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 5000 Words Level 1 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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[اشته] ask with earnestness or importunity; ask with submission or humility; beg
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[المذبح] raised structure on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity
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[المحتال] bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure
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[حليف] confederate; partner; collaborator
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[القفص] harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap
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[حليف] confederate; partner; collaborator
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[كانيون] narrow chasm with cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge
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[الساحة] a playing field where sports events take place; a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
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[العلية] story or room directly below the roof of a building, especially a house
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[سخيفة] preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish
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[تهزم] whip; strike; defeat; hit repeatedly
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[حجيرة] sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory; small compartment, as for work or study
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[الهمجي] like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; merciless
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[ضمان] promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence; freedom from doubt
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[لاول مرة] beginning or first attempt; first appearance before the public
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[جسدي عائب] small waterfall; sudden downpour
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[كانيون] narrow chasm with cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge
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[مقنعة] overpowering; drivingly forceful; urgently requiring attention
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[كهف] cave; large underground chamber, as in a cave
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[إذن] act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant
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[الكوارث] catastrophe; great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
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[شيفرون] badge consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, worn on the sleeve of military or police uniform to indicate rank
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[كارثية] extremely bad; terrible; dreadful
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[الهمجي] like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; merciless
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[الكوارث] catastrophe; great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
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[إشرع] have a beginning or origin; originate; start; begin
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[العلية] story or room directly below the roof of a building, especially a house
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[الهمجي] like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; merciless
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[نائب] one appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him; substitute in office
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[مروعة] causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror; frightful
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[ازدراء] state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace; disobedience to, or open disrespect of
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[المطبخ] kitchen or cooking department; food; manner or style of cooking; cookery
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[الساحة] a playing field where sports events take place; a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
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[عقد] constrict; make smaller; compress or concentrate
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[حجيرة] sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory; small compartment, as for work or study
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[الكاحل] the joint which connects the foot with the leg; tarsus
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[المحتال] bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure
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[إذن] act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant
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[القهري] having the power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
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[ضار الملتوية] departing from the correct and accepted way; misleading; not straightforward