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Skeleton

/skˈɛlətən/
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(noun) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

There is a skeleton in every closet.
Tom Skeleton was shaking and trembling in every limb.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum display featured a complete ____ of a Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered in Montana.

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