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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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rinse  Speak Example sentences
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reddish color; healthy-looking
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in a subsequent manner; at a later time; accordingly; therefore
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cleanse with water; flush; wash lightly without soap
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someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells them to merchants
ruddy  Speak Example sentences
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reddish color; healthy-looking
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complete agreement in opinion or resolution of all persons concerned
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being without question; not counterfeit or copied; agreeable to truth or fact
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creep or steal privately; come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen
scourge  Speak Example sentences
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put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
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the whip used to inflict punishment; severe punishment
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being without question; not counterfeit or copied; agreeable to truth or fact
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in a subsequent manner; at a later time; accordingly; therefore
sloping  Speak Example sentences
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slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon
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forceful, often vindictive anger; fury; just punishment of an offense or crime
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return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief; backslide; turn back to
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small signboard outside the office; coarse beach gravel of little water; worn stones and pebbles
snob  Speak Example sentences
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a vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable than he really is; one who apes his superiors
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a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
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false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
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flexible; moving and bending with ease
snug  Speak Example sentences
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put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
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someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells them to merchants
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complete agreement in opinion or resolution of all persons concerned
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a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
squat  Speak Example sentences
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house roof made with a plant material
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stocky; short and thick; low and broad
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poison; poisonous secretion of animals, such as snake or spider; spite
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dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
stab  Speak Example sentences
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supersonic; higher in frequency than the range of sound perceptible to the human ear
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set resolution or proposal for future consideration; hold back to a later time
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pierce with a pointed weapon; wound or kill by a pointed instrument
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dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
suburb  Speak Example sentences
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prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
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outskirts; usually residential area or community outlying a city
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rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling; circling
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house roof made with a plant material
thicket  Speak Example sentences
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cleanse with water; flush; wash lightly without soap
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wood or collection of trees, shrubs
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slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon
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someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells them to merchants