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Vocabulary
In the making
The following sentences are from a story who 's baby was switched at birth and I am not sure what underlined parts mean exactly. Can you help me?
1. Her concerns were brushed off, but in an unlikely story that was 56 years in the making, her mother's intuition foreshadowed what was to come
2. Though Kay was a brunette in a sea of blonds, no one ever thought to question her paternity
3. Her husband joked about whether the Reedes were her relatives after seeing her at family functions
4. She chalked them up to being ornery she Justified her placement in the Reeds clan by saying her blue eyes came from her father. .
1. Her concerns were brushed off, but in an unlikely story that was 56 years in the making, her mother's intuition foreshadowed what was to come
2. Though Kay was a brunette in a sea of blonds, no one ever thought to question her paternity
3. Her husband joked about whether the Reedes were her relatives after seeing her at family functions
4. She chalked them up to being ornery she Justified her placement in the Reeds clan by saying her blue eyes came from her father. .
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1. a story that was 56 years in the making = a story that started 56 years before. 2.
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- a story that was 56 years in the making = a story that started 56 years before.
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- no one ever thought to question her paternity = No one considered asking her or wondering about who her real father was.
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1. a story that was 56 years in the making = a story that started 56 years before.
2. no one ever thought to question her paternity = No one considered asking her or wondering about who her real father was.
3. at family functions = at family gatherings (picnics, weddings, funerals, Christmas, etc)
4. She chalked them up to being ornery = she
2. no one ever thought to question her paternity = No one considered asking her or wondering about who her real father was.
3. at family functions = at family gatherings (picnics, weddings, funerals, Christmas, etc)
4. She chalked them up to being ornery = she
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