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  Academic Words Level 2 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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[리그] health; vigor; state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness
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[결함] inadequate; lacking an essential quality or element
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[변명] free from blame; clear from guilt; release from a charge; forgive entirely
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[다사다난한] busy; momentous; full of events or incidents
dismal  Speak Example sentences
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[변동] a wave motion; a situation in which prices, levels, or interest rates go up and down
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[인내] tolerate; carry on through, despite hardships
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[음침한] causing gloom or depression; dreary; somber; melancholy
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[항구] provide a refuge for; hide; give shelter to
disparity  Speak Example sentences
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[성실] believer; someone who continues to support someone or something
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[간청] beg for urgently; make an earnest appeal
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[불사] not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever
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[불균형] difference; condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree
distinguished  Speak Example sentences
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[다사다난한] busy; momentous; full of events or incidents
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[드레인] draw out; flow out; waste
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[성실] believer; someone who continues to support someone or something
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[구별] prominent; celebrated, well-known, or eminent because of past achievements
divide  Speak Example sentences
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[발산] difference; deviation; separation; the act of moving away in a different direction
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[부문] act or process of diving anything into parts; state of being divided; separation
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[분할] sever into two or more parts or pieces; separate into parts; cause to be separate
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[헤럴드] proclaim; announces important news; messenger
elasticity  Speak Example sentences
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[탄력] the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
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[드레인] draw out; flow out; waste
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[켜다] swallow; utter or make a noise, as when eating too quickly
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[불사] not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever
endure  Speak Example sentences
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[인내] tolerate; carry on through, despite hardships
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[아이돌] image used for worship; the image of divinity; representation or symbol; false notion or conception
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[성실] believer; someone who continues to support someone or something
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[드레인] draw out; flow out; waste
gallop  Speak Example sentences
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[갤럽] move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds
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[즉시] not deferred by an interval of time; present; occurring at once; instant
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[유머] employing or showing humor; funny; amusing
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[인도주의] philanthropic; one devoted to the promotion of human welfare and social reforms
grateful  Speak Example sentences
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[즉시] not deferred by an interval of time; present; occurring at once; instant
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[감사] thankful; appreciative of benefits received
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[착취] unfair use of someone's work, giving little in return
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[뒤꿈치] back part of the human foot; lower end of a ship's mast
gulf  Speak Example sentences
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[감사] thankful; appreciative of benefits received
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[갤럽] move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds
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[만] an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
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[변명] free from blame; clear from guilt; release from a charge; forgive entirely