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  Academic Words Level 2 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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incredulous  Speak Example sentences
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of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
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difficult to believe; incredible; skeptical
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endlessly; incessantly; for a long time, no end defined; forever
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treat with ridicule or contempt; mimic; frustrate hopes of
intention  Speak Example sentences
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fluid; juice; substance in a fluid state
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something that you want and plan to do
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busy; energetic; vigorous
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favored; better; more desirable or worthy than another; preferred
interfere  Speak Example sentences
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causing anger, displeasure, resentment, or affront
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bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing
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disrupt; hinder; be or create a hindrance or obstacle
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any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae; one who wakes early
interference  Speak Example sentences
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a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless, odorless, tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas
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framed section of window or door that is filled with a sheet of glass or others; panel in a wall or door
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obstruction; prevention; act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding
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failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities; inattentive
moisture  Speak Example sentences
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unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound
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framed section of window or door that is filled with a sheet of glass or others; panel in a wall or door
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of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
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wetness caused by water
monotony  Speak Example sentences
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unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound
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continuing or remaining for a long time; enduring; durable
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robber on seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on seas
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uniformity or lack of variation; continual increase, or continual decrease; tedium as a result of repetition
moor  Speak Example sentences
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favored; better; more desirable or worthy than another; preferred
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wetness caused by water
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decorative; any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value
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a dark-colored person generally; broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained
negligent  Speak Example sentences
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a dark-colored person generally; broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained
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of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
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unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound
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failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities; inattentive
nonsense  Speak Example sentences
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silliness; words or signs having no intelligible meaning
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thorough; concentrated; tending to give force or emphasis
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repeated; recurring at intervals of time
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a dark-colored person generally; broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained
outermost  Speak Example sentences
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far most; utmost; outmost; most distant from the center or inside
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opposite; reversed in order, nature, or effect; turned upside down
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one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; trafficker; trader
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decorative; any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value