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प्रश्न
Find words from the poem that convey the following ideas:
- connected together
- spread over the surface of the ground in a straggling manner
- make out or understand
- slender woody shoots growing from branches or stems of trees
उत्तर
- blended
- tailed
- reason
- twigs
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