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Too Much TURKY

1. A tupelo (TO-puh-lo or TYOO-puh-lo) is a kind of:
   tree
   plea
   dome on a house
   African mouse

2. Ungulates (uhng-you-lits or -lates):
   are messy, never neat
   have hooves on all their feet
   use opposable thumbs
   like beating on drums

3. A recalcitrant (re-CAL-suh-trunt) child is:
   toothless
   unruly
   intelligent
   shy

4. You’d most likely find a kegler (KEG-lur):
   drinking beer and throwing darts
   selling pre-used auto parts
   in a bowling alley
   in an Alpine valley

5. To Spanish-speaking people, the letter we know as Y (wye) is called:
   an old man’s crutch
   the magic touch
   a forked-tongue lie
   a Greek “i”

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