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flesh
Noun
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Flesh is the meat on an animal or in a fruit.
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Flesh is a person's skin.
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Flesh color is the color of a white person's skin.
flesh
Verb
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To fatten.
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To add details.
The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
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To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
devil
Noun
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A devil is an evil monster, god, or mythological being.
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If you say someone is a poor devil, you mean a poor person.
devil
Proper noun
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The Devil is the enemy or God and all people. The devil is the leader or source of evil.
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If someone is called the Devil it means they are a bad person. Usually this is used playfully and not seriously.