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  Academic Words Level 1 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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curb  Speak Example sentences
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crowd together; keep close to; tight or amorous embrace
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bend or curve; guide and manage, or restrain
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outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit
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ability to comprehend; understand and profit from experience; intellect; the power of cognition
design  Speak Example sentences
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act of executing or performing any duty; assigned duty or activity
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act of working out the form of something; creation of something in mind; formulate a plan for
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exhibiting disordered of mind; deranged in mind; very foolish
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move by successive leaps, as toads do; spring or jump on one foot
dramatic  Speak Example sentences
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striking; sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
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filled to satisfaction with food or drink; containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
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call for; salute; greet; praise vociferously
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question severely; torture or afflict
ego  Speak Example sentences
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forever; being without beginning or end; existing outside of time; infinite
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offend; affront; treat, mention, or speak to rudely
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catastrophe; great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
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self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves; exaggerated sense of self-importance
equal  Speak Example sentences
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having the same quantity, measure, or value as another; identical
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give wholly; cease to feel resentment against; an excuse for a fault or an offense; give up; resign
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ability to comprehend; understand and profit from experience; intellect; the power of cognition
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move slowly, as people or animals with the body near the ground
exotic  Speak Example sentences
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from another part of the world; foreign; strikingly strange or unusual
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question severely; torture or afflict
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exceptional creative ability; unusual mental ability; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
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an inborn pattern of behavior; nature
fabric  Speak Example sentences
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set free from restraint; set at liberty; release; give or transfer
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plan; directions for making something; a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
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cloth; stuff; artifact made by weaving or synthetic fibers; structure; framework
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bend or curve; guide and manage, or restrain
favour  Speak Example sentences
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act of executing or performing any duty; assigned duty or activity
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lifting device consisting of a platform or cage
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act of gracious kindness; inclination to approve
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offend; affront; treat, mention, or speak to rudely
flush  Speak Example sentences
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self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves; exaggerated sense of self-importance
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play or game for money or other stakes; lose or squander by gaming
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a fundamental or essential constituent of a composite entity; basic assumptions or principles of a subject
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flow and spread suddenly; flood
formula  Speak Example sentences
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move by successive leaps, as toads do; spring or jump on one foot
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offend; affront; treat, mention, or speak to rudely
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something additional of the same kind
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plan; directions for making something; a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement