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proxy  Speak Example sentences
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n. a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
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n. the act of selling.
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v. to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
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n. authority to act for another; agent or substitute
purl  Speak Example sentences
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n. the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
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v. to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
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v. prepare text for filming or broadcasting
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v. to cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
recapture  Speak Example sentences
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n. member of working class; blue collar person
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n. the act of selling.
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n. a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
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v. to capture again.
refinery  Speak Example sentences
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n. a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
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v. restore to good condition; renew
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n. a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
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adj. first in order of precedence.
refute  Speak Example sentences
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v. disprove; prove to be false or incorrect
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a. skilled; expert; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
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v. to separate.
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n. principal character in a work of fiction; main character in a drama; leader of a cause; champion
renovate  Speak Example sentences
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adj. conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
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v. to separate.
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v. restore to good condition; renew
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adv. in the second place in order or succession.
reticence  Speak Example sentences
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n. reserve; state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
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v. to cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
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n. observer; audience; one who looks on
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n. the office of a guardian.
rotate  Speak Example sentences
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n. the act of selling.
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n. hades.
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v. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; swirl; revolve; turn on or around an axis or a center
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v. confirm; prove the truth of by presentation of evidence or testimony
salacious  Speak Example sentences
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a. dictatorial; domineering; authoritarian
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v. decrease in size or strength; draw gradually to an end
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a. lustful; suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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n. capacity of guardian; guardianship; capacity or activity of tutor; instruction or teaching
saponaceous  Speak Example sentences
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adj. having the nature or quality of soap.
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adj. befuddled with drinks.
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n. one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man
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adj. having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.