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  Academic Words Level 4 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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intrinsic  Speak Example sentences
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[جوهري] relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
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[يقررون إصدار البيان] declare; announce something publicly or officially, especially something positive
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[الفخم] liberal; wasteful; excessive spending
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[تكبير] intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
mackintosh  Speak Example sentences
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[الدائمة] lasting indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; remaining active throughout all the time
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[مادن] waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth
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[البريد] token that postal fee has been paid; charge for mailing something
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[الصباغ] a substance used as coloring; dry coloring matter
mould  Speak Example sentences
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[غزير] producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
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[قوالب] crumbling, soft, friable earth; soil
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[الشثني حيوان] extremely disturbed from emotion
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[السائدة] most frequent or common; having superior power and influence
numerate  Speak Example sentences
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[أحصى] enumerate; count; read according to the rules of numeration
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[مشاة] lacking wit or imagination; ordinary
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[الأرصاد الجوية] earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere; predicting what the weather will be
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[محسوسة] capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable
optimum  Speak Example sentences
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[السائدة] most frequent or common; having superior power and influence
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[تكبير] intensify; increase; make greater in size; enlarge
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[اختياري] most favorable or advantageous
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[مشاة] lacking wit or imagination; ordinary
originate  Speak Example sentences
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[تسود] pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
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[اصلاح] examine or go over carefully for needed repairs; make extensive renovations or revisions on; renovate
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[أصاب بالغثيان ملاحة] wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered
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[تنشأ] initiate; invent; bring into being; create
overt  Speak Example sentences
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[تصوير] depict; describe; draw
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[مهيب] stately; royal; relating to a monarch
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[عملية] practical as opposed to idealistic; concerned with the practical worth or impact of something
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[العلني] open to view; not secret or hidden
painstaking  Speak Example sentences
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[عمودي] proper to be permitted; allowable; admissible.
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[اختياري] most favorable or advantageous
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[محاكاة ساخرة] work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
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[قبولا] extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
pathos  Speak Example sentences
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[التحرش] trouble; disturb; render uneasy; interfere with; vex
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[تجاوز] come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; catch up with; come upon from behind; capture; overcome
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[رثاء] tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
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[متروبوليتان] city center; one who lives in a city center
pessimism  Speak Example sentences
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[تجاوز] come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; catch up with; come upon from behind; capture; overcome
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[التحرش] trouble; disturb; render uneasy; interfere with; vex
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[زيت] make smooth or slippery
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[التشاؤم] the belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess