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  Academic Words Level 4 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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disdain  Speak Example sentences
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[移民] one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native
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[軽蔑は] view with scorn or contempt; feel with aversion
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[退屈] lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull
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[誤謬] deceptive or false appearance; false notion; deception
drench  Speak Example sentences
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[損なう] injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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[装備] supply with necessities such as tools or provisions; furnish with the qualities necessary for the performance
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[水薬] wet through and through; soak; put potion down the throat of; steep in moisture; wet thoroughly
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[退屈] lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull
embargo  Speak Example sentences
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[distendは] swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure
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[禁輸] ban on commerce or other activity
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[経過] slip or glide away; pass away silently
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[あおる] arouse to action; motivate; induce to exist
embody  Speak Example sentences
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[侵食] corrosion; a gradual decline of something
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[固有] firmly established by nature or habit
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[退屈] lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull
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[を具現化] give a bodily form to; represent in a bodily or material form; incorporate
enclosure  Speak Example sentences
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[損なう] injure or hurt; become worse; affect negatively
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[除外] leave out of; keep out of; reject
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[筐体] a place where animals are kept
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[伝える] reveal or tell; grant a share of; bestow
excerpt  Speak Example sentences
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[暗黙] implied or understood though not directly expressed
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[侵食] corrosion; a gradual decline of something
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[抜粋] passage or segment that is taken from a longer work, such as literary or musical composition
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[繊維] slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure
exclude  Speak Example sentences
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[除外] leave out of; keep out of; reject
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[味] the quality produced by the sensation of taste; a variety of tastes attributed to an object
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[こだわり] difficult to please; having complicated requirements; excessively particular demanding about details
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[筐体] a place where animals are kept
explicit  Speak Example sentences
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[明示] precisely and clearly expressed; definite; outspoken
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[はかない] short-lived; enduring a very short time
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[乾燥] dry period; aridity; a long period of abnormally low rainfall
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[誤謬] deceptive or false appearance; false notion; deception
fervent  Speak Example sentences
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[有罪] association of people belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits;  business corporation
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[熱心な] extremely hot; sincerely or intensely felt
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[伝える] reveal or tell; grant a share of; bestow
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[除外] leave out of; keep out of; reject
gaunt  Speak Example sentences
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[distendは] swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure
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[やせ] very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold; barren
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[筐体] a place where animals are kept
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[悪化] increase severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate