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  Academic Words Level 1 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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define  Speak Example sentences
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[拳] hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; closed hand
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[フル] filled to satisfaction with food or drink; containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
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[定義] determine the nature of; give a definition; describe the nature or basic qualities of; explain
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[用事] a short trip that taken to perform a specified task; mission; embassy
desert  Speak Example sentences
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[砂漠] an area with little or no vegetation; forsake; abandon
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[脆弱] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[無効] deprive of capability or effectiveness; unable; impair; diminish
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[総] of huge size; excessively large; coarse; rough; not fine or delicate
disable  Speak Example sentences
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[ギャンブル] play or game for money or other stakes; lose or squander by gaming
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[係] act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into the contest; state of being in gear
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[脆弱] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[無効] deprive of capability or effectiveness; unable; impair; diminish
discipline  Speak Example sentences
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[ギア] toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, to transmit motion or to change speed or direction
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[規律] a trait of being well behaved; an act of punishing; a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
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[ディスカウント] give a reduction in price on
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[排除] eradicate; abolish; rule out
dizzy  Speak Example sentences
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[現在] stream; flow; up-to-date; present
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[融合] union; an act of melting together by heat
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[めまい] having or causing a whirling sensation
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[次世代] all offspring at the same stage from an ancestor; interval between the birth of parents and their offspring
fabric  Speak Example sentences
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[拳] hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; closed hand
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[原因] owed and payable immediately or on-demand; proper and appropriate; fitting
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[ファブリック] cloth; stuff; artifact made by weaving or synthetic fibers; structure; framework
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[気晴らし] extreme mental or emotional disturbance; obsession; confusion of affairs; being drawn apart
fragile  Speak Example sentences
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[相続] a person who inherits some title or office
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[賛成] act of gracious kindness; inclination to approve
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[脆弱] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[極限] outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit
gamble  Speak Example sentences
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[ギャンブル] play or game for money or other stakes; lose or squander by gaming
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[親切] beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
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[クロール] move slowly, as people or animals with the body near the ground
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[エキゾチック] from another part of the world; foreign; strikingly strange or unusual
gracious  Speak Example sentences
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[自我] self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves; exaggerated sense of self-importance
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[整合] quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
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[親切] beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
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[雹] call for; salute; greet; praise vociferously
grief  Speak Example sentences
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[めまい] having or causing a whirling sensation
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[悲しみ] the pain of mind; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends; sorrow; sadness
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[絶望] having lost all hope; dangerous; extremely intense
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[グレード] step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing