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  Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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laurels  Speak Example sentences
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[口頭傳說,學問,知識] legend; wisdom; knowledge acquired through education or experience
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[桂冠,榮譽] honors conferred for some notable achievement; credit
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[豐富的,富足的,豐富多彩,肥沃的] abundant; rich and splendid; fertile
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[小刺,刺痛刺傷,戳穿] penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing
linguistics  Speak Example sentences
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[及具毀滅性的] very destructive; tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly
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[解說,告訴,重新數] narrate or tell; count over again
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[語言學] humanistic study of language and literature
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[定位(在社會上)] position relative to points of directions; course introducing a new situation
litter  Speak Example sentences
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[磨坊主人] one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill; milling machine
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[使平靜,哄騙,使安靜] cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm; deceive into trustfulness; become calm
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[亂丟] disorderly accumulation of objects; carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper
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[衣服] clothing; garments; dress; garb; costume
lure  Speak Example sentences
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[開拓] open up an area or prepare a way; settle a region
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[引誘,誘惑物] something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward; attraction or appeal
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[多種的,混雜的] mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous
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[磨坊主人] one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill; milling machine
maxim  Speak Example sentences
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[魔術的,不可思議的] possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
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[不適,欠佳] general sense of depression or unease; vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness
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[至理名言,格言] proverb; formulation of fundamental principle or general truth
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[小刺,刺痛刺傷,戳穿] penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing
metabolism  Speak Example sentences
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[錢的,貨幣的] relating to money; requiring payment of money
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[衣服] clothing; garments; dress; garb; costume
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[新陳代謝] chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism to the maintenance of life
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[至理名言,格言] proverb; formulation of fundamental principle or general truth
mince  Speak Example sentences
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[桂冠,榮譽] honors conferred for some notable achievement; credit
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[磨坊主人] one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill; milling machine
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[敏捷的,靈活的] light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift
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[切碎,小步走路] cut into very small pieces; chop fine; suppress or weaken the force of
morsel  Speak Example sentences
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[一小塊(食物),小量] a little bite or bit of food; a small quantity; a little piece; a fragment
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[引誘,誘惑物] something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward; attraction or appeal
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[放棄,斷絕關係] abandon; disown; turn away from; give up
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[小刺,刺痛刺傷,戳穿] penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing
nimble  Speak Example sentences
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[敏捷的,靈活的] light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift
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[使平靜,哄騙,使安靜] cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm; deceive into trustfulness; become calm
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[桂冠,榮譽] honors conferred for some notable achievement; credit
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[招待員] secretary whose primary duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
overlapping  Speak Example sentences
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[開拓] open up an area or prepare a way; settle a region
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[豐富的,富足的,豐富多彩,肥沃的] abundant; rich and splendid; fertile
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[磨坊主人] one who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill; milling machine
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[交迭(的)] covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another