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 5000 Words Level 4 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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irksome  Speak Example sentences
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[出しゃばる] push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude
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[うんざり] causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation; tedious
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[万力を] tone down in intensity; regulate; change from one key to another
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[なだめる] make peace with; appease and render favorable
juxtaposition  Speak Example sentences
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[瘴気] swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence
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[なだめる] make peace with; appease and render favorable
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[微妙] terminology; system of names used in an art or science
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[並置] act of positioning close together; side-by-side position
layman  Speak Example sentences
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[万力を] tone down in intensity; regulate; change from one key to another
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[素人] someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; generally ignorant person
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[微妙] terminology; system of names used in an art or science
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[悲しげな] mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated degree
licentious  Speak Example sentences
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[素人] someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; generally ignorant person
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[勝手気ままな] amoral; unrestrained; lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint
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[刺激] tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
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[骨化] change or form into bone; become set in a rigidly conventional pattern; change from soft tissue to hard bony tissue
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[小人] extremely small; very small person; trivial or petty
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[役得] any mammal of which the female typically has a pouch in which it rears young, such as kangaroo or koala
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[刺激] tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
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[活性化] give vigor to; give life and energy to; strengthen; animate
mellifluous  Speak Example sentences
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[万力を] tone down in intensity; regulate; change from one key to another
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[甘美] flowing or dropping like honey; sweetly or smoothly flowing, especially in sound
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[当惑] perplex or bewilder someone; confound or flummox
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[和らげる] make less rigid or softer; calm in temper or feeling
meretricious  Speak Example sentences
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[パン種] cause to rise, especially by fermentation; add a rising agent to
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[けばけばしい] of or pertaining to prostitutes; tastelessly showy; lustful; deceptive; misleading
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[瘴気] swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence
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[蛇行] follow a winding and turning course; move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction
mottled  Speak Example sentences
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[斑状] spotted with different shades or colors
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[刺激] tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
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[微妙] terminology; system of names used in an art or science
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[不名誉な] bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous
nascent  Speak Example sentences
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[甘美] flowing or dropping like honey; sweetly or smoothly flowing, especially in sound
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[斑状] spotted with different shades or colors
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[新生] incipient; coming into existence; emerging
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[不透明] impenetrable by light; not transparent; not reflecting light; having no luster
officious  Speak Example sentences
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[おせっかい] marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others
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[descry] make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satisfaction
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[試験監督をする] watch diligently; keep watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating
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[媒染剤] bitingly painful; harshly ironic or sinister; serving to fix colors in dyeing