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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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license  Speak Example sentences
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open-minded; tolerant; broad-mindedness; having political views favoring reform and progress
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gaze; stare; look searchingly; company with
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abstain from; resist; hold oneself back
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official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing
magnitude  Speak Example sentences
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open-minded; tolerant; broad-mindedness; having political views favoring reform and progress
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extent; greatness of rank, size, or position
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exclusive control or possession of something; domination
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condition of being pure; freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; cleanness
misguided  Speak Example sentences
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extent; greatness of rank, size, or position
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act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
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based or acting on the error; misled; lacking proper guidance
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state of being proximate; nearness in place, time, or relation
morality  Speak Example sentences
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uphold; retain; maintain in safety from injury, peril, or harm
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set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct
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act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
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farm; an area under cultivation;  a group of cultivated trees or plants
morbid  Speak Example sentences
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not obligatory; left to choice; not compulsory or automatic
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caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
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open-minded; tolerant; broad-mindedness; having political views favoring reform and progress
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official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing
motivate  Speak Example sentences
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not obligatory; left to choice; not compulsory or automatic
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scenery; an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
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movable; not fixed; fluid; unstable
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stimulate; impel; provide with an incentive; move to action
moustache  Speak Example sentences
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attacks suddenly; seize something swiftly and eagerly; leap into the air intending to seize someone or something
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original work used as a model; original type
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hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed
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a tiny piece of anything
multiply  Speak Example sentences
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proliferate; increase; combine by multiplication
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force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
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act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
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movable; not fixed; fluid; unstable
oblige  Speak Example sentences
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authority to act for another; agent or substitute
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a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal
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force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
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any thick lump, mass, or cake, especially a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread
ordeal  Speak Example sentences
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severe trial; a form of trial to determine guilt or innocence; a difficult or painful experience
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lawmaking; the act of making or enacting laws; law enacted by a legislative body
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scenery; an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
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condition of being pure; freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; cleanness