Hard TOEFL Words - Group 11

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sensitive  Speak Example sentences
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criteria; basis for comparison
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able to feel; responsive to external conditions; susceptible to attitudes of others
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increase speed or rate; assume responsibility; volunteer or offer
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breathtaking; strikingly beautiful or attractive
sermon  Speak Example sentences
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religious discourse delivered as part of a church service
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appropriate to a purpose or an occasion
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fall or sink heavily; collapse; decline suddenly; fall off
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company owned by the parent company or holding company
shackle  Speak Example sentences
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break apart; cut; devide
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a metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or captive; a fetter or manacle
Exercise
new organization or business venture
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company owned by the parent company or holding company
signify  Speak Example sentences
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religious discourse delivered as part of a church service
Exercise
denote; mean; indicate
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cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow
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physical or moral strength to resist or withstand illness, fatigue, or hardship; endurance
slash  Speak Example sentences
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cut; reduce largely
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destroy; put an end to; quench; kill violently
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completely neat and clean
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to minimize the importance of; get rid of
slope  Speak Example sentences
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break apart; cut; devide
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be at an angle; incline; gradient
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company owned by the parent company or holding company
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leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed; pass quickly, almost unnoticed; disappear or die
smog  Speak Example sentences
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breathtaking; strikingly beautiful or attractive
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a musician who performs a single
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air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
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daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
snowflake  Speak Example sentences
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be at an angle; incline; gradient
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increase speed or rate; assume responsibility; volunteer or offer
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a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
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crystal of snow
spark  Speak Example sentences
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physical or moral strength to resist or withstand illness, fatigue, or hardship; endurance
Exercise
activate, set in motion
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religious discourse delivered as part of a church service
Exercise
daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
spectrum  Speak Example sentences
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a broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities
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a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data
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a little; a bit
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backbone; vertebrate; thorn; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf