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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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schooner  Speak Example sentences
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originally, a small vessel with two masts; ship; large goblet or drinking glass
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made or consisting of wool
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for a limited time only
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an artist who creates sculptures
scoff  Speak Example sentences
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gentleness; softness; affection; tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
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mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
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one that exercises supreme, permanent authority, especially in a nation or other governmental unit
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the remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
sculptor  Speak Example sentences
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an artist who creates sculptures
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forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime; lack of personal freedom
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momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
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state of having been made use of; the act of using
spaceship  Speak Example sentences
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mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
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reddish color; healthy-looking
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tending or serving to restrict; limiting; confining
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spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space
stab  Speak Example sentences
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gentleness; softness; affection; tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
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pierce with a pointed weapon; wound or kill by a pointed instrument
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daydream; state of abstracted musing; absent-minded dreaming while awake
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beneath the surface of the water; undersea
stalwart  Speak Example sentences
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marked by imposing physical strength; firmly built; firm, and resolute
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mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
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originally, a small vessel with two masts; ship; large goblet or drinking glass
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reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner; make fun of, often in an aggressive manner
substitute  Speak Example sentences
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the main ascending axis of a plant; a stalk or trunk
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one that takes the place of another; a replacement
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lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
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principal raw material or commodity produced in a region; principal element
sultry  Speak Example sentences
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state of having been made use of; the act of using
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burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
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tending or serving to restrict; limiting; confining
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the remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
surly  Speak Example sentences
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rude; sullenly ill-humored; gloomy; threatening, as of weather conditions
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unit of poem, written or printed as a paragraph
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produced by imagination; characterized by vision or foresight; imaginary; idealistic
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burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot
taint  Speak Example sentences
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indignation; a deep sense of injury; strong displeasure
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contaminate; cause to lose purity; affect with or as if with a disease; corrupt morally
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interrupt or cut off voice; keep in or hold back; suppress; conceal or hide
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lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression