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  Academic Words Level 5 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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encircle  Speak Example sentences
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[용맹한] fearless; indicating or springing from courage
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[괴로웠던] causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful
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[신속] process fast and efficiently; execute quickly and efficiently
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[에워 싸다] form a circle about; enclose within a circle or ring; surround
epic  Speak Example sentences
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[각주를] a printed note placed below the text on a printed page; add explanatory notes to
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[학원] establish, organize, and set in operation
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[유전] genetics; inheritance; the genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
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[서사] a long heroic poem, or similar work of art
firmament  Speak Example sentences
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[영웅] agitation; chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances
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[끔찍하고] frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; offensive to moral sensibilities; despicable
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[영웅주의] bravery; qualities of hero or heroine
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[창공] fixed foundation; established base; region of the air; sky or heavens; the most remote of the celestial spheres
fiscal  Speak Example sentences
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[의식] exhibiting good judgment or sound thinking; prudent
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[학원] establish, organize, and set in operation
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[괴로웠던] causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful
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[회계] pertaining to the public treasury or revenue; revenue
franchise  Speak Example sentences
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[에워 싸다] form a circle about; enclose within a circle or ring; surround
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[유전] genetics; inheritance; the genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
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[금융] monetary; pertaining or relating to money matters
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[프랜차이즈] a right granted by authority; right to vote; business licensed to sell a product in a particular area
frigid  Speak Example sentences
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[지루한] being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
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[과도] treating all parts or aspects without omission; comprehensive
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[차갑다고] intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner
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[빠져나 가다] avoid cleverly; escape the perception of
frost  Speak Example sentences
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[서리] cover with frost; damage or kill by frost; anger or upset
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[하등의] of lowly origin; not noble in quality, character, or purpose; unworthy
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[홍채] goddess of a rainbow; rainbow; a prismatic play of colors; something that is forming the colored portion of the eye
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[양털] rob; a strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; ask an unreasonable price
gaiety  Speak Example sentences
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[무인기] one who invades; assailant; encroacher; intruder
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[유쾌] merry or joyful activity; festivity; bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery
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[항진] act of exalting or raising high; state of being exalted; elevation
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[서리] cover with frost; damage or kill by frost; anger or upset
heedless  Speak Example sentences
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[기술 부주 의한] unaware, without noticing; unmindful or thoughtless
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[명령한] good-natured; marked by good cheer; cheerful and good-humored
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[지루한] being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
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[안개] fog; mist; partially opaque covering; vague or confused state of mind
heredity  Speak Example sentences
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[과도] treating all parts or aspects without omission; comprehensive
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[유전] genetics; inheritance; the genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
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[각주를] a printed note placed below the text on a printed page; add explanatory notes to
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[차갑다고] intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner