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(flailed, nothing, strategy, panicky, thrash, screamed, nightmare, suffocating bottom, hung)
I opened my eyes and saw ______but water - water that had a dirty yellow tinge to it. I grew _______ I reached up as if to grab a rope and my hands clutched only at water. I was ________. I tried to yell but no sound came out. Then my eyes and nose came out of the water - but not my mouth. I _______ at the surface of the water, swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they ______ as dead weights, paralysedand rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I ________, but only the water heard me. I had started on the long journey back to the _______of the pool. I struck at the water as I went down, expending my strength as one in a ________ fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the _______ - I would spring from the bottom of the pooi and come like a cork to the surface. I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and ______with my legs.

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Nothing, panicky, suffocating, flailed, hung, screamed, bottom, nightmare, strategy, thrash

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