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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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repudiate  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid; penalty intended to ensure compliance
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relating to a group of people sharing an occupation, interest, or habit; of a tribe
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of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth; characterized by nobility; majestic
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disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of
reverent  Speak Example sentences
2
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respectful; worshipful; impressed with deep respect
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abrade or smooth by rubbing with a sharp or rough instrument; draw forcefully over a surface
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cause something or someone to no longer do what is usual or right; state of being twisted or bent out of shape
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sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow
reverie  Speak Example sentences
3
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approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid; penalty intended to ensure compliance
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daydream; state of abstracted musing; absent-minded dreaming while awake
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uneven; rough; very difficult
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one who makes or repairs something
rhythmic  Speak Example sentences
4
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strange; mysterious; peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature
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something that has real or substantial existence; means of support or maintain life
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recurring with measured regularity
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explosively unstable;  relating to volcanoes
rigidity  Speak Example sentences
5
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respectful; worshipful; impressed with deep respect
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a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
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unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
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stiffness; the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
salient  Speak Example sentences
6
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prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
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expression of blame or censure; censure for a fault; a reproach
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without advance preparation; naturally
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uneven; rough; very difficult
soy  Speak Example sentences
7
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a large piece of cloth worn especially by women or girls over their shoulders and head
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bravery; courage, and boldness, as in battle
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stiffness; the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
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soybean; most highly protein vegetable
subsistence  Speak Example sentences
8
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confirm; prove the truth by a presentation of evidence or testimony
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move or gather in large numbers; be overrun
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one who makes or repairs something
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something that has real or substantial existence; means of support or maintain life
swine  Speak Example sentences
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cause something or someone to no longer do what is usual or right; state of being twisted or bent out of shape
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any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestic species; pig
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unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste
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one who makes or repairs something
synonymous  Speak Example sentences
10
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deserving high respect; impressive because of age; profoundly honored
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cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy
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having the same or a similar meaning; identical; equivalent
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turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis