Reading (Expanding Horizons) discussion

I will try.
He was tall, and oh so skinny, and gawky that he looked like a scarecrow.

The meaning of the paragraph had been interpolated because someone inserted a word in old Greek.

The jury (which I just served on in real life) was given the injunction by the judge not to talk about the case with anyone outside the courtroom.

The detective had a trenchant intellect.

The salesman presented the information on time shares in a mendacious way.

The purse was an ersatz knock off of the real Gucci bag.

Abraham Lincoln was known by the sobriquet "Honest Abe."

Sometimes I fell gawky.