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| Arctic Ocean |
The Arctic Ocean is one of the five oceans of the world. An ocean is a large body of salt water that covers a very large part of the earth. The Arctic Ocean is in the most northern part of the world and it is very cold and icy. If you look at a map, it is above Canada, Russia, and other far northern countries of the world. |
| coarse |
If something is coarse, it is rough instead of smooth, or it is made up of somewhat large bits instead of tiny, fine bits. Salt, for example, can be coarse or fine. The salt you eat on your food is pretty fine, but salt that they use on icy roads in the winter is much more coarse. [1/2 definitions] |
| hail2 |
to fall or pour down in icy rain. [1/4 definitions] |
| icy |
Ice is water that is frozen. When something is icy, it is covered with ice, or it contains ice or is made of ice. [2 definitions] |
| sand |
When icy roads are sanded, they are covered with sand or something like sand. Sanding the roads makes them safer for driving. [1/3 definitions] |
| Saturn |
the second largest planet in the solar system and sixth in distance from the sun. Saturn is known for the icy rings that circle its middle. [1/2 definitions] |
| simply |
If someone is not sick, but simply tired, it means that they are only tired. If something is simply wet, it is only wet and not anything else. It's not dirty or slippery or icy, for example. [1/4 definitions] |
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