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Stray

/strˈeɪ/
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(noun) Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.

He is, as it were, a stray sheep.
The stray girl sobbed her name.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The kind family took in a ____ cat that had been wandering around the neighborhood for several weeks.

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