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  Academic Words Level 4 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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literacy  Speak Example sentences
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steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own
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injurious; tending to cause death; disposed to do evil
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reading and writing; ability to read and write
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acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
loath  Speak Example sentences
2
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pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
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impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous
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a fixed point supporting something that turns or balances; focus or center
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unwilling or reluctant; filled with disgust or aversion; dislike
meagre  Speak Example sentences
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make smooth or slippery
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injurious; tending to cause death; disposed to do evil
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a fixed point supporting something that turns or balances; focus or center
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deficient in amount, quality, or extent; having little flesh; lean; scanty or inadequate
necessitate  Speak Example sentences
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make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable
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flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
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producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
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confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve
nominal  Speak Example sentences
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the season of the heavy rain that falls during the summer in hot Asian countries
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deficient in amount, quality, or extent; having little flesh; lean; scanty or inadequate
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ban; taboo; forbid
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in name only; insignificantly small
notation  Speak Example sentences
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checking perpendicularity; exactly vertical
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excuse; something serving to conceal plans; the fictitious reason
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acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
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technical system of symbols used to represent special things; comment or instruction
nourish  Speak Example sentences
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lasting indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; remaining active throughout all the time
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provide with nourishment; provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth
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warm-blooded vertebrate having skin covered with hair
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make necessary or indispensable; render unavoidable
obedient  Speak Example sentences
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ban; taboo; forbid
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the subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command
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provide with nourishment; provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth
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so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded
observance  Speak Example sentences
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excuse; something serving to conceal plans; the fictitious reason
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act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; an act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect
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technical system of symbols used to represent special things; comment or instruction
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flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
overwrought  Speak Example sentences
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peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
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extremely disturbed from emotion
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someone engaged in a profession as law, medicine
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strong protest or objection; loud cry or clamor