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(strategy, irresistible, thrash, nightmare, throbbed, struck, expending, surface)
I _____________________ at the water as I went down, _____________________ my strength as one in a _____________________ fights an _____________________ force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head _____________________I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the _____________________ -I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the _____________________I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and _____________________ with my legs.


Answer

1. struck
2. expending
3. nightmare
4. Irresistible
5. throbbed
6. strategy
7. surface
8. thrash

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