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  Academic Words Level 4 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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reproach  Speak Example sentences
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[仮名] pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
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[性] able to be dissolved; able to be explained
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[よちよち] walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
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[非難] express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace
ruffle  Speak Example sentences
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[により] by which; by what; how
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[エモリエント] having supreme rank or power; self-governing; excellent; independent
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[フリル] make into a ruff; disturb the surface of; make uneven by agitation; throw into disorder or confusion
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[減算] remove a part from the whole
scarcely  Speak Example sentences
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[リサイクル] reprocess; use again after processing
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[ほとんど] hardly; barely; only just
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[シーム] line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar
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[卸売] selling or related to selling goods in large quantities; large-scale; on a large scale without careful discrimination
seam  Speak Example sentences
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[刺激] encourage; motivate; arouse; spur;  excite or invigorate with a stimulant
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[レトリック] art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language
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[アップキープ] act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance
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[シーム] line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces; line across a surface, as a crack; scar
sectional  Speak Example sentences
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[反乱] organize opposition to authority; make revolution
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[断面] consisting of or divided into sections; separating into sections
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[刺激] encourage; motivate; arouse; spur;  excite or invigorate with a stimulant
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[叱る] find fault or rail with rude clamor; utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke
sicken  Speak Example sentences
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[妥当性] quality of having legal force or effectiveness
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[吐き気がする] make sick; disease;  impair; weaken; become sick; fall into disease
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[タンク] a tank used for collecting and storing a liquid; holding pond; lake used to keep water for community use
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[新芽] have new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud; shoot up
soluble  Speak Example sentences
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[性] able to be dissolved; able to be explained
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[同様] denote; mean; indicate
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[よちよち] walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
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[リベット] metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together
stimulate  Speak Example sentences
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[刺激] encourage; motivate; arouse; spur;  excite or invigorate with a stimulant
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[タブレット] a small flat compressed cake of some substance; a dose of medicine; simplified computer with the only screen
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[仮名] pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
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[受ける] experience; suffer; pass through
stimulus  Speak Example sentences
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[レトリック] art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language
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[断面] consisting of or divided into sections; separating into sections
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[タンク] a tank used for collecting and storing a liquid; holding pond; lake used to keep water for community use
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[刺激] helps something to happen more quickly
stipulate  Speak Example sentences
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[規定] specify or arrange in agreement; express demand in agreement; promise in agreement
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[同様] denote; mean; indicate
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[批判に耐えられる] capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector
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[補足] added to complete or make up a deficiency