Read the passage below. Using your accuracy strategies, define the underlined word. It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior.

resilient: (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.

piston: a disk or short cylinder fitting closely within a tube in which it moves up and down against a liquid or gas, used in an internal combustion engine to derive motion, or in a pump to impart motion.

gliding: the sport of flying in a glider.

poised: having a composed and self-assured manner.

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