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Long standing |
Having continued or existed for a long time. |
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Modulate |
To change a process or activity to make it more controlled, slower, less strong, etc. |
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Metastable |
Theoritically stable but so long lived as to be stable for practical purposes. |
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Manipulate |
To work skillfully with information, system, stc. To achieve the result that you want. |
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Mannerism |
A way of speaking or moving that is typical of a particular person. |
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Mystery |
An event, situation, etc. That people do not understand or cannot explain, because they do not know about it. |
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Monk |
A member of an all male religious group that lives apart from other people. |
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Manner |
The way in which some thing is done or happens |
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Medal |
Award Prize |
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Motivation |
An eagerness and willingness to do something without needing to be told or forced. |
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Multiple |
Several Numerous A lot of |
Adjective Baxter was rushed to the hospital with multiple stab wounds. |
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Malleable |
Something that is malleable is easy to press or pull into a new shape. |
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Milestone |
Turning point |
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Metropolitan |
Relating or belonging to a very large city. |
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Negligible |
Too slight or unimportant to have any effects. |
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Narrow minded |
Not willing to or tolerate people's views, prejudiced. |
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Numeracy |
The ability to do calculations and understand simple mathematics. |
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Nasal |
A sound or voice that is nasal comes mainly through your nose. |
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Notorious |
Famous or well known for something bad. Syn: infamous |
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Neglect |
Ignore |
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Nurture |
The education and care that you are given as a child, and the way it affects your later development and attitudes. |
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Off color |
Sexually offensive |
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Obnoxious |
Very offensive, unpleasant or rude. |
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Obscure |
Unclear, vague, difficult to understand. |
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Outlook |
General attitude toward life |
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Orthogonal |
Of varieties Statistically independent |
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Overcome |
Unable to act or think in the usual way. |
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Orchestral |
Relating to or written for an orchestra |
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Orchestrate |
To arrange a piece of music so that it can be played by an orchestra |
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Orchestra |
A large group of musicians playing many different kinds of instruments and led by a conductor. |
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Originate |
To come from a place or starts in a particular situation. |
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Ochre |
A type of reddish yellow earth used in paints. |
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Origin |
The place or situation in which something begins to exist. |
Noun A new theory to explain the origins of the universe |
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Original |
A work of art or document that is not a copy, but is the one that produced by the writer or artist. |
Noun The colors are much more striking in the original |
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Overemphatic |
Uttered with or marked by excessive or extreme emphasis. |
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Overdue |
Something that is overdue should have happened or been done a long time ago |
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Provision |
When you provide something that someone needs now or in future. |
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Promote |
Persuade To try to persuade people to support or use something |
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Podium |
A small raised area for a performer, speaker or musical conductor to stand on. |
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Parasitic |
پارازیتی |
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Prone |
Li,ely to do something or suffer from something |
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Prospective |
Someone who is likely to do a particular thing or achieve a particular position |
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Pushy |
Someone who is pushy does something they can to get what they want from other people. |
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Peripheral |
Peripheral equipment can be connected to a computer and used with it. |
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Pearl |
A small round with object that forms inside an OYSTER and is valuable jewel |
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Predecessor |
A machine, system, etc. That existed before another one in a process of development. Opposite: successor. |
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Philosophy |
The study of the nature and meaning of existence, truth good and evil. |
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Pace |
The speed at which something happens or is done |
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Pollutant |
A substance that makes air, water, soil, etc dangerously dirty and caused by cars , factories, etc. |
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Preserve |
A substance made from boiling fruit or vegetables with sugar salt or vinegar |
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Pursue |
To work hard in order to achieve or get something |
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Prosperity |
When people have money and everything that is needed for a good life. |
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Priority |
Important thing |
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Preserve |
To make something continue without changing |
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Pollution |
Things that make the environment dirty. |
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Planet |
A very large round object in space that moves around the sun or another star. |
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Perceptive |
Having or showing sensitive insight |
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Perceptible |
Something that is perceptible can be notices, although it is small |
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Perceptiveness |
The quality of being very good at noticing and understanding things that many people do not notice |
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Personality |
Someone's character especially the way the person behaves toward others |
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Perception |
The way that you notice things with your senses of sight, hearing, etc. |
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Peer |
Friend Classmate |
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Presence |
The existence of someone or something in a particular place |
Noun Your presence is required at the club meeting on Friday. |
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Primary |
Chief Major Main |
Adjective Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and health care. |
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Possess |
Own Have Belong to |
Verb transitive Neither of them possessed a credit card. |
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Prominent |
Famous Well known |
Adjective A prominent russian scientist. |
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Portrayal |
Representation Description |
Noun The newspapers portrayal of Islamic culture |
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Peak |
To reach the highest point or level. |
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Probation |
A system that allows some criminals not to go to prison or to leave prison. |
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Pandemic |
A disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world |
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Pigments |
A natural substance that makes skin, hair, plants, etc. !, a particular colour. |
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Pediatrician |
A doctor who deals with children and their illnesses |
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Qualification |
If you have a qualification, you have passed an examination or course to show you have particular level of skill or knowledge in a subject. |
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Reminiscent |
Reminding you of something |
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Remorse |
A strong feeling of being sorry that you have done something very bad. Regret |
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Revolution |
A circular movement around something |
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Regulation |
Control over something especially by roles |
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Review |
Evaluation Assessment Description |
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Restraint |
Calm sensible controlled behaviour especially in a situation when it is difficult to stay calm Self control |
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Rural |
Relating to the country not the city. |
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Relevant |
Directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed |
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Rose |
A flower that often has a pleasant smell |
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Revival |
When something becomes active or strong again |
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Refined |
Improved in order to make something more effective |
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Recursiveness |
Pertaining or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly |
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Rythm |
A regular, repeated pattern of sound or movement |
Noun Complicated dance rhythms |
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Respiration |
The action of breathing |
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Resentful |
Feeling angry and upset about something that you think is unfair Bitter |
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Reticent |
Unwilling to talk about what you feel or what you know. Synonym reserved |
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Reluctance |
When someone is unwilling to do something or when they do something slowly to show that they are not very willing |
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Refined |
A method or process that is refined has been improved to make it more effective |
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Reignited |
Catch fire or cause to catch fire. |
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Rhino |
A large heavy african or asian animal with thick skin and either one or two horns on its nose. |
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Resonate |
If something such as an event or a message resonates, it seems important or good to people or continues to do this. |
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Sphere |
A particular area of activity, work, etc. |
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Scintillator |
جرقه زننده |
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Showcase |
An event or situation that is designed to show the good qualities of a person, organization, product,etc. |
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Servo |
A part of a machine which passes on or increases a force or movement |
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Steak tartare |
Steak that is cut into very small pieces and eaten raw, usually with a row egg. |
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Steakhouse |
A restaurant that serves steak |
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Steak |
A large thick piece of good quality red meat |
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Spoil |
To have a bad effect on something so that it is no longer attractive, enjoyable, useful, etc. |
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Strive |
Make very effort try hard. |
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Sparkling |
Shining brightly with points of flashing light. |
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Spontaneously |
Without planning suddenly |
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Sniff |
Smell Breathe in |
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Simultaneous |
At the same time All at once |
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Seep |
Leak Flow slowly |
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Symbolic |
A symbolic action is important because of what it represents but may not have any real effects. |
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Symbolism |
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
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Symbolize |
If something symbolises a quality, feeling, etc., it represents it. |
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Sybolically |
Representing Something important |
Adverb Each element of the ceremony has a symbolic meaning. |
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Starvation |
Suffering or death caused by lack of food |
Noun People dying of starvation |
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Sustainable |
Able to continue without causing damage to environment |
Adjective The government should do more to promote sustainable agriculture. |
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Sustain |
Continue to exist or happen for a period of time Synonym maintain |
Verb She found it difficult to sustain the children's interest. |
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Stigma |
A strong feeling in society that being in a particular situation or having a particular illness is something to be ashamed of. |
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Stand on ceremony |
Insist on the observance of formalities |
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There is a lot at stake |
If something that you value very much is at stake you will lose it, if a plan or action is not successful. |
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Substantially |
Very much or a lot. Synonym considerably |
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Stray |
To move away from the place you should be |
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Subset |
A group of people or things that is part of a larger group of people or things. |
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Tailor |
To make something so that it is exactly right for someone's particular needs or for a particular purpose. |
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Traits |
Formal A particular quality in someone's character. |
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Touchy |
Easily becoming offended or annoyed Synonym sensitive |
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Talkative |
Someone who is talkative talks a lot Opposite quiet |
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Turban |
A large piece of cloth that you wind tightly around your head. |
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Trough |
The hollow area between two waves |
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Trough |
The hollow area between two waves |
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Therapeutic |
Making you feel calm and relaxed |
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Thrill seeker |
Someone who does things that are dangerous because they like the feeling of excitement it gives them. |
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Thrill |
Excitement Pleasure Adventure |
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Theraphy |
Treatment that helps someone feel better or grow stronger. |
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Tandem |
In tandem : Doing something together or at the sometime as someone or something else. |
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Tackle |
To deal with a difficult problem |
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Trivial |
Not valuable Unimportant |
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Topological |
Relating to topology The way in which constituent parts are interrelated or arranged |
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Tension |
A nervous feeling that makes it impossible to relax |
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Thus |
Therefore so |
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Throat |
The area at the back of your mouth and inside your neck |
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Tongue |
The soft part inside your mouth that you can move around and use for eating and speaking. |
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Thriving |
A thriving company, business etc is very successful. Synonym: flourishing |
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Tactful |
Not likely to upset or embrass other people. Opposite tactless |
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Tactful |
Having or showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficulties |
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Thus |
As a result of something that you have just mentioned |
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Ubiquitous |
Seeming to be every where, sometimes used humorously |
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Unveil |
To show or tell people about a new product or plan for the first time |
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Uniquely |
Individually Distinctively Exclusively |
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Unveiled |
To show or tell people about a new product or plan for the first time. |
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Unethical |
Morally unacceptable |
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Valve |
A part of a table that opens shuts like door to control the flow of liquid, gas, air, etc. Passing through it. |
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Validate |
To prove that something is true or correct or to make a document or agreement officially and legally acceptable Confirm |
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Versatile |
Having many different uses. |
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Velocity |
The speed of something that is moving in a particular direction. |
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Vastly |
Very much |
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Verbal |
Oral spoken Voiced |
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Vice |
Bad habit or illegal activity |
Noun Smoking is my only vice |
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Vault |
A room with thick walls and a strong door where money, jewels etc are kept to prevent them from being stolen or damaged |
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Withhold |
To refuse to give someone something |
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Windmill |
A building or structure with parts that turn around in the wind used for producing electrical power on crushing grain. |
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Wothwhile |
Valuable Meaningful |
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Wobbly |
Shaky Unstable |
Adjective A wobbly table |
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Wither |
To gradually become weaker or less successful and then end. |
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Watercolors |
A type of paint that you mix with water. |
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Warfare |
The activity of fighting in a war Used especially when talking about particular methods of fighting |
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Be starving Be straved |
To be very hungry |
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Get to |
Annoy or upset |
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Put behind you |
Stop being upset by |
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Be taken in |
Be fooled |
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Go by |
Take into consideration |
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Pick up on |
Notice |
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Be of great importance |
Be essential |
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Be close to |
Be near |
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Talk into doing |
Persuade |
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Dawn on |
If a feeling or idea dawns, you have it for the first time |
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Play dowm |
Minimize |
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Come down to |
Is a matter of fact |
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Go about it |
Proceed |
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Give them away |
Show their true feeling |
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Present somebody with something |
To give something to someone especially formally at a ceremony. |
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Hit it off |
Get along Be naturally Friendly |
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Give in |
Accept that you cannot win |
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E at the heart of |
Be the key to |
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Have to do with |
Relate to |
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Pick out |
Choose |
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Go someway toward |
Help Make progress with |
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Would do well to |
Should Be advised to |
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Shape up |
To improve your behaviour or work To make progress in a particular way |
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Spare somebody's feeling |
To avoid doing something that would upset someone |
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Get carried away |
Lose self control |
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Turn to |
Get to Approach |
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Turn around |
Make something better |
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Turn out |
Become apparent |
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Turn back the clock |
Go back in time |
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Turn down |
Refuse |
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Turning point |
A moment of change |
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Turn a blind eye |
Ignore |
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Turn over a new leaf |
Stop a bad habit |
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Turn into |
Become |
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Turn somebody back on something |
Stop being involved. |
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