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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Matching Quizzes
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[荒蕪的,貧瘠的] desolate; fruitless and unproductive; lacking
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[刺激,使活動] make active or more active; stimulate; make radioactive
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[屏障,障礙,柵欄] obstacle; structure built to bar passage; boundary or limit
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[爭論,辯論] contentious speech act; argument
advocate  Speak Example sentences
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[足夠的,充實的] sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
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[辯護] speak, plead, or argue in favor of; plead for; push for something
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[習慣,傳統,慣例] tradition; practice followed by people of a particular group or region
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[刺激,使活動] make active or more active; stimulate; make radioactive
archives  Speak Example sentences
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[繃帶,用繃帶包紮] a strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds
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[檔案,檔案館] public records; place where public records are kept
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[貢奉,奉獻] set apart for a deity or special purposes; devote; consecrate
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[板球運動,蟋蟀] outdoor game played with bats, a ball, and wickets by two teams of 11 players each
asylum  Speak Example sentences
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[庇護所] place of refuge or shelter; protection
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[讓步] act of yielding; point yielded; acknowledgment or admission
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[辯護] speak, plead, or argue in favor of; plead for; push for something
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[完全的,最終的] final; complete; precisely defined or explicit
ballot  Speak Example sentences
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[招待,食宿,適應] do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
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[成分] element; ingredient; abstract part of something
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[漂亮的,時髦的] good form; style; elegance under being fashionable
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[選票,投票數,投票,表決] printed or written ticket used in voting; the act of voting; the whole number of votes cast at an election
bleak  Speak Example sentences
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[迎合] supply what is needed or desired; provide food professionally for a special occasion
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[改變,轉換,皈依] change something into another form; transform
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[檔案,檔案館] public records; place where public records are kept
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[陰冷的,寒冷的,沒有指望的,令人沮喪的] cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable
blunt  Speak Example sentences
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[人口調查,人口普查] official examination of the details of a country's population
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[鈍的,直率的,不客氣的,使變鈍] having a dull edge or end; not sharp; lacking in feeling; insensitive
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[迎合] supply what is needed or desired; provide food professionally for a special occasion
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[繃帶,用繃帶包紮] a strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds
carve  Speak Example sentences
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[粉碎,崩潰] break into small pieces; cause to fall in pieces
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[切開,雕刻] make something by cutting into especially wood or stone; sculpt
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[開始,構思] beginning; forming of an idea; an act of conceiving
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[陰冷的,寒冷的,沒有指望的,令人沮喪的] cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable
circumstance  Speak Example sentences
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[荒蕪的,貧瘠的] desolate; fruitless and unproductive; lacking
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[環境,情況] situation; condition; detail accompanying or surrounding an event
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[清楚] clearness of thought or style; brightness; splendor
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[庇護所] place of refuge or shelter; protection
collision  Speak Example sentences
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[漂亮的,時髦的] good form; style; elegance under being fashionable
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[選票,投票數,投票,表決] printed or written ticket used in voting; the act of voting; the whole number of votes cast at an election
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[碰撞,衝突,抵觸] crash; conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
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[屏障,障礙,柵欄] obstacle; structure built to bar passage; boundary or limit