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The Great Kapok Tree
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| emerges | comes out, breaks through |
| wondrous | wonderful, marvelous |
| smoldering | burning and smoking with little or no flame |
| troupe | a group of traveling performers |
| canopy | the tops of the trees in the rainforest |
| pollen | fine powder from flowers |
| generations | groups born in different time periods; steps in the history of a family |
| ancestors | people from which one is descended |
| understory | the bottom of the rainforest |
| underbrush | small trees or bushes that grow thickly under large trees |