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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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reserve  Speak Example sentences
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[リズム] recurring with measured regularity
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[残] the remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
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[予約] lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
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[シングル] small signboard outside the office; coarse beach gravel of little water; worn stones and pebbles
shawl  Speak Example sentences
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[ショール] a large piece of cloth worn especially by women or girls over their shoulders and head
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[すごい] strange; mysterious; peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature
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[官能] physical rather than spiritual or intellectual; affecting any of senses or sense organ; sensory
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[スプリアス] false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
shroud  Speak Example sentences
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[槍浸した] a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting by thrusting or throwing
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[ロイヤリティ] being royal; quality of royal person; share of the product, as a percentage paid to the copyright owner
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[シュラウド] hide from view; wrap for burial; shut off from sight; shelter
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[気まま] unchecked; free; marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
spurious  Speak Example sentences
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[セージ] one celebrated for wisdom, experience, and judgment; various plants of the genus Salvia
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[スプリアス] false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
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[シャッフル] disorder; move back and forth; mix to make a random order or arrangement
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[長屋] apartment barely meeting minimal standards
sweeping  Speak Example sentences
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[反発] tending to repel or drive off; causing repugnance or aversion; disgusting
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[抜本的な] extensive; having wide-ranging influence or effect:
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[シフト横] with the side forward; to or from a side
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[残] the remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
tempting  Speak Example sentences
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[魅力] attractive; appealing to or attracting someone, even if wrong or inadvisable
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[その後] in a subsequent manner; at a later time; accordingly; therefore
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[長屋] apartment barely meeting minimal standards
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[シングル] small signboard outside the office; coarse beach gravel of little water; worn stones and pebbles
tenement  Speak Example sentences
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[無人島] having no residents; unsettled; unoccupied
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[毒] poison; poisonous secretion of animals, such as snake or spider; spite
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[鞘] the case for sword blade; sheath
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[長屋] apartment barely meeting minimal standards
treacherous  Speak Example sentences
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[無人島] having no residents; unsettled; unoccupied
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[ショール] a large piece of cloth worn especially by women or girls over their shoulders and head
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[傾向] house roof made with a plant material
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[危険] dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
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[卸売] someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells them to merchants
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[危険] dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
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[ひも] act of twisting; lightweight cord
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[その後] in a subsequent manner; at a later time; accordingly; therefore
uncanny  Speak Example sentences
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[儀式への依存] established ceremony prescribed by a religion
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[気まま] unchecked; free; marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
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[すごい] strange; mysterious; peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature
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[昔] in time past; long ago; in old time