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  Academic Words Level 1 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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adopt  Speak Example sentences
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orchestra; team; strip; ribbon; belt; unite; ally
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passage for water or other fluids to flow through; bed of a stream or river; route of communication or access
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accept; take on; raise; take into one's family
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a burning piece of wood; mark made by burning with a hot iron; distinctive mark upon in any way
amount  Speak Example sentences
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total of two or more quantities; aggregate; sum
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orchestra; team; strip; ribbon; belt; unite; ally
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an extra dividend to the shareholders; money paid in addition to a stated compensation
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wooden boards collectively; act of entering a ship; supplying with meals and lodgings for pay
attitude  Speak Example sentences
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people who buy goods or services
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a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
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posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue
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fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance
beat  Speak Example sentences
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posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
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whip; strike; defeat; hit repeatedly
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fee for services; a group of people appointed to find out about something; authorize
bizarre  Speak Example sentences
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in any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event
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fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance
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passage for water or other fluids to flow through; bed of a stream or river; route of communication or access
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make an offer of; propose; offer in words; declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance
bolt  Speak Example sentences
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fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance
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something formed in mind; thought or notion
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dash or dart off; move or jump suddenly
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wooden boards collectively; act of entering a ship; supplying with meals and lodgings for pay
bonus  Speak Example sentences
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dash or dart off; move or jump suddenly
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people who buy goods or services
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an extra dividend to the shareholders; money paid in addition to a stated compensation
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make an offer of; propose; offer in words; declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance
cafeteria  Speak Example sentences
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accept; take on; raise; take into one's family
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pursue to kill or take; hunt; follow as if to catch
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a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
cemetery  Speak Example sentences
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place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; graveyard
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house or shed built for temporary occupation; covered stall or temporary structure
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express an opinion; remark
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a burning piece of wood; mark made by burning with a hot iron; distinctive mark upon in any way
chapter  Speak Example sentences
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dash or dart off; move or jump suddenly
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fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance
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passage for water or other fluids to flow through; bed of a stream or river; route of communication or access
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division of a book or treatise; assembly of monks; bishop's council; organized branch of some society