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  Academic Words Level 2 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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inform  Speak Example sentences
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too soon; too early; occurring before a state of readiness
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of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
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nick; set in from margin;  impress or stamp
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impart information to; make aware of something; be a pervasive presence in; animate
inspector  Speak Example sentences
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high ranking police officer; investigator who observes carefully
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not suited to your comfort, purpose, or needs
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one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; trafficker; trader
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expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to the measurement of quantity
locomotive  Speak Example sentences
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not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others
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a fellow member of a team
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of or relating to locomotion; a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine
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mythical; fabled; extremely well known; famous or renowned
malicious  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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deliberately harmful; spiteful; proceeding from extreme hatred
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successful; thriving; having or characterized by financial success or good fortune
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mythical; fabled; extremely well known; famous or renowned
mate  Speak Example sentences
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mythical; fabled; extremely well known; famous or renowned
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a structure erected to commemorate persons or events; memorial
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a fellow member of a team
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king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereigns, such as a king or empress
mechanics  Speak Example sentences
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occupy in person; hold or actually have in one's own keeping; have and hold; have the legal title to
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branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies
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a large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right chest
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one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; trafficker; trader
merchant  Speak Example sentences
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metallic or earthen vessel  for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, or for plant
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one who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; trafficker; trader
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a substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
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king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereigns, such as a king or empress
monarch  Speak Example sentences
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king; sole and absolute ruler; sovereigns, such as a king or empress
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unreachable; not available; unattainable
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a structure erected to commemorate persons or events; memorial
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display announcement  in a place of public view; publish  on a list
pirate  Speak Example sentences
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open for the public to read; obvious; plain
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robber on seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on seas
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essay; ordinary speech or writing; commonplace expression or quality
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unreachable; not available; unattainable
plate  Speak Example sentences
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in a large manner; for the most part; mainly
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not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others
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astonishing; very effective or surprising, or difficult to believe
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a flat piece of metal; thick sheet of metal; small, usually circular, the vessel of metal or wood for the food table