Engl 103 - Chapter 1 - Definition

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Relating to education, especially at college or university level

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Academic

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A place for someone to stay, live or work

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Accommodation

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The state of being active

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Activity

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A fully-grown person, or one who is considered to be legally responsible for their actions

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Adult

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Something ( such as a good position or condition) that helps to make someone or something better or more likely to succeed than others

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Advantage

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An opinion or suggestion about what someone should do

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Advice

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Feeling fear; worried that something will cause pain or harm

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Afraid

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Something that makes a place comfortable or easy to live in

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Amenity

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The way that someone or something looks

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Appearance

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The way in which something is organized

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Arrangement

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To go to an event, meeting, class, etc.

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Attend

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The way you think or feel about someone or something and that affects your behavior

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Attitude

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Someone who has written something ( e.g. book, article, etc. )

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Author

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Easy or possible to get or use

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Available

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The experiences, knowledge, education, etc. In a person's past

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Background

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A strongly held opinion about something; an idea you believe to be true

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Belief

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Better than all others in quality or value

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Best

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Providing someone with daily meals and a place to live in exchange for money

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Boarding

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To be concerned about or interested in what happens to someone

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Care about

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To make something happen; to lead to something

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Cause

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Something that tests strength, skill, or ability, especially in a way that is interesting

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Challenge

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The opportunity or power to make a decision

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Choice

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To make a choice or decision

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Choose

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The practice of keeping yourself or the things around you clean

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Cleanliness

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A state or situation in which you are relaxed and don't have any physically unpleasant feelings such as pain, heat, cold, etc.

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Comfort

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Happening often and to many people or in many places; belonging to or shared by everyone in a society

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Common

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Shared or used by members of a group or community

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Communal

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A group of people with a common interest living in one place

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Community

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The state or condition of being with another person

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Company

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Thinking about the rights and feelings of other people; showing kindness toward other people

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Considerate

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The words that come just before or after a word or sentence and that help you understand its meaning

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Context

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An opinion or decision made after consider all the information

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Conclusion

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To think about something carefully, especially before making a choice or decision

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Consider

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A business or organization owned equally by all the people working there

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Cooperative

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To make or produce something; to cause something new to exist

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Create

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A large group of people who are together in one place

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Crowd

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Filled with too many people or things

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Crowded

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The beliefs, way of life, art, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a particular society

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Culture

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Able or likely to cause injury, pain, harm, etc.

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Dangerous

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A sum of money that a person or organization owes

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Debt

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To make a choice or judgment about something

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Decide

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To explain a word or idea clearly and completely

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Define

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To say what something or someone is like by giving details

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Describe

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A way in which people or things are not like each other

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Difference

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Not like something or someone else, or not like before

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Different

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Said or done in a clear and honest way

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Direct

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Not clean

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Dirty

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Something that causes difficulty, or something that makes someone or something worse or less likely to succeed than others

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Disadvantage

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To separate something into two or more parts

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Divide

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The way in which an event, action, or person changes someone or something

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Effect

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As many or as much as is needed or wanted

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Enough

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To make certain that something will happen

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Ensure

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Used to emphasize something or show that it deserves special mention

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Especially

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Extremely important or necessary

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Essential

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A planned occasion or activity such as a performance, sports competition, party, etc.

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Event

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A reason that you give to explain a mistake, bad behavior, etc.

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Excuse

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The amount of money needed to buy something

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Expense

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Costing a lot of money

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Expensive

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Knowledge or skill that you gain from doing a job or activity

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Experience

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To discuss or think about something carefully

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Explore

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Something that is built for a particular purpose (room, equipment, building, etc. )

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Facility

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An interesting or important part, quality, ability, etc.

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Feature

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Used to introduce a final statement or the last in a series of things

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Finally

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A club for male students at some universities

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Fraternity

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A person who you like and enjoy being with; a person who helps or supports you

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Friend

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Extremely; very much

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Greatly

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Something that a person does often in a regular and repeated way

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Habit

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A college or university building where students live

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Hall

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Damage, injury, or trouble caused by someone's actions or by an event

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Harm

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A useful piece of advice about how to do something

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Hint

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Good and truthful; not lying, cheating, or stealing

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Honest

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A thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do

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Idea

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To think of or create something in your mind

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Imagine

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In truth ( used to stress that a statement is true although it may be surprising or unlikely)

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In fact

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The freedom and ability to make decisions without outside control or support

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Independence

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To give information

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Inform

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Not confident about yourself or your ability to do things well; nervous and uncomfortable

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Insecure

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An established organization

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Institution

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An activity or subject that you enjoy

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Interest

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Relating to or involving more than one nation

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International

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An individual thing; a separate part or thing in a list or group

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Item

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A particular way of living, including the place people live in, the things they own, the jobs they do, and the activities they enjoy

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Lifestyle

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The position of something

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Location

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Unhappy because you are alone or do not have anyone to talk to

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Lonely

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To try to find something or someone

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Look for

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A condition or situation of great comfort, ease, and wealth; something that is expensive and not necessary

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Luxury

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Most important

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Main

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The main subject that a student studies at college

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Major

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To put two people or things together that are similar to or connected with each other

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Match

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Very enjoyable or unusual; worth remembering

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Memorable

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Something that is remembered

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Memory

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Not clean or tidy

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Messy

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Extremely unhappy or uncomfortable due to feeling lonely, cold, badly treated, etc.

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Miserable

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To fail to do something or go to an event, especially when you want to but cannot

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Miss

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Something that a person must have

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Need

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A person who is living in a house, room, etc.

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Occupant

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An idea or belief about a particular subject

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Opinion

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An amount of time or a situation in which something can be done

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Opportunity

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Completely different

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Opposite

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To take part in an activity or event

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Participate

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Possibly but not certainly

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Perhaps

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The set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc. That makes a person different from other people

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Personality

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Causing a feeling of happiness or pleasure

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Pleasant

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Good or useful

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Positive

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Able to be done

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Possible

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Likely to develop in the future; capable of becoming real

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Potential

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To say that something will happen before it happens

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Predict

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A feeling of liking or wanting one person or thing more than another person or thing

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Preference

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The state of being alone or away from other people

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Privacy

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Belonging to one person or group

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Private

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Likely to happen, likely to be true, etc.

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Probably

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Something that is difficult to deal with

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Problem

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A large area into which some countries are divided and which usually has its own local government

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Province

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A square open area with buildings all around it, especially at a school or college

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Quad

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Not making much noise or making no noise at all

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Quiet

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Something that a person says or writes that is repeated or used by someone else in another piece of writing or a speech

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Quote

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To know and remember someone or something because of previous knowledge or experience

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Recognize

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An activity that you do for pleasure or amusement (entertainment)

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Recreation

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To show or make a connection between two or more things

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Relate

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The way in which people or groups are connected and behave towards each other

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Relationship

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A member of a family

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Relative

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To have an idea or picture in your mind of people, events, places, etc. From the past

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Remember

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Something you rent (e.g. house, car)

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Rental

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The place where someone lives

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Residence

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Someone who lives or stays in a particular place

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Resident

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Living in a room, apartment, or house with another person

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Rooming

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An official statement that tells you what is or is not allowed in a particular game, job, situation, etc.

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Rule

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Things done to make people or places safe and protected from danger

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Security

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Someone or something that is chosen from a group

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Selection

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To have or use something together with other people

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Share

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Feeling nervous and uncomfortable about meeting and talking to people

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Shy

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Almost the same as someone or something else

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Similar

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A quality that makes one person or thing like another

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Similarity

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A combination of all the things that are happening and all the conditions that exist at a particular time and place

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Situation

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The ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice.

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Skill

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A way of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.

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Solution

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A club for female students at some universities

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Sorority

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An area that is used or available for a specific purpose

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Space

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Different from what is normal or usual, especially unusual in a good way (better or more important)

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Special

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Special or particular person, thing, etc.

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Specific

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Someone who you have not met before or do not know

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Stranger

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A careful plan or method for achieving a particular goal usually over a long period of time.

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Strategy

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The way that something is built, arranged, or organized.

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Structure

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An idea about what someone should do

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Suggestion

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A short statement that gives the most important information about something

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Summary

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To agree with or approve of an idea, group, person, etc.

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Support

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The state of continuing to live or exist

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Survival

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To continue to live normally in spite of many problems

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Survive

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Following ideas and methods that have existed for a long time, rather than doing anything new or different

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Traditional

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A change from one state or condition to another

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Transition

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A change from one state or condition to another

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Transition

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Having three parts or involving three people, groups, events, etc.

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Triple

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A situation that is difficult or has a lot of problems

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Trouble

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A particular kind or group of things or people

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Type

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To draw a line under a word to show that it is important

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Underline

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Not frequently seen, heard, or experienced; not known to you

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Unfamiliar

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Not pleasant or enjoyable

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Unpleasant

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Very useful or helpful

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Valuable

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Strongly held beliefs about what is valuable, important, or acceptable [usually plural]

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Values

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A number or collection of different things or people

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Variety

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Different from each other

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Various

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To be or become different

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Vary

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To use more money, time, energy, etc. Than is useful or sensible

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Waste

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Used to indicate the value of something

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Worth