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  Academic Words Level 2 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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recognition  Speak Example sentences
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[협정] deep, inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering; deep distress or misery, as from grief
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[표창] acceptance; an agreement that something is true or legal
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[웨이드] paddle; walk through relatively shallow water
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[고독] state of being alone; seclusion; lonely or secluded place
scarce  Speak Example sentences
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[전사] fighter; combatant; one who is engaged in or experienced in battle
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[구절] writing that is arranged in short lines with a regular rhythm; poetry
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[부족] hard to find; absent or rare; limited
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[번영] careful about money; economical
secret  Speak Example sentences
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[비밀] something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge
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[공석] space or place that is available to be used; emptiness
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[전사] fighter; combatant; one who is engaged in or experienced in battle
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[아픈] affected with the disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health
senator  Speak Example sentences
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[스케줄] professor; a learned person
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[상원 의원] a member of a senate; a member of the king's council; a king's councilor
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[비밀] something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge
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[팁] piece or attachment; end of a pointed or projecting object; a V shape; an indication of potential opportunity
sharpen  Speak Example sentences
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[날카롭게] make pointed; make sharp or sharper
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[상원 의원] a member of a senate; a member of the king's council; a king's councilor
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[번영] careful about money; economical
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[자극] arousing an organism to action
sick  Speak Example sentences
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[표창] acceptance; an agreement that something is true or legal
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[아픈] affected with the disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health
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[관용] showing respect for the rights of others; open-minded; showing the capacity for endurance
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[튼튼한] robust; strong; substantially made or constructed
solitude  Speak Example sentences
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[전신] apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
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[광대] any of numerous herbaceous plants to eat in a meal
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[는 항구] coast; beach; the shore of a sea or ocean
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[고독] state of being alone; seclusion; lonely or secluded place
stimulation  Speak Example sentences
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[비밀] something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge
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[견딜] unendurable; so unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable
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[자극] arousing an organism to action
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[기아] act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
sturdy  Speak Example sentences
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[튼튼한] robust; strong; substantially made or constructed
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[채찍] overlay with other cords going round and round it; take or move by a sudden motion; clean completely
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[니스] deceptively attractive external appearance; paint to coat a surface with a hard, glossy, transparent film
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[불공정] unjust; contrary to laws or conventions, especially in commerce
uncover  Speak Example sentences
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[언로] take something off a container
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[피하���] avoid deliberately; keep away from
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[팁] piece or attachment; end of a pointed or projecting object; a V shape; an indication of potential opportunity
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[밝히기] remove the cover from; expose; disclose