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#3 "stonewall"
stonewall \STOHN-wawl\, verb:
1. To block, stall, or resist intentionally.
2. In cricket, to play a defensive game, as by persistently blocking the ball instead of batting it for distance and runs.
3. To filibuster.
My Application
“His mouth dried. His heart drummed. His toes recoiled. Kamal mustered all the courage he had and inched towards the girl seated at the far end of the park bench. As his mouth opened to articulate the words he had painstakingly rehearsed, a young man dressed in one of those one-size-too-small tees appeared before her. At this, Kamal’s half-opened mouth evolved into a long tiring yawn, stonewalling the idea altogether.”
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