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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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roundabout  Speak Example sentences
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[vòng] circuitous; going round; indirect; encircling; enveloping; comprehensive
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[trọng điểm] one that keeps guard; soldier stationed as a guard
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[visage] face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal
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[nhút nhát] shy; craven; lacking self-confidence; shy
salutary  Speak Example sentences
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[wright] one who makes or repairs something
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[bổ ích] tending to improve; beneficial; favorable to health
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[dốc] slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon
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[tiểu bang đã] satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess
sanctuary  Speak Example sentences
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[trang nghiêm] majestic; impressive, as in size or proportions
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[xảo quyệt] dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
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[thánh] place of refuge or asylum; shrine; holy places, such as a church, temple, or mosque
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[rumble] utter or emit low dull sounds; move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound
sate  Speak Example sentences
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[bảng] set resolution or proposal for future consideration; hold back to a later time
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[chung cư] apartment barely meeting minimal standards
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[tiểu bang đã] satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess
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[cản trở] hinder or prevent of ; frustrate
scandalous  Speak Example sentences
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[vista] the distant view, especially through an opening, as between buildings or trees; outlook
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[tai tiếng] giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation
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[sentry] the soldier placed on guard; guard
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[thảm] a heavy textile with a woven design
sect  Speak Example sentences
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[sentry] the soldier placed on guard; guard
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[phái] a separate religious body; faction united by common interests or beliefs
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[wright] one who makes or repairs something
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[vòng] circuitous; going round; indirect; encircling; enveloping; comprehensive
sensibility  Speak Example sentences
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[chung cư] apartment barely meeting minimal standards
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[nhà chọc trời] a very tall building with many stories
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[nhạy cảm] ability to feel or perceive; keen intellectual perception
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[sỉ] someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells them to merchants
spartan  Speak Example sentences
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[Spartan] avoiding luxury and comfort; sternly disciplined
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[xảo quyệt] dangerous; dangerously unstable and unpredictable; disloyal; tending to betray
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[kỳ diệu] astonishing; wonderful; amazing, especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation
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[đồng nhất] sameness or consistency; freedom from variation or difference
table  Speak Example sentences
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[biểu tượng] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations
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[bảng] set resolution or proposal for future consideration; hold back to a later time
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[rumble] utter or emit low dull sounds; move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound
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[tack] small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head
tack  Speak Example sentences
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[truyền máu] pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring
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[tack] small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head
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[đồng nhất] sameness or consistency; freedom from variation or difference
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[đẩy] tending to repel or drive off; causing repugnance or aversion; disgusting