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Definition
to call — typically to ask or tell someone to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod of the head
- Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year's first snow began to fall.3 — Answer (**% in)
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