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  Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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lull  Speak Example sentences
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[هدوء] cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm; deceive into trustfulness; become calm
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[روعة] grandeur; splendor; grand or imposing beauty
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[الرداءة حورية البحر] being nothing more than what is specified; considered apart from anything else; small; slight
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[الجماهير] the ordinary people who live in a particular country or place
marshy  Speak Example sentences
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[تأجير] amount paid or collected as rent; the act of renting
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[خريطة] muddy; swampy; resembling a marsh; boggy; soft and watery
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[هدوء] cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm; deceive into trustfulness; become calm
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[ذكيا] light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift
masonry  Speak Example sentences
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[الثابتة] lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of
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[المستنقعات] the craft of a construction worker;  structure built of stone or brick
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[المتمردين] revolt; resist or defy an authority; break with established customs
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[معلقة] not yet decided or settled; awaiting conclusion or confirmation
millennium  Speak Example sentences
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[آلاف السنين] a span of one thousand years; a thousandth anniversary
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[المستنقعات] the craft of a construction worker;  structure built of stone or brick
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[روعة] grandeur; splendor; grand or imposing beauty
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[المعروف] in a way that is famous for something bad
miller  Speak Example sentences
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[غريبة] unconventional; strikingly unfamiliar; located far from civilized areas
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[خريطة] muddy; swampy; resembling a marsh; boggy; soft and watery
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[بلل] lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of; preside over
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[ميلر] one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill; milling machine
moderate  Speak Example sentences
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[تكرار] act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return
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[المصالحة] act of reconciling, or state of being reconciled; reconcilement; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship
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[العقوبات] subject to punishment by law
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[بلل] lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of; preside over
mortar  Speak Example sentences
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[المهر] a small horse;  small glass of beer; word for word translation of a foreign language text
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[هاون] a vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle; machine in which materials are ground and blended
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[الاسمية الرق] the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animals, prepared for writing on
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[هطول] unexpected acceleration or hastening; the quantity of water falling to earth
notoriously  Speak Example sentences
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[المعروف] in a way that is famous for something bad
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[معلقة] not yet decided or settled; awaiting conclusion or confirmation
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[الغضب] offend grossly against; produce anger or resentment in
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[رائحة] scent; property or quality of a thing that affects, stimulates or is perceived by the sense of smell
peninsula  Speak Example sentences
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[هامشية] of or pertaining to a margin; written or printed in the margin
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[فاحش] overprice; a price that is too high
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[شبه جزيرة] a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land
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[الاسمية الرق] the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animals, prepared for writing on
physiology  Speak Example sentences
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[المدعي العام] one who carries out legal action, especially criminal proceedings; one who prosecutes any purpose, plan, or business
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[المهر] a small horse;  small glass of beer; word for word translation of a foreign language text
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[علم وظائف الأعضاء] branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms
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[تلقح] fertilize by transferring pollen