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 5000 Words Level 2 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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resurrect  Speak Example sentences
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bring back to life; rise from the dead; bring back into practice, notice, or use
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trap; gin; anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble
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feel joy; experience gladness in a high degree; have pleasurable satisfaction; be delighted; enjoy
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remaining as a residue; surplus
scourge  Speak Example sentences
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feel joy; experience gladness in a high degree; have pleasurable satisfaction; be delighted; enjoy
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record by making a mark; reckon or count; keep score
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negligent; careless in performing duty or business
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the whip used to inflict punishment; severe punishment
sect  Speak Example sentences
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a separate religious body; faction united by common interests or beliefs
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any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones
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remaining as a residue; surplus
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withdraw; take back; draw back or in
sever  Speak Example sentences
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a small cut made with scissors or shears; small piece cut or clipped off
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make dirty or spotty; stain; dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt
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cut off from a whole; set or keep apart; divide or separate
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plant; place seeds in or on
shrewd  Speak Example sentences
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shrivel; decay; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
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act of severing, or state of being severed; partition; separation.
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drink greedily; flood with water, as for washing
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clever; characterized by keen awareness, sharp intelligence
skit  Speak Example sentences
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move one way and the other to get a close place; lie close for comfort; cuddle; nestle
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short, usually comic dramatic performance or work
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negligent; careless in performing duty or business
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unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
snare  Speak Example sentences
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trap; gin; anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble
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hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive
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the whip used to inflict punishment; severe punishment
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remnant; something left after other parts have been taken away
stance  Speak Example sentences
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attitude or position of a standing person or animal; posture; mental posture; point of view
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act of severing, or state of being severed; partition; separation.
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record by making a mark; reckon or count; keep score
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of unusually high quality; excellent; wonderful
sturdy  Speak Example sentences
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causing abhorrence or disgust
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a separate religious body; faction united by common interests or beliefs
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robust; strong; substantially made or constructed
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forward; send from one person or place to another
sully  Speak Example sentences
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causing abhorrence or disgust
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shrivel; decay; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
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express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace
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place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; make dirty, as by exposure to air