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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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abide  Speak Example sentences
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[刺激,使活动] make active or more active; stimulate; make radioactive
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[忍耐,忍受,遵守] endure; put up with; bear; tolerate
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[足够的,充实的] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
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[指南针,圆规,两脚规] go about or entirely round; make the circuit of; enclose on all sides; surround
abolition  Speak Example sentences
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[假定,设想,采取] something taken for accepted as true without proof; taking over or taking possession of
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[运动员] a sportsman; one who contended for a prize in public games
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[废除,取消] ending; act of abolishing; act of doing away with
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[明显的,明白的,外表的,表面上的] capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye
adequate  Speak Example sentences
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[争论,辩论] contentious speech act; argument
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[权威的,第一流的,经典的,标准的] standard and authoritative rather than new or experimental; relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans
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[意见一致,多数人的意见,舆论] general agreement or accord; opinion reached by a group as a whole
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[足够的,充实的] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
ample  Speak Example sentences
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[飞奔,投掷] move suddenly and rapidly
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[丰富的,富足的] more than enough in size or scope or capacity; relatively large
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[补偿的钱或物] something given or received as payment as for a service or loss or injury
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[足够的,充实的] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
bleach  Speak Example sentences
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[民主] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of elected people
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[偏见,偏好] preference or inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment;  influence in an unfair way
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[改变] make fit for; change to suit a new purpose
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[去色,漂白] make white or colorless; blanch
burial  Speak Example sentences
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[忍耐,忍受,遵守] endure; put up with; bear; tolerate
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[埋葬,葬礼] grave or tomb; the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave; concealing something under the ground
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[腐烂] decompose; break sown; disintegration; rottenness; decline; worsen; decadence
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[模糊不清的事物] something hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind; dim, confused appearance;  moral stain or blot
category  Speak Example sentences
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[明显的,明白的,外表的,表面上的] capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye
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[通常的,习惯的,惯例的] agreeing with or established by common usage; conventional; habitual
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[种类,类目,范畴] group; class; a collection of things sharing a common attribute
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[确实,无疑,确实的事情,必然的事] quality or condition of being certain; fact or truth unquestionable established; clearness
classical  Speak Example sentences
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[权威的,第一流的,经典的,标准的] standard and authoritative rather than new or experimental; relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans
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[民主] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of elected people
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[完全的,最终的] final; complete; precisely defined or explicit
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[习惯,传统,惯例] tradition; practice followed by people of a particular group or region
comet  Speak Example sentences
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[彗星] an object that goes around the sun
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[权威的,第一流的,经典的,标准的] standard and authoritative rather than new or experimental; relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans
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[争论,辩论] contentious speech act; argument
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[绷带,用绷带包扎] a strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds
compass  Speak Example sentences
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[指南针,圆规,两脚规] go about or entirely round; make the circuit of; enclose on all sides; surround
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[汽车,小汽车] self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on street or roadway
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[绷带,用绷带包扎] a strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds
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[(峭壁的)边沿,边缘] edge, margin, or border of a steep place verge