code book
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Frantically, Jonah angled the mirror, turning his tax code book almost sideways.
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They believed that these numbers could be related to a Chinese code book.
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Simple codes like this are easy to remember, but anything complicated will need a code book, which can be hard to lug around.
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For example, if the word “attic” isn’t in your code book, you can’t say, “Hide the money in the attic.”
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But it seemed like maybe Mom had given Emma the first code book; it seemed like Mom might have said something like, “Sometimes kids who like math also like codes.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.