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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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acquisition  Speak Example sentences
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[النشرة] a brief statement of facts; any public notice or announcement; a periodical publication
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[اعلان] announcement; explicit  statement; a formal public statement
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[امتلاك] act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
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[مساهمة] act of contributing; payment exacted for a special purpose; impost or levy
amuse  Speak Example sentences
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[طرفة] shut eyes briefly; wink
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[دفعة] quantity of bread baked at one time; a collection of things or persons to be handled together
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[ممنوع] drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel
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[يروق] occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion; cause laughter or be funny; delude or deceive
asset  Speak Example sentences
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[الأسير] a prisoner taken by force; one kept in power of another; one charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection
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[المحافظين] favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
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[الأصول] properties; advantage; useful or valuable quality
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[خزانة] a small room or cabinet used for storage space
author  Speak Example sentences
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[المضغوط] closely and firmly united or packed together; briefly giving a gist of something
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[جاذبية الكاتب] beginner, former, or first mover of anything; creator; originator; one who composes or writes book or composer
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[تصور] form or develop in mind; devise; become pregnant with; begin or originate in a specific way
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[العدوانية حاجز] obstacle; structure built to bar passage; boundary or limit
batch  Speak Example sentences
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[يروق] occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion; cause laughter or be funny; delude or deceive
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[جاذبية الكاتب] beginner, former, or first mover of anything; creator; originator; one who composes or writes book or composer
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[دفعة] quantity of bread baked at one time; a collection of things or persons to be handled together
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[تعويذة] quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment; logical contradiction
breakthrough  Speak Example sentences
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[المحافظين] favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
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[حساب] admit; yield; give up physical control of another
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[انفراجه] act of overcoming or penetrating an obstacle or restriction
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[السياق] circumstance; the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it
circumstance  Speak Example sentences
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[ظرف] situation; condition; detail accompanying or surrounding an event
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[طرفة] shut eyes briefly; wink
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[كاف] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
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[نشأت] come up from a lower to a higher position; come above the horizon; spring up; come into action
clutch  Speak Example sentences
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[ظرف] situation; condition; detail accompanying or surrounding an event
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[المضغوط] closely and firmly united or packed together; briefly giving a gist of something
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[الفاصل] grasp and hold tightly; attempt to grasp or seize
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[كاف] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
colonial  Speak Example sentences
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[حساب] admit; yield; give up physical control of another
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[مساهمة] act of contributing; payment exacted for a special purpose; impost or levy
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[المستعمرة] of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
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[المرغوب فيه] worthwhile; worth doing or achieving; advisable
compact  Speak Example sentences
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[النشرة] a brief statement of facts; any public notice or announcement; a periodical publication
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[مهد] small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers;  infancy, or very early life
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[القوس] the continuous portion of a circle; something curved in shape
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[المضغوط] closely and firmly united or packed together; briefly giving a gist of something