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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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[レイアウト] the overall design of a page; plan or design of something that is laid out
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[比] the relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind; rate; proportion
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[リネン] fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant; thread made from fibers of the flax plant
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[経過] gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; unobserved or imperceptible progress; slip or error; failing in duty
linger  Speak Example sentences
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[経過] gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; unobserved or imperceptible progress; slip or error; failing in duty
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[比] the relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind; rate; proportion
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[残る] be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
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[専制政治] original work used as a model; original type
mischief  Speak Example sentences
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[取得] get hold of; gain possession of; acquire, in any way
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[妄想] psychological disorder by delusions; extreme, irrational distrust of others
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[見過ごす] ignore; disregard;  fail to notice; watch over
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[いたずら] behavior that causes discomfiture or annoyance in another; tendency to play pranks or cause embarrassment
notify  Speak Example sentences
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[海軍] relating to, or adjacent to the sea; relating to marine shipping or navigation
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[襲い] attacks suddenly; seize something swiftly and eagerly; leap into the air intending to seize someone or something
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[出版] make public; make known to humankind, or people in general
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[通知] make known;  give notice to; inform by notice
oblige  Speak Example sentences
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[オプション] not obligatory; left to choice; not compulsory or automatic
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[保育園] force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
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[関連] having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating
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[資格] make such as is required; give added or requisite qualities to; make legally capable
obscure  Speak Example sentences
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[無名] darken; make dim or indistinct; conceal in obscurity
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[無法者] a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal
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[プラネタリウム] apparatus or model representing the solar system; museum in which images of stars are projected onto a domed ceiling
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[危険] danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction
omen  Speak Example sentences
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[前兆] any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil
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[プロキシ] authority to act for another; agent or substitute
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[近接] state of being proximate; nearness in place, time, or relation
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[無名] darken; make dim or indistinct; conceal in obscurity
overlook  Speak Example sentences
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[いたずら] behavior that causes discomfiture or annoyance in another; tendency to play pranks or cause embarrassment
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[見過ごす] ignore; disregard;  fail to notice; watch over
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[生産性] having quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; causing to exist
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[プロキシ] authority to act for another; agent or substitute
paralysis  Speak Example sentences
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[前兆] any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil
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[麻痺] loss of the ability to move a body part
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[オプション] not obligatory; left to choice; not compulsory or automatic
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[残る] be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
patio  Speak Example sentences
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[守護聖人] benefactor; regular customer
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[パティオ] paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation
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[通知] make known;  give notice to; inform by notice
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[危険] danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction