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Z Vocabulary Page

retool: to rework, remake.

example:  The coal-firing electricity plants must retool so that they will not pollute the air.

outcast: a person who is not wanted or accepted.

example:  I feel like an outcast when they are selecting team members for the baseball team, but when a team wants to win a spelling bee, I'm always the first one picked.

zany: to be wildly funny in an unusual way.

example: The clowns acted zany as thirty of them climbed out of a tiny automobile.