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recover  Speak Example sentences
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adj. marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
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n. sense of touch; feeling; stroke in beating time; sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty
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v. get or find back; regain a former condition
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n. a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
redoubtable  Speak Example sentences
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v. to divide into quarters.
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a. formidable; arousing fear or awe; worthy of respect or honor
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n. a christian who denies the authority of the pope and holds the right of special judgment.
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v. save from loss or destruction; rescue of a ship; save for further use
remodel  Speak Example sentences
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n. person devoted to pleasure and luxury
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n. process or result of becoming less or smaller
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a. formidable; arousing fear or awe; worthy of respect or honor
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v. make over in structure or style; reconstruct; change the form of
sanctimonious  Speak Example sentences
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adj. smooth and pleasant in manner.
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a. mocking; exposing human folly to ridicule
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a. excessively or hypocritically pious; possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious
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a. tending to vary often or widely, as in price; inconstant or fickle; tending to violence
satiric  Speak Example sentences
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v. get or find back; regain a former condition
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v. strive for victory or superiority; contend; compete
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a. mocking; exposing human folly to ridicule
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n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
savor  Speak Example sentences
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v. appreciate fully; enjoy or relish; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
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n. reproduction of a written record as a legal or school record
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a. excessively or hypocritically pious; possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious
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v. offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back
scarcity  Speak Example sentences
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v. to divide into quarters.
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n. insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
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v. appreciate fully; enjoy or relish; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
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n. minor quarrel; noisy quarrel, usually about a trivial matter
selective  Speak Example sentences
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n. insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
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adj. having the power of choice.
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n. the act of bringing into a state of submission.
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n. symbol of disgrace; small mark, as scar or birthmark; mark made with red-hot iron
solace  Speak Example sentences
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n. comfort or relieve in sorrow, misfortune, or distress
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v. to endow with life or energy.
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n. relative importance; property of being prominent; a standing out from the surface of something
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a. empty; showing lack of thought or intelligence; vacant
squabble  Speak Example sentences
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a. excessively or hypocritically pious; possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious
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n. the state or period of being a student.
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n. the act of bringing into a state of submission.
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n. minor quarrel; noisy quarrel, usually about a trivial matter