1) What does "to work on their temper" mean?
‘Not sure, but whoever they are, they’ve got to work on their temper as well. See how deep their instep goes.’
2) What does the word "allegiance" mean?
Maw had rolled her eyes in rare allegiance with the boy
3) What does "barrel-round" mean?
Its belly is freckled, barrel-round and still hot under his hand
3) What does "searched about" mean?
My mind searched about for a moment
4) What does "slipped" mean?
“All part of the job.” I tilted my face to match. That’s when she slipped. Dammit.
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Hello!
In more detail:
1) What does "to work on their temper" mean?
It means
control an anger, to stay calm in difficult situations
2)What does the word "allegiance" mean?
It means loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like
3) What does "barrel-round" mean?
Someone whos stomach is very round and sticks out from drinking a lot of beer over the years, but is very hard and looks like the side of a keg of beer, due to hard work mostly construction work.
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1) work on controlling their temper
2) loyalty
3) round like a barrel
4) based on the sentence you provided I'd guess this phrase means to search for some information inside your mind
5) lots of meanings but 'slip' in the sentence above most probably means that girl failed to keep up with that other guy - he or she tilted their face to match but that girl just failed to keep it up
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