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Preview Vocabulary It is probable that the legend Create a word web of synonyms for these words from the story: of the crocodile and the plover bird was originally brought big (enormous, massive, gigantic) to Liberia in the 13th or 14th bad (fearsome, unbearable, horrible) century AD by Islamic settlers.