Words

claim
Mum asked one night when she’d got back from her job on the checkout at Khan’s and me and Dad were relaxing after a hard afternoon’s work out at the claim.
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A place with metals owned by someone

wobbling
The noise of a car drove into our ears and a four-wheel-drive police jeep came wobbling down the creamy red track that leads to our claim.
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Shaking

startled
Verb
My dad turned around, startled.
Shocked

figment
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I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings.
The unreal thing

rummaged
Verb
Looking for
He rummaged through piles of rocks

ute
I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan’s face
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Small truck

crackpot
Strange person
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It made you want to be sick all over the place. Lightning Ridge was full of flaming crackpots as far as I could see.

Mello Yello
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Drink
I said,hiding my anger in a swig from my can of Mello Yellow.

Mates
n.
People who work or live with you. “I still say Kellyanne could do with some real-live mates,”

Opal
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A valuable stone. "My dad would come back from the opal mines covered in dust, his beard like the back end of a dog that’s shat all over its tail."

Fairdinkum
 n
. Australian idiom for "Are you sure?". “Fairdinkum?”

Imaginary:
adj.
existing only in your mind or imagination. "but I wasn’t crazy enough to talk to imaginary friends, I’ll tell you that for nothing."

Grub:
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 food. "She said they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub."

Fossilized:
 verb
.Become stone. "There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."

Mammoth:
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 An old animal liked elephant which lived in the ancient time. "There’s rumours going that Lucky Jes has taken out a million-dollar stone and a fossilized mammoth tooth with sun-flash in it."