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I contain six letters, minus one and you got twelve. What am I?
I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I lick will soon turn red. What am I?
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I'm as simple as a circle worthless as a leader; but when I follow a group their strength increases tenfold. By myself I'm practically nothing.
I look at you you look at me I raise my right you raise your left.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.