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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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reserve  Speak Example sentences
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[自我控制,疏远] lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
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[杀,残杀] put to death with a weapon, or by violence; kill; put an end to; destroy; overwhelm, as with laughter or love
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[剥落,脱壳] remove from the husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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[脸,面貌] face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal
rib  Speak Example sentences
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[剥落,脱壳] remove from the husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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[肋骨,伞骨] one of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax
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[杀,残杀] put to death with a weapon, or by violence; kill; put an end to; destroy; overwhelm, as with laughter or love
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[自我控制,疏远] lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
rider  Speak Example sentences
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[家庭教师] private instructor; one that gives additional or special instruction
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[附文,扶手] amendment or clause added to a legislative bill; one that rides, especially one who rides horses
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[恢复,翻新] act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
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[茶壶] pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle
sanctuary  Speak Example sentences
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[避难所] place of refuge or asylum; shrine; holy places, such as a church, temple, or mosque
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[复活] rising again; resumption of vigor; the act of rising from the dead or returning to life
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[完整的,持续的] continuous, without interruption; intact
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[足够,(食物)满足] be enough, or sufficient; meet the need; be equal to the end proposed; be adequate; satisfy
sate  Speak Example sentences
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[使心满意足,使过度满足,使腻] satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess
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[思索,推测,投机] examination by the eye; intellectual check; business venture in unusual risks, with a chance for large profits
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[色彩] color; dye with a color
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[垃圾,废物] garbage; rubbish; worthless or discarded material or objects
smog  Speak Example sentences
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[羞怯,胆怯] the feeling of fear of embarrassment
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[坚定的,强壮的] marked by imposing physical strength; firmly built; firm, and resolute
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[象征主义,符号论] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations
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[烟雾] air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
spurious  Speak Example sentences
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[伪造的,欺骗的] false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
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[使心满意足,使过度满足,使腻] satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess
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[阻碍,挫败] hinder or prevent of ; frustrate
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[家庭教师] private instructor; one that gives additional or special instruction
submarine  Speak Example sentences
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[阻碍,挫败] hinder or prevent of ; frustrate
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[复活] rising again; resumption of vigor; the act of rising from the dead or returning to life
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[水下的] beneath the surface of the water; undersea
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[壮丽,辉煌] magnificence; Great light or luster; brilliance; grandeur
sue  Speak Example sentences
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[扭伤] a sudden or violent twist or wrench of a joint with stretching or tearing of ligaments
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[等候,逗留,混日子] delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait
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[请求,请愿] plead; file a suit against
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[坚定的,强壮的] marked by imposing physical strength; firmly built; firm, and resolute
supple  Speak Example sentences
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[足够,(食物)满足] be enough, or sufficient; meet the need; be equal to the end proposed; be adequate; satisfy
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[柔顺的,顺从的,柔韧的] flexible; moving and bending with ease
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[向一旁,向侧面地] with the side forward; to or from a side
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[杀,残杀] put to death with a weapon, or by violence; kill; put an end to; destroy; overwhelm, as with laughter or love