find the meaning of piston youo can see how the describing words show that it is like a joint on the creature. Gliding can be seen in the sentece as an verb therefore we know it is a motion of some kind and the fact that ballet s after it it makes me think that it is a more elegant and airy motion. Poised this word coupled with the words around it show that it is an elegant look like a ballet dancer or a elegant ladylike behavior.

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