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If one should come too close to earth The atmosphere will shake, With shock wave reaching to the ground Causing the land to quake.

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If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.

Pick out the rhyming words.

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Solution

Shake and quake are the rhyming words.

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Chapter 6.2: The Comet - Exercise [Page 167]

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Chapter 6.2 The Comet
Exercise | Q D. 1. | Page 167

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