| ADJECTIVE | all | blate, bashful | disposed to avoid notice |
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| VERB | communication | blate, bleat, blat, baa | cry plaintively |
| Meaning | disposed to avoid notice; ('blate' is a Scottish term for bashful). | |
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| Synonym | bashful | |
| Region | Scotland | One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Broader | backward | (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature |
| Spanish | modesto | |
| Catalan | modest | |
| Meaning | cry plaintively. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Model | You can hear animals blate in the meadows; The meadows blate with animals | |
| Synonyms | bleat, blat, baa | |
| Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose | Express audibly |
| Spanish | balar, gimotear | |
| Catalan | begallar, belar | |
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