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Stories of USA Today
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dash  Speak Example sentences
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make wider or larger; cause to expand; enlarge; widen
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class, society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect
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person authorized to act as representative for another; deputy
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throw with violence or haste; break, as by throwing or by collision; form or sketch rapidly
deadlock  Speak Example sentences
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ignore; discount; take no notice of
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place where milk is produced, kept, or converted into butter or cheese
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person authorized to act as representative for another; deputy
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standstill resulting from opposition of two forces or factions; stalemate
decrease  Speak Example sentences
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lower in spirits; press down
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turn aside; draw someone's attention away from something
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hard monotonous routine work
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lessen; reduce; make a quantity smaller
deflect  Speak Example sentences
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distract; withdraw money and move into a different location
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lessen; reduce; make a quantity smaller
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turn aside; draw someone's attention away from something
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lower in spirits; press down
delectable  Speak Example sentences
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ignore; discount; take no notice of
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delightful; delicious; extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
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judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation
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excellence or eminence; note or mark of difference
demonstrate  Speak Example sentences
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show clearly and deliberately; manifest; confirm; prove
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scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
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throw with violence or haste; break, as by throwing or by collision; form or sketch rapidly
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distract; withdraw money and move into a different location
denomination  Speak Example sentences
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a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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ignore; discount; take no notice of
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scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops
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class, society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect
depletion  Speak Example sentences
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become worse; decline; fall
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act of emptying, reducing, or exhausting
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show clearly and deliberately; manifest; confirm; prove
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length of straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
desolate  Speak Example sentences
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unpopulated; providing no shelter or sustenance; devoid of inhabitants
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throw with violence or haste; break, as by throwing or by collision; form or sketch rapidly
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lessen; reduce; make a quantity smaller
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left and abandoned; negligent in performing a duty
diameter  Speak Example sentences
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detect; perceive
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upset; throw into confusion or disorder
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left and abandoned; negligent in performing a duty
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length of straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference