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  Academic Words Level 4 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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languid  Speak Example sentences
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powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry
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state of being predisposed; tendency or inclination
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the season of the heavy rain that falls during the summer in hot Asian countries
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lacking energy or vitality; weak; sluggish; lacking spirit or liveliness
laudable  Speak Example sentences
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capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
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officially suggest someone for an election, job, position, or honor
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deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
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turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position, order, or condition of
malleable  Speak Example sentences
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beginner; person new to a field or activity
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capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
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moment of calm; a period of calm weather; temporary quiet and rest
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story; art, technique, or process of telling a story
mobilize  Speak Example sentences
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assemble, prepare, or put into operation for or as if for war; make mobile or capable of movement
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lacking energy or vitality; weak; sluggish; lacking spirit or liveliness
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a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
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deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
nostalgia  Speak Example sentences
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acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
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homesickness; bittersweet longing for things of past
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turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position, order, or condition of
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introduction, usually to a poem or play
novice  Speak Example sentences
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without planning or thinking ahead; right away; immediately
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threatening; foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
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beginner; person new to a field or activity
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work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of
oblique  Speak Example sentences
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having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined
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threatening; foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
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a chemical used to kill pests
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acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
ominous  Speak Example sentences
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threatening; foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
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extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
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lacking energy or vitality; weak; sluggish; lacking spirit or liveliness
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be balanced or held in suspension; hover; carry or hold in equilibrium; balance
palatable  Speak Example sentences
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officially suggest someone for an election, job, position, or honor
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acceptable; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten
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something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay
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vertical; upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; too steep
perpendicular  Speak Example sentences
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vertical; upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; too steep
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relatively distant or remote from a center or middle
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something apparently contradictory in nature; a statement that looks false but is actually correct
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introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface