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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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remorse  Speak Example sentences
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[整頓] being in proper time; timely; arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper
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[離島] isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
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[選択] taken from a number by preference; picked out as more valuable or excellent than others; of special value or excellence
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[反省] the pain of a guilty conscience; feeling of deep regret
restless  Speak Example sentences
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[サージ] outburst; roll or be tossed about on waves, as a boat
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[静的] having no motion; being at rest; fixed; stationary
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[落ち着かない] never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; eager for change; discontented
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[配偶者] man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; married person, husband or wife
revolution  Speak Example sentences
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[誹謗中傷] defamation;  false and malicious statement or report about someone
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[テーマ] relating to or caused by heat; designed to help retain heat
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[革命] act of revolving; motion of a body around a fixed point or line; total or radical change in political organization
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[ベンチャー] put at risk; adventure
slander  Speak Example sentences
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[離島] isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
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[革命] act of revolving; motion of a body around a fixed point or line; total or radical change in political organization
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[誹謗中傷] defamation;  false and malicious statement or report about someone
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[糸] woolen thread; the thread of other material, as of cotton or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving
sterling  Speak Example sentences
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[スターリング] any English coin of standard value; coined money
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[船] craft; ship; container for liquids
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[消える] disappear; pass out of sight, especially quickly; die out
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[荒野] a tract of land or region, uncultivated and uninhabited, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert
timber  Speak Example sentences
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[木材] wood; lumber; trees, or wooded land considered as a source of wood
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[古い] having lost freshness; lacking originality or spontaneity
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[誹謗中傷] defamation;  false and malicious statement or report about someone
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[な] adequate; enough; being as much as is needed
touchy  Speak Example sentences
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[破壊] tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive; requiring special tact or skill in handling
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[トレンド] popular taste; the general direction in which something tends to move
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[落ち着かない] never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; eager for change; discontented
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[荒野] a tract of land or region, uncultivated and uninhabited, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert
trend  Speak Example sentences
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[トレンド] popular taste; the general direction in which something tends to move
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[な] adequate; enough; being as much as is needed
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[スパイラル] rotary; curled; moving in a zigzag course; moving in the shape of a coil
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[維持] admit as valid; keep in existence; lengthen or extend in duration or space
turf  Speak Example sentences
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[芝] the surface layer of earth containing a dense growth of grass; territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
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[潮] periodic rise and fall of the sea level
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[無駄] having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying
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[再発] falling back into a former state, especially becoming worse
vegetarian  Speak Example sentences
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[配偶者] man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; married person, husband or wife
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[ベジタリアン] someone who doesn't eat meat or fish usually for religious or moral reasons
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[専門] mention especially; particularize; apply to some specialty or limited object
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[ベンチャー] put at risk; adventure