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clay
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- pronunciation:
- kleI
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noun |
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Clay is wet earth that gets hard when you bake it in a hot oven. Clay is used for making things like bowls, pots, and bricks. When clay is soft and wet, it is easy to press it into whatever shape you want, but after you bake it, you can't change it.
At school today, we made dinosaurs out of clay. After mine is baked, I'm going to paint it purple.
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| related words: |
dirt, earth, ground |
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| derivations: |
clayey (adj.), clayish (adj.) |
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