commonly used words Flashcards
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archipelago
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a series of islands
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types of volcano
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active, dorment, extinct
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a little bit of
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it was a little bit of a cooler morning, because we had some rain overnight.
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a thought cross my mind
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And as we were eating breakfast, I had a thought cross my mind as, ah, today would be a good day to go to the hot springs.
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right
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But unfortunately we don’t have hot springs right2 in our area
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mountainous
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up in the mountainous regions.
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stump
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lincon stand on a stump and pretent to be an important person in the town.
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stumble
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He stumbled and almost fell
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bumper to bumper
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the traffic is really bad, it is bumper to bumper
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thump
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walk very clumsy and slowly
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lump
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a small bump especially on the surface of the skin
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hump
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the double parts of a camel, sometimes it is used to describe a beauty’s rump is very sexy
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trump
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Hearts are trumps
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slump
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the little dog slumps to the doghouse, looking sad
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slurp
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he happily slurped and chewed
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splash
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it makes a big splash when the bullfrog jumped into the water
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spill
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He trip over Tiger’s plate and cat’s food spilled everwhere
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tumble
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A small boy tumbled off a third floor fire escape
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chump
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Trump is a chump
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Thump
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THUMP, THUMP fell the book. He couldn’t carry them all
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champ
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He had been, he said modestly, swimming champ at high school.
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thumb
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thumb up, thumb down
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triumph
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The championships proved to be a personal triumph for the coach, Dave Donovan
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pump
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he pump us the tire of the bicycle
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plump
she is a very plump girl
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dump
dumping rabbish is not good behaviour
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trumpet
Trumpet is a small instrument.
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clumsy
the clown is a clumsy boy who dress up costums
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smash
Lindan have a jump smash
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smack
when a beaver swims, it smacks the water with its tail. Smack!
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stretch
the desert stretches across all of Egypt.
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sliver
Owl sees a sliver of moon in the clear sky, it is kind of slim.
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light up
the moon doesn't shine on its own, the sun lights up the moon.
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humble,boastful
be humble, not boastful
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You will have to guess
Could you please let me know what is your preference? You will have to guess.
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do you know the major parts of a body
feet, leg, round, rump, ribs, breast, shoulder
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bite, growl,wag
the dog was biting, growling and wagging its tail.
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swag
swag is a popular style of hipop music
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meet and greet
Rusty jumps up to greet her. Are you a good boy?
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whine
he could hear his dog barking and whining in the backyard
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slump
this is the circle of economy booms and slumps
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shiver
He shivered in the cold. similar like shake
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peek,sneek, cheek, seek, week
He sneeks out of the tent, and peeks out, the rain fall down his cheek as if he is crying
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fess up
if you mess up, fess up. Abrevation of confess, admit.
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spade, spear, split, spoil, spoon
they all have the similar meaning to use something to make somethinginto two parts, spade is just like a spoon to carry soil or soup
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span
the longest river in the world is Nile River which is 4289 miles long and it spans 40 mile
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break down food
I break down food by the acid in the stoumach
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shape
Each part of the earthworm is shaped like a ring and can bend and stretch.
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slimy
His feet slippered in the slimy mud.
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slime
there was a film of slime on top of the pond
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slide
the slime kelps keep the worms cool and wet, and it also helps worms slide through soil.
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mate
behaviour of animals when they have sex with the other one
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cocoon
after their mate, a cocoon of slime forms
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tunnel
earthworms build long tunnels underground, they help them hide from hungry animals
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bait
earthworms make good fishing bait because fish think they are tasty food
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overnight lows
the overnight lows were going to be down around 12 to 13 degrees
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plunge
he plunge into the river
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plug
he put the plug in the sink and filled it with cold water
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it was freezing cold outside
it is not chilled, not cold, it is freezing cold outside, it isalmost frigid
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hike in to access it
they have to hike in to access the hot spring
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lug
Nobody wants to lug around huge suitcases full of clothes
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luggage
Leave your luggage in the hotel
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fungi
If it grows on the tree, it is fungi, if it grows in the grass ,it is mushroom
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press ones nose against window
I press my nose against the widow
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they watch the March wind blow outside
they watch the March wind blow outside
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doorstep
can we sit on the doorstep
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kite
I want to fly my kite
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let go
hold tight, I am going to let go.
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let go of
I let go of my string
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tear
A branch tore my kite.
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blind, blink, wink
He like to wink or blink before he went blind
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blind, blink, wink
He like to wink or blink before he went blind.Wink means wave+blink
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take care
please alwayse take care of yourself
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take hold of
He take hold of the kite string, the kite sails up and up, and he go up and up with it. Soon he fly out of sight. The other hoppers nearly burst into tears.
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howl
the dog howls in the street
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walk by
I walk by the riverside
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on site
We can do the experiment on site.
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speck
Speck means small spot.
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hang by the door
my shirt hangs by the door.
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braids
I would like to have a braids, this means many sliver of thin hiars. Please note that it should be in the catgary of branch because it is at the beginning of BR
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trim and perm
I wold like to have a trim, but not perm( permanent)
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I would like to have my hair
-cut, coloured, bleached, permed, streaked, styled, straightened, curled, layered
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dandruff
I have very bad dandruff
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split ends
I have got so many split ends of my hair.
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coil
Tod shook his head angrily and slung the coil of rope over his shoulder
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podcast
Podcast is a kind of thinds like facebook, twitter and website which is usually written by authors.
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socket，socks
Pull out the plug from the socket.
| Her eyes were sunk deep into their sockets
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shuffle dance
shuffle dance is a kind of a pop dance
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shuttle
shuttle is a kind of plane and it is also a bus tranfers passengers from one place to another place.
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tuft grass
tuft grass is a small grass while turf grass is a kind of grass which was cut neatly
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slithery and slimy
slithery usually describe snakes and slimy usually describe water or maple syrup
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dry and drought
when it is extremely dry it will become drought
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backbone and spine
backbone and spine are the most important bone at the back of one person
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scaly
reptiles have dry, scaly skin
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leathery
His hair and beard are both untidy and his skin is quite leathery
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shed
snakes shed their their skins when they are too tight
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shed
snakes shed their their skins when it becomes too tight
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shelter
The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids
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rattlesnake
rattlesnake is a special kind of snake which is really poisonous.
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venomous
rattlesnake is venomous snake
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unadulterated harney
I like to eat unadulterated harney, his company was accused of adulterating 'all beef' with cereal.
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salinity, salt, salty
salinity means what's the degree of slat that a ocean has
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treat it like
dont treat me like a kid, i am already twenty years old
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for the most part
for the most part means usually
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not a bit/not one bit
I am not a bit happy but sometimes i am a little bit happy
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in the same boat
The situation of the company is really bad, we are in the same boat
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health nut
I am a health nut and I like to play sports and do exercise
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extract
The doctor extract my blood from the arm
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side note
making side not is reaaly a good way to learn new stuffs
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daily intake
My daily take are two cups of milk, a egg and some pieces of breads
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diet
I am on diet and i have a diet of carrot cake
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digest
For the most parts my stomouch break down the food and digest them by the acid in the stomouch
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ingest
I am ingesting an apple
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gruff
sometimes it means tough, the ram said in a gruff and tough voice, Jacktal, you have done very well and you have brought the Lionpard for us to eat, my kid wa crying for his food. These words was more than Lionpard stood, he leaped away and began to run, he ran up and down the hills, though the bushes and under the rocks. He did not look back untail the ppr jacktal was bruised from head to toe.
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whisky
A kind of well-known bevarage, or beer, or wine that for the most part is made in England
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whisk
a kind of tool that for the most part is used for mixing egg in a plate
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whistle, whisper,whisker
whistle is meaning making sa sound continuously by puffing out gas through the mouth to make it a little bit musical and whisper is meaning speaking somebody to some other one by very little voice preventing others hear. whisker is a kind of moustach that grows on the round side of the mouth
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unicycle
unicycle is a kind of monocycle that for the most part has only one wheel
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crescent
It was night and crescent moon shone brightly
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glitter
The bay glittered in the sunshine.
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duke it out
John told George to meet him in the alley so they could duke it out.
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mind reader
I am not a mind reader.Look at your friends and family and see if you are a mind reader
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trouble in paradise
I love that girl but i saw that girl hang out with other gus, so i have a trouble in paradise
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that special someone
I have met that special someone
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soul mate
she is my soul mate, she is my beloved
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absence makes the heart grow fonder
someone i love is not with me , i still love her even more
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to put up walls
dont put up walls when you want to appologize
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to make it work
to put in effort to make the relationship work more smoother
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make sense
that makes sense by saying that clearly
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mosque /ma:sk/
hundreds of thousands of people packed into that mosque
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mask
the gunman, whose mask had slippered, fled
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mask
the gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled
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gangway
a man in the gangway suddently stood up to reach for something in the overhead locker
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sneak upon, creep up, slide down
one by one, the rats sneaked upon the ship. They crept up the wooden gangway. Then they slid down a rope and into a cargo bay.
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spice
spice is for the most part a vegetable which is used to change the flavour of the food
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rag
there are ragged holes chewed in the sacks of rice
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rag
there are ragged holes chewed in the sacks of rice adn something had been nibbling the cheese
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trap
set traps and catch the rats
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trip over
the rats were much too smart to get trapped, they tripped the traps and ate the bacon and cheese
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hoist
hoisting the suitcase on to my shoulder, i turned and headed toward the hotel
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sew
sew the sails and bait more traps
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blow up
a terrible storm blew up
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toss, tow
toss a piny and tow the car
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toss, tow
the ship was tossed around by the rough waves
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anchor
he asked the sailer to drop the anchor
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chew through
the ratty rats had chewed through the anchor rope
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yalk, yoke, yolk
yalk means cattle, yoke means a pair of tools hang on the necks of the two bulls, yolk mean the central part of an egg
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fry
the baby of a salmon
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fling
the salmon fling herself into the air
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think-tank
a group of people with great intelligence
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when it comes to
when it comes to the soccer, i dont like to play soccer
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make the case that/make the arguement that
though you make the case that you like to play soccer, i dont like to play soccer
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in terms of
in terms of soccer, i have to say i dont like to play soccer
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in what way
in what way should i make the report
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as opposed to
as opposed to running, i prefer swimming
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be synonymous with
playing too much game is synomymous with wasting time
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whatever happened to
whatever happened to the actor, he looked like sick
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make a distinction between
I am sorry i dont make
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shabby or ragged
there was ragged holes chewed in the sacks of rcie
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slipcover
it is better to buy a sofa with a slipcover because it is really good for kid and easy to put it inside a washer and dryer
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one way or the other
one way or the other, we have to solve the problem
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grease the wheels
i submit a application, for a long time, it has not been solved, i send some money to the guy who is responsible for the stuff, i would like to grease the wheels
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i cant say thank you enough
you have really done a good job and you worked very hard, and i cant say thank you enough
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get off the right foot
I really get off the right foot on my fisrt day of working in the new company
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i stand corrected
when i argue with some other guy to discuss whether there is pink frogs, i argue that there is no pink frog but the other guy argued there is pink frog. After searching online, we really find no pink frogd, so i said i stand corrected which for the most part means i admit i was wrong
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to take the initiative
on an dance party, no one would like to dance with a unformiliar guys, so i take the initiative to invite another girl to have the dance together.
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on cue
right on cue the door opened
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two for the price of one
buy one, get one free
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one way or the other
one way or the other, i will stop him
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grease the wheels
if you would like to improve the relationship with others, u can use some tiny methods to grease the wheels
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I cant say thank you enough
when someone have done something very helpful to you, you would like to say i cant say thank you enough
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thanks, thank you, thank you very much, i cant say thank you enough
i cant reccomend enough
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get off on the right foot
i get off on the right foot on the first day of my first job
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I stand corrected
I admit that i was wrong
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to take the initiative
at a dance party, i take the initiative to invite a shy young woman to dance together
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fatherly advice
when you hope to do something which is needing much more experiences, you may ask your father for fatherly advice
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tip
The sleeves covered his hands to the tips of his fingers
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dapper
handsome, i would like to have my hair looked dapper
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the tip of the iceberg
the corruption is just the tip of the iceberg
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taproot
the main root of a tree
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half decent
the level is good, decent, half decent
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loud clothing
that guy wear a loud clothing
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to pull off something
I pull off grabing the cloth from the shop
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to pull in
th bus pull in the station
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to pull up
drag something up or the vehicle stop
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to be out there
crazy
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grey area
opposite position of black or white area
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white lie
a kind of lie
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repercussion
unintended result
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a little bit goes a long way
a little bit of harney goes a long way to help you recover quickly
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to do your part
i am doing my part for the enviroment
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bunch, bundle
the donkeys carried heavy bundles
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appreciate
the donkeys carried the bundles for miles, but they never felt appreciate for the work they did.
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be fed up
one day two donkeys got fed up. I am fed up with reading how women should dress to please men
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appreciate, fed up,
the donkeys never felt appreciate for the work they did. Two donkeys got fed up. They did not want to work all the time. They wanted to graze in grass fields, they wanted to drink from the clear streams, they wanted to lie on soft grass.
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a matter of minutes
they are whisked through the immgration and custom formalities in a matter of minutes
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trip, trip over, knock over
trip the trap and ate the bacon and cheese; the clumy boy tripped over Tiger's bowl and cat's food spilled everywhere; the donkeys become impatient, they began to kick and stir about. They knocked over the paint pot.
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roam
this is why both donkeys and zebras roam the earth, this is also why it is important to be patient
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shallow
the pool is shallow
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snout
the big nose sticking out of the cheek, especially used as animals' nose
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windpipe
windpipe is the thin pipe used to breath
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nostril
The monster had two eyes and a single central nostril.
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toque
a kind of hat withour edge or trim
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seep
Radioactive water had seeped into underground reservoirs
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in the middle of nowhere
At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere
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dusk(originated from dark),dusky
We arrived home at dusk.
| Heavy gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks.
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seep, seek, sneek, peek, peep
Radioactive water had seeped into underground reservoirs
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do you know the different time interval of a day
at dawn (day), in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, at dusk, in the evening, at night/midnight
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do you know the different time interval of a day
at dawn (day), in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, at dusk, in the evening, at night/midnight. The prenoun before different time is used alternatively, you can see at, in, at, in, at, in,at
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makeover
the makeover plan of the kitchen
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transform your community
connect, build and transform the community
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as the crow flies, or in a beeline
"As the crow flies" or "in a beeline" is an idiom for the shortest path between two points
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staple, stable
Rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population
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lounge
The leis were sitting before a roaring fire in the lounge, sipping their tea
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chaise lounge
She proceeded to recline on a chaise longue
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pros and cons
They sat for hours debating the pros and cons of setting up their own firm
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streamline
They're making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome bureaucracy
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shoulder
hosting the rack onto my shoulder, i walk towards my hotel
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series
The students have put forward a series of questions
