Consider the following sentence:
"In Chicago I got a serious case of bronchial pneumonia and while I was RECUPERATING one of our neighbors brought me several of his son’s lead soldiers."
In this context, does the verb 'recuperate' mean 'to recover'?
And is that a more formal word than 'to recover'?
Yes, to both questions.
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