marmot
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stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in wintertype of:knaagdierrelatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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This first book of His Dark Materials trilogy starts off at Oxford's Jordan College, where eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon are given a device called an alethiometer that Lyra learns to interpret in order to discover truths, especially in connection to the kidnapping of children.
Stories about chubby marmots, a cantankerous donkey, and revelations about narwhal tusks all contributed words to this list of vocabulary from the week's news.
Seventh grader Gabriel Meyer wanted to impress his friends, while a coyote named Rill wanted to be free from the responsibilities of her pack, but both end up dealing with the consequences of a destructive fire in a Vermont park.