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In line 58, "shrink" most likely means


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Okay Ap england learners and next up short one for

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you in line fifty eight Shrink most likely means what

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When someone is afraid or disgusted they seem to shrink

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because they recoil You know like kittens when someone they

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don't know tried to pick him up or well refers

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to us around literally any flying insect What we squeaking

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back away making ourselves that tinier as we curl into

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a ball that shrink And that's what this author wanted

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to dio when she saw all the intense racism around

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her Well the author of that quote definitely felt fear

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and worry So that's a either and probably wanted to

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flee d either But that's not what the use of

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shrink means It does sometimes mean contract like sea there

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but it wouldn't make sense for the author to literally

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shrink in size So the answer here is be recoil 00:00:54.684 --> [endTime] or coil and then coil again

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