English

Julianne Ortega

1 August, 16:00

Read the passage below. Using your accuracy strategies, define the underlined word. 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. a. flexible c. large b. strong d. clumsy