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  Academic Words Level 5 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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expiration  Speak Example sentences
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[만료일] act of coming to a close; termination; the act of breathing out; exhalation
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[엄격한] making severe demands; demanding a lot of effort, care, or attention
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[게이지] standard or scale of measurement; an instrument for measuring or testing
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[사나운] savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty
ferocity  Speak Example sentences
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[생강] plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies
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[사나운] savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty
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[거터] channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; eaves channel; eaves trough
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[히스테리] behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder
frigid  Speak Example sentences
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[미로] maze; the complex structure of interconnecting passages
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[차갑다고] intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner
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[프리깃] originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars; any small vessel on the water
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[과도한] exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly
glimpse  Speak Example sentences
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[망원경] see briefly; catch sight of
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[유산] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
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[배기] wear out completely; tire; drain of resources or properties; deplete; use up completely
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[밧줄] throw overboard; eject from boat, submarine, aircraft, or spaceship
gutter  Speak Example sentences
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[서투른] unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.
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[농담 열렬한 술이 거나하게 취한] be joyous, merry, and mirthful; excite mirth and gayety; keep amused or diverted
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[엄격한] making severe demands; demanding a lot of effort, care, or attention
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[거터] channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; eaves channel; eaves trough
hatchet  Speak Example sentences
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[dreadfully] terribly; with alarm; fearfully
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[잭] untrustworthy person;  deceitful and unreliable scoundrel; a man of humble birth; male servant
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[도끼] short ax used to chop wood
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[과민성] easily annoyed; abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
heath  Speak Example sentences
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[히스] a low shrub, with minute evergreen leaves and handsome clusters of pink flowers
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[떨어졌다] capable of destroying; lethal
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[엄격한] making severe demands; demanding a lot of effort, care, or attention
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[도끼] short ax used to chop wood
hypothetical  Speak Example sentences
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[유산] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
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[과도한] exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly
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[사나운] savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty
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[가정] based on assumptions; supposed
ignoble  Speak Example sentences
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[이미지] ability to form mental images of things or events; figurative writing
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[뚫리지] not able to be entered; beyond understanding
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[망원경] see briefly; catch sight of
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[하등의] of lowly origin; not noble in quality, character, or purpose; unworthy
imagery  Speak Example sentences
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[이미지] ability to form mental images of things or events; figurative writing
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[게이지] standard or scale of measurement; an instrument for measuring or testing
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[과도한] exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly
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[펌블] feel or grope about; make awkward attempts to do or find something; play childishly