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No.
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Word
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type
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meaning
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sentence
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1
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glib
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adjective
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Speak with ease but without sincerity
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I have found that the more glib the
salesman, the worse the
product.
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2
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blurt
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verb
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Speak quickly without thought
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Please think about your reply
and don’t just blurt out the first thing that
comes in your mind.
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3
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eccentric
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adjective
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Strange, highly unconventional, bizarre, cranky, peculiar, unusual
|
-Raina was well-known for her eccentricities, often speaking
words backward to confuse those round her.
-Mia loves to collect an eccentric products and keep it as an indelible.
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4
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fascination
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noun
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Power to fascinate someone
|
She has always held a fascination
towards me.
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5
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indelible
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adjective
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Impossible to forget or remove
|
Your family name may be stay on
my mind but let me tell you
something, you’re not indelible.
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6
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ebullient
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adjective
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Full of confident, energy, and good humor
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I love my prime minister as he
always in ebullient mood.
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7
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morbid
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adjective
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Strong interest in sadness or unpleasant things
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His morbid fascination towards death terrifies
me.
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8
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credulity
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noun
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Ability or willingness to believe that something is real
|
The credulity of his horror
novels amaze me.
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9
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equivocal
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adjective
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Open to more than one
interpretation, ambiguous, vague, imprecise, hazy, unclear
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The results of the investigation were equivocal.
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10
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aboveboard
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adjective
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Open and honest
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Mak Leha’s face was hardly aboveboard as
she gave speech about the environmental
cleanliness.
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11
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apprehension
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noun
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-Fearful expectation. Misgiving, foreboding, unease, worry, anxiety
-understanding, grasp
|
-Test day can be one of pure apprehension, as many students worry about their
test score.
-The pure apprehension of the work art.
-The apprehension
of music encourages me to keep
calm instantly.
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12
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autonomously
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adverb
|
Act independently, self-governing
|
Many of the factory workers
are worried about being replaced by machines and computers that will work
complete autonomously.
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13
|
oust
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verb
|
Remove, expel
|
I ask dad to oust him
from his company.
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14
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grassroots
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adjective
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Important, fundamental, paramount, crucial, weighty, significant
|
You have to know a grassroots factor in deciding to buy a house.
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15
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embellish
|
verb
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-Make something beautiful by adding ornaments
-improve ( add untrue details)
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-She wears a dress embellished with lace and ribbons.
-He often embellishes the tales of his travel.
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16
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soporific
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adjective
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Induces sleep
|
I’m tired of listening to soporific lectures every day.
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17
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secluded
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adjective
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Placed apart from other people
|
She lives in a secluded beach far from the urban
area.
|
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18
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insolvent
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adjective
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Not having enough money to pay debts
|
Dad willingly helps his insolvent friend
pay debts to save his life from
danger.
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19
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Smog
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noun
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-Fog mixed with smoke, cloud of dirty air
-brume, fog, mist
|
-The city’s smog was once so bad that darkness was
prevailed, even at noon.
-We see nothing as smog filled our
surrounding.
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20
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Disparate
|
adjective
|
-different from each other
-distinctive
-diverse
|
-Make a trouble is disparate thing that he cannot change it rather than
his twin.
-Disparate notions among
adults and adolescents about when middle begins.
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21
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Riot
|
noun
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-situation in which a large group of people behave in a violent way
-someone / something that is very funny, hoot, knee-slapper, laugh
|
-Polices always try to handle a riot that
occur from unthinkable person.
- The new comedy is a riot.
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22
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Stance
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noun
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-publicly state opinion
- way of standing
-posture, station, attitude
|
-My mum impresses with my little brother’s stance
not to deal with people’s words.
-She has maintained a neutral stance during
the negotiations.
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23
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swatch
|
noun
|
-Small cloth as sample to choose colors and fabrics
-patch
|
-Customers are allowed to test the fabric swatches
as long as they keep it neatly and safely.
-She looked at fabric swatches to select material for the drapes.
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24
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Estranged
|
verb
|
-cause someone to be no longer friendly/ close to group
-alienate
-alien
-disaffect
-disgruntle
-sour
|
-I have decided to estrange them from
my life.
-she estranged several of her
coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head.
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25
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Cop
|
-noun
-verb
|
-police officer
-steal, take, get something
-receive something undesirable
|
-I do support my brother my ambition to be a cop.
-He didn’t succeed to cop my attention
from the lecture.
-Somebody copped my watch.
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26
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Loud-mouthed
|
adjective
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Given to loud offensive talk
|
I cannot negotiate with a loud-mouthed person.
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27
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Bail
|
noun
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-temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes sum
of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court
-surety, security, assurance, indemnity
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-My uncle was released on bail.
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28
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Bondsman
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noun
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-Person who agrees to pay a bond
-slave
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Mr. Chia was forced to be a bondsman.
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29
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Entangle
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Verb
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-catch
-get involved
-ensnare
-interlace
-intertwine
|
-The young runaway gradually became entangled
in a web of lies.
-In the process taking down the Christmas tree, we managed to entangle the strings of the lights into a hopeless
mess of wires.
-They become entangled in a war.
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30
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Cartel
|
noun
|
-a group businesses that agree to fix prices, so can make more money
-combination
-syndicate
|
-A cartel of oil-producing nations
that controls production and influences prices.
-I don’t think he will realize the influence as he get involved with
Mexican drug cartels.
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31
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Wind up
|
verb
|
-end
-conclude
-terminate
-complete
|
-We can’t believe that we can escape than wind
up in the hunt.
-Her speeches often wind up with last
one joke and poem.
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32
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Demean
|
verb
|
To insult
|
-Everyone knows how bad can we feel as we demean
others.
-At first the soccer players bantered and forth, but as soon as one
of the players became demeaning calling the
other’s mother a water buffalo, the ref whipped out a red card.
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33
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Banter
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verb
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-speak or act playfully
-badinage
-backchat
|
-People sometimes mistook our constant banter
for spiteful bickering.
-He loves to banter along with anyone
and somehow make people know him lots.
|
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34
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emulate
|
verb
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-strive to be equal, by imitating
-compete successfully
|
-We can emulate our idol but not too
much, just take good parts of them to change ourselves to be better than
previous.
-To really become fluent in new language, emulate
the speech patterns of people who speak the language.
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35
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stem
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verb
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-hold back
-limit the flow or growth of something
|
-To stem the tide of application, the
prestigious Ivy requires that each applicant score at least 330mon the
Revised GRE.
-Carnival Okland Management stems the
amount of the audience by tightening up the security.
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Just believe in Allah,,n everything's gonna be exciting,, Always be confident when u're right Our priority is ALLAH n parents. Don't make something that will make u regret. Explore everything in this wide world. No one can change us unless ourselves
Friday, 10 July 2015
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