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chameleon
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  • "Or maybe it can disguise itself — pretend to be a suit of armor or something — I've read about Chameleon Ghouls —"  (source)
    Chameleon = able to change appearance
  • She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.  (source)
    chameleon = someone who changes appearance
  • "It's a chameleon," Lex said.†  (source)
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  • I fell asleep, my mind lit up by the chameleon-like flickering of the dying dorado.†  (source)
  • Along the way they stopped to look at snakes, bullfrogs, chameleons, raccoons, opossums, turtles, ducks, herons, two bald eagles, an otter, and (by Roy's count) nineteen alligators.†  (source)
  • And you aren't chameleoning in front of me.†  (source)
  • Besides being slimy and cold-blooded, Captain Sham resembled the chameleon in that he was chameleonic, a word which means "able to blend in with any situation."†  (source)
  • My sister, chameleonlike, would change her voice or hair overnight to match the mannerisms of whoever was next.†  (source)
  • How many other roles in my life had this chameleon played?†  (source)
  • When Deo wasn't carrying food, he was herding cows with his grandfather, sleeping on beds of banana leaves under the stars, wary of the dangerous snakes — cobras and mambas, adders, vipers, and asps — and frightened routinely by the harmless chameleons camouflaged in the leaves, which at first touch felt like snakes.†  (source)
  • The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.†  (source)
  • A number of the experiments were destroyed because they were too dangerous to have around — who needed a cane toad with a prehensile tail like a chameleon's that might climb in through the bathroom window and blind you while you were brushing your teeth?†  (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in public-knock-kneed, droopstockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong.†  (source)
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