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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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restrictive  Speak Example sentences
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[とりとめ] tending to improve; beneficial; favorable to health
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[ワン] having a pale or sickly color; unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress
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[打ち上げ花火] increase rapidly; rise quickly; soar
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[制限] tending or serving to restrict; limiting; confining
retroactive  Speak Example sentences
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[樹液] the liquid that carries food to all parts of a plant; essential bodily fluid
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[宇宙船] a vehicle for traveling in space
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[遡及] extending in scope or effect to a prior time or prior conditions
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[嫌悪] extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense
sap  Speak Example sentences
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[投機] examination by the eye; intellectual check; business venture in unusual risks, with a chance for large profits
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[樹液] the liquid that carries food to all parts of a plant; essential bodily fluid
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[唾液] utter or emit low dull sounds; move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound
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[ジャスト] a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed
shuffle  Speak Example sentences
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[シャッフル] disorder; move back and forth; mix to make a random order or arrangement
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[制限] tending or serving to restrict; limiting; confining
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[株] pull, draw, or stretch tight; injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; stretch or force beyond the proper
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[遡及] extending in scope or effect to a prior time or prior conditions
spaceship  Speak Example sentences
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[象徴] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations
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[宇宙船] spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space
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[嫌悪] extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense
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[レスリング] sport in which two competitors attempt to throw or immobilize each other by grappling
speculation  Speak Example sentences
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[主食] principal raw material or commodity produced in a region; principal element
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[対照] bare; empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary
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[投機] examination by the eye; intellectual check; business venture in unusual risks, with a chance for large profits
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[タペストリー] a heavy textile with a woven design
stab  Speak Example sentences
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[刺し] pierce with a pointed weapon; wound or kill by a pointed instrument
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[対照] bare; empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary
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[トラッパー] one who sets devices to catch animals
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[象徴] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations
stark  Speak Example sentences
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[対照] bare; empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary
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[豚] any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestic species; pig
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[制限] tending or serving to restrict; limiting; confining
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[勇敢] vigorous in the body; strong; powerful; performed with valor or bravery; heroic
symbolism  Speak Example sentences
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[宇宙船] a vehicle for traveling in space
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[象徴] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations
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[戦争] military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies
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[イバラ] prickly; having or covered with protective barbs
thorny  Speak Example sentences
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[イバラ] prickly; having or covered with protective barbs
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[郊外] outskirts; usually residential area or community outlying a city
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[代名詞] having the same or a similar meaning; identical; equivalent
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[ワープ] cause something or someone to no longer do what is usual or right; state of being twisted or bent out of shape