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  Academic Words Level 1 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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abort  Speak Example sentences
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[취소] stop; terminate before completion; terminate a pregnancy
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[책임] move quickly and violently; jump vertically; strive with determination
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[혼동] a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; lack of clarity or order
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[대담] brave; daring; intrepid; impudent
accurate  Speak Example sentences
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[양동이] vessel for drawing up water from a well; a vessel for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain
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[질식] breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; reduce the air supply
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[매력] power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness; item worn for its supposed magical benefit
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[정확] capable of providing a correct reading or measurement; performing with care and precision
backward  Speak Example sentences
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[성가대] band or organized company of singers, especially in church service
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[무서운] causing fear, dread, or terror; extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible
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[뒤로] directed to the back or rear; unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; undeveloped
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[나침반] examine and note the similarities or differences of
barbecue  Speak Example sentences
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[바베큐] a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
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[신청] exert; put into service; avail oneself to
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[청중] a group of people within hearing; crowd seeing a stage performance
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[장] division of a book or treatise; assembly of monks; bishop's council; organized branch of some society
bay  Speak Example sentences
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[뒤로] directed to the back or rear; unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; undeveloped
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[여유] pay; provide; have the financial means for; bear the cost of
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[베이] an inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf; a small body of water set off from the main body
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[외국인] dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
belly  Speak Example sentences
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[입양] accept; take on; raise; take into one's family
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[무서운] causing fear, dread, or terror; extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible
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[경쟁] struggle; rivalry; an act of competing as for a profit prize
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[배] part of the human body which extends downward from breast to thighs, and contains bowels; womb
blame  Speak Example sentences
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[참고 문헌] condemn; rebuke; find fault with; censure
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[채팅] talk without exchanging too much information; informal conversation
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[무서운] causing fear, dread, or terror; extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible
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[나침반] examine and note the similarities or differences of
bond  Speak Example sentences
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[채권] link; connection; uniting force or tie; binding agreement; duty
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[서커스] public entertainment of performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
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[배] part of the human body which extends downward from breast to thighs, and contains bowels; womb
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[신청] exert; put into service; avail oneself to
border  Speak Example sentences
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[테두리] outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden; margin; verge; brink; boundary
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[협조] work or act together toward a common end or purpose
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[턱] the central forward portion of the lower jaw; bottom of the face
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[채팅] talk without exchanging too much information; informal conversation
breeze  Speak Example sentences
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[산들바람] light current of air; gentle wind; progress swiftly and effortlessly
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[혼동] a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; lack of clarity or order
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[소비자] people who buy goods or services
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[용량] mental or physical ability; ability to accommodate