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  Academic Words Level 1 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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afford  Speak Example sentences
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[bê tông] solid mass; covering with cement; hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate, and gravel
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[khả năng] pay; provide; have the financial means for; bear the cost of
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[chịu] drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
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[chính] basic, center,  or most important part; the essence
area  Speak Example sentences
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[hầm] room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground
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[khu vực] a plane surface, as of the floor of a room; open space in a building; the enclosed space; extent; scope; range
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[hợp đồng] constrict; make smaller; compress or concentrate
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[phức tạp] difficult to analyze or understand
bald  Speak Example sentences
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[hói] hairless; lacking a natural or usual covering
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[công giáo] broadly sympathetic; universal; related to Roman Catholic Church
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[xu] make pieces of money from metal; invent or fabricate
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[khách hàng] someone who pays to get goods or services
barn  Speak Example sentences
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[chảy máu] emit blood; lose blood; withdraw blood from the body
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[kết án] the judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief
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[cố gắng] the action of trying at something
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[barn] an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
betray  Speak Example sentences
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[phản bội] be unfaithful; reveal unconsciously or unwillingly
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[khả năng] having the ability required for a specific task
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[chính] basic, center,  or most important part; the essence
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[Kế toán] one who maintains and audits business accounts
bolt  Speak Example sentences
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[chốt] dash or dart off; move or jump suddenly
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[khách hàng] someone who pays to get goods or services
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[quyến rũ] power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness; item worn for its supposed magical benefit
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[tội phạm] find or declare guilty
bother  Speak Example sentences
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[dù sao] in any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event
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[dung] mental or physical ability; ability to accommodate
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[phiền] annoy; trouble; make agitated or nervous; fluster
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[khả năng] pay; provide; have the financial means for; bear the cost of
bud  Speak Example sentences
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[hầm] room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground
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[tầng hầm] cellar; a part of a building that is below the level of the first floor
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[chồi] one that is not yet fully developed; sprout
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[kết án] the judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief
cancel  Speak Example sentences
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[barn] an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
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[vô địch] protect or fight for the first place
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[chày] game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players; ball used in this game
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[hủy bỏ] revoke; call off; omit or delete
capacity  Speak Example sentences
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[phức tạp] difficult to analyze or understand
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[kết án] the judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief
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[biên giới] outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden; margin; verge; brink; boundary
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[dung] mental or physical ability; ability to accommodate