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  Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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legacy  Speak Example sentences
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[광택] giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having a brilliant surface
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[다행] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
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[유산] a gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor
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[보충] fill or make complete again; add a new stock or supply to
lurid  Speak Example sentences
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[병원균] a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
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[참가자] grant made by the government to creator the sole right; invention protected by grant
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[애처로운] causing shock or horror; gruesome
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[재발] act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return
mare  Speak Example sentences
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[암컷] female of horse and other equine quadrupeds; sighing, suffocative panting, with a sense of pressure across the chest
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[명칭] narrate or tell; count over again
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[참가자] grant made by the government to creator the sole right; invention protected by grant
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[광택] giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having a brilliant surface
miniature  Speak Example sentences
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[미니어처] painting or drawing included in a book; copy or model that represents in a greatly reduced size
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[임신] condition of being pregnant; fruitfulness; fertility
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[풍채] being nothing more than what is specified; considered apart from anything else; small; slight
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[보너스] act of redeeming or condition of having been redeemed; rescue upon payment of ransom
paltry  Speak Example sentences
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[화분] the fine granular substance produced in flowers; fine bran or flour
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[로렐] evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus, having aromatic leaves, with clusters of small, yellowish-white flowers
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[파] amount or level considered to be average; standard; equality of status, level, or value
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[보잘것] insignificant; lacking in importance or worth; worthless
peripheral  Speak Example sentences
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[임신] condition of being pregnant; fruitfulness; fertility
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[전당포] something given as security for a loan; pledge or guaranty; article deposited as security
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[주변 기기] located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
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[명예 훼손] defamatory statement; the act of writing something that smears a person's character
persecution  Speak Example sentences
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[박해가] unfair or cruel treatment over a long period of time because of race, religion, or political beliefs
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[로렐] evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus, having aromatic leaves, with clusters of small, yellowish-white flowers
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[화분] the fine granular substance produced in flowers; fine bran or flour
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[파] amount or level considered to be average; standard; equality of status, level, or value
pious  Speak Example sentences
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[오크] any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus; durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs
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[미끼] something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward; attraction or appeal
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[경건한] devout; religious; exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality
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[회상] recollection; process of remembering
ply  Speak Example sentences
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[플라이] bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
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[녹은] made liquid by heat; glowing red-hot; being in a state of fusion
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[미치광이] insane; mad; wildly or giddily foolish
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[혈통] direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry
pregnancy  Speak Example sentences
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[다행] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
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[재발] act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return
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[임신] condition of being pregnant; fruitfulness; fertility
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[신중] quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; good judgment