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In line 58, "shrink" most likely means
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- 00:05
Okay Ap england learners and next up short one for
- 00:07
you in line fifty eight Shrink most likely means what
- 00:16
When someone is afraid or disgusted they seem to shrink
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because they recoil You know like kittens when someone they
- 00:22
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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