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Things slate often describes ("slate ________")
- tiles
- color
- sky
- granules
- deposits
- grey
- work
- paper
- series
- approach
- coal
- powder
- flooring
- coloured
- makers
- beds
- creek
- size
- quartz
- writers
- board
- magazine
- boards
- club
- picker
- colour
- granite
- waste
- conglomerate
- elections
- pencils
- brown
- knives
- strata
- blue
- serpentine
- clay
- eyes
- pigmentation
- house
- limestone
- shingles
- mines
- writing
- dust
- stone
- mining
- floors
- tile
- floor
- pencil
- bedrock
- palettes
- roofs
- black
- rock
- roofing
- stones
- suit
- gneiss
- belt
- quarry
- hanging
- formation
- rocks
- sandstone
- quarries
- making
- quarrying
- slabs
- schist
- frame
- discoloration
- candidates
- roof
- blackboards
- writer
- cutter
- industry
- formations
- hills
- colored
- cleavage
- availability
- fragments
- clouds
- flour
- gray
- pickers
- tuition
- mountains
- cisterns
How slate often is described ("________ slate")
- empty
- light
- broken
- argillaceous
- red
- top
- grained
- single
- solid
- joint
- blank
- entire
- wooden
- primitive
- loose
- dull
- clean
- official
- hard
- clear
- polished
- blackish
- democratic
- compact
- talcose
- fresh
- ordinary
- silicified
- black
- mica
- hornblende
- magic
- pale
- chloritic
- gray
- ferruginous
- graphitic
- full
- bituminous
- brown
- smooth
- green
- electoral
- thin
- greenish
- brownish
- sandy
- micaceous
- flinty
- calcareous
- purple
- welsh
- fine
- republican
- siliceous
- independent
- wet
- coarse
- carbonaceous
- blue
- metamorphic
- dark
- grey
- soft
- silicious
- bluish
- banded
