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| ash1 |
Ash is the soft gray, white, or black powder that is left after something is burned. |
| erupt |
of a volcano, to break open and send out hot melted rock and ash. [1/2 definitions] |
| Lent |
the forty weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter, observed by Christians as a time to fast, pray, and be sorry for having done wrong. |
| volcano |
an opening in the earth's crust through which melted rock, ash, and gases are forced out in an explosion, or the mountain or hill that is created around the opening by the cooling rock. |
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