Princeton Toefl Flashcards
(256 cards)
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Ritual
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Ceremony
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Plumage
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The features covering a bird’s body
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Tryst
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A meeting between lovers in a secret place or at a secret time
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Elaborate
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Intricate, complex
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Twig
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A small very thin stem of wood that grows from a branch on a tree
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Tunnel
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A passage under the ground that animals have dug to live in
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Perch
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A branch or stick where a bird sits
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Lavish
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Large, impressive
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Delineate
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To make the borders between two areas very clear
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Beak
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Bill
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Fondness
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To like sth
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Choke
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To be unable to breathe properly
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Set off
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To start to go somewhere
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Trinket
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A small pretty object that is not valuable
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Prune
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To cut off some of the branches of a tree or bush to make it grow better
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Sturdy
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Strong
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Bypass
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To avoid system
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Hospitable
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Friendly, welcoming, generous to visitors
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Account
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Description
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Gratitude
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To feeling of being grateful
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Regardless of
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Without being affected or influenced by sth
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Pendulous
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Swinging freely
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Give off
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Produce a smell
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Scent
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Fragrance
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Edible
Can be eaten
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Peek
To look quickly at sth, just see a small amount of it
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Canopy
Covering
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Foliage
The leaves of a plant
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Exclusive
Available only to particular people
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Exclusively
Only
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Fend off
Fight off
| To defend yourself against someone who is attacking you
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Boundless
Abundant, having no limit
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Surge
To suddenly increase
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Shrunk
Shrink=to become smaller
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Reed
A type of tall plant like grass that grows in wet places
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Accompany
To go somewhere with someone
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Rigorous
Careful, thorough, exact
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Prospect
The possibility that something will happen
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Harassment
Threatening way
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Die off
Die one by one until no more of that
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Wither
Dry and not bloom
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Lintel
A piece of stone or wood across the top of a window or door, forming part of frame
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Primitive
Simple, not modern
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Apparent
Easy to notice
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Inherent
A natural part of it and cannot be separated from it
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Conquer
To defeat an enemy
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Cumbersome
Slow and difficult, heavy, not easy to use, clumsy
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Date back
To have existed since a particular time in the past
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Hominid
Human
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Underbrush
Underground, small tree growing under
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Tame
To reduce the power or strength of sth and prevent it from causing trouble
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Resourceful
Good at finding ways of dealing with practical problems
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Lit
Light
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Hearth
The area of floor around a fireplace in a house
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Harness
Control
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Rubbing
Polish
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Chipping
Small pieces break off
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Flint
Smooth hard stone
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Spark
Flash ประกายไฟ
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Anthropologist
The scientific study of people, their societies culture
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Portable
Able to be carried or move easily
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Disposal
Elimination
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Reveal
Show
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Enable
To make it possible for someone to do something
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Artifact
Object
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Coincide with
To happen at the Same time as something else, especially by chance
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Cope with
Involve
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Regarding
Speeches to introduce the subject
Concerning
With regard to
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Indifference
Lack of interest
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Hail
To describe someone or something as being very good
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Lariat
A weapon
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Debt
Sum of money
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Owe
Borrow
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Arduous
Involving a lot of strength and effort
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Bow
To bend your body
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Squint
To look at sth with your eyes partly closed in order to see better
หรี่ตา ชำเลืองมอง
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Glare
To shine with very strong bright light which hurts your eyes
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Treeless
No tree
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Toughen
To become difficult
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Exertion
A lot of physical effort, the use of power
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Tie
ผูกให้แน่น
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Keep out
ปิดกั้นไม่ให้เข้าไปข้างใน
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Bandage
ผ้าพันแผล
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Chaps
กางเกงหนังที่ไม่มีส่วนก้นที่ใช้สวมทับกางเกงปกติเพื่อป้องกันส่วนขา
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Thorny
Plant has thorns
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Handler
Someone who trains an animal
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Morale
The level of confidence and positive feelings
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Call upon
To formally ask someone to do sth, to visit someone for a short time
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Attribute to
To believe that person said it
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Cupboard
Wardrobe, cabinet
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Rear
Front
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Molasses
กากน้ำตาล
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Perishable
Is likely to decay quickly
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Picturesque
สวยงดงามมีเสน่ห์
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Solitude
Isolation, privacy
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Aviation
The science or practice of flying in aircraft
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No sooner had...than
ในอีกไม่ช้า used to say that something happened almost immediately after something else
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Smite
To hit sth with a lot of force
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Take in a movie
Go to see a movie
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Up-to-date
Modern
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Odds against
How likely it is that something will or will not happen
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Stunt
A dangerous action
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Exemplified
To give an example of sth
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Resourcefulness
Good at finding ways of dealing with practical problems
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Testify to
To show clearly that sth is the case
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Grudge
To do or give sth veery unwillingly
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Be deem to do sth
Consider
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Indignant
Angry and surprised because you feel insulted or unfairly treated
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Ironically
เชิงเหน็บแนม
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Subsequent
Come after สิ่งที่ตามมาภายหลัง
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Settle down
To become quiet and calm
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Illustrious
Famous and admired because of what you have achieved
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Foremost
The most important
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Mishap
A small accident that does not have very serious results
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Stack
Heap
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Intrusion
Annoying
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Profusion
A very large amount of sth
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Fairly
Quite
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Endeavor
Try hard to do something
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Skimmed off, scraped from
To remove sth from the surface
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Seep
To flow slowly through small holes or spaces
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Conduit
A pipe which water passes
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Drill
A tool or machine used for making holes in something
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Artificially
Not real
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Offshore
Not far from the coast
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Platform
ชานชาลา
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Vigorous
Energetic
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Rupture
Breach, break แตกออก
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Pipeline
A line of connecting pipes, often under the ground, used for sending oil , gas over long distances
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Spill
หก
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Finite
Having a limit
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Frighteningly
Making you feel afraid or nervous
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Crest
Top, highest point
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Incorporate
Consolidate, unite, to include sth as part of a group
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Prominence
The fact of being important and well-known
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Genre
Kind, sort, type, style
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Virtuoso
Someone who is a very skillful performer especially in music
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Literally
To emphasize a strong expression, actually, virtually
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Figuratively
To give you a particular idea or picture in your mind
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Mere
Small or unimportant things
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Cohesive
Connected or related in a reasonable way to form a whole, uniting people or things
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Epic
A poem that tells along story about brave actions and exciting events
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Summon
Call, gather
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Deposit
To put sth down in a particular place
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Squeezing
Press sth firmly
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Uplift
An increase sth, raised upwards
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Carve
To make an object or pattern by cutting a piece of wood or stone
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Wash off
To clean dirt from the surface of sth with water
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Flank
Side
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Outward
Directed towards the outside or away from a place
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Upheaval
A very big change that often causes problems
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Gorges
A deep narrow valley with steep sides
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Till
Until
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Tilt
To move or make sth move into a position
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Terrain
Region, territory ภูมิประเทศ
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Picturesque
สวยสง่ามีเสน่ห์, scenic
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Incessant
Constant
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Railroad
Railway
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Executive
เกี่ยวกับการดำเนินการ การบริหาร
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Wrought iron
เหล็กบริสุทธิ์ที่ดัดเป็นรูปร่างต่างๆได้
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Drawn-out
Take more time than usual or more time than you would think
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Cutlery
Knives, forks, spoons
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Spring
Curved metal
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Mine
To dig large holes in the ground in order to remove gold
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Shovel
พลั่ว
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Depot
A place where goods are stored until they are needed
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Dizzy
โง่เง่า เวียนศีรษะหน้ามืดfeeling unable to stand steadily ex. A high place
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Disparate
Consisting of things or people that are very different and not related to each other
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Confluence
The place where two or more rivers flow together
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Radical
Extreme, very big and important
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Prodigious
Very large or great in a surprising or impressive way
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Crisscross
A pattern made up of a lot of straight lines that cross each other
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Punctuate
To be interrupted by sth, especially when this is repeated
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Graphically
Very clear, vividly
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Craftwork
งานฝีมือ
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Bead
ลูกปัด
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Crafts person
คนที่มีทักษะงานฝีมือ
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String
To put thing together
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Excise
To remove or get rid of sth, especially by cutting it out
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Pierce
to make a small hole in or through something, using an object with a sharp point
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Sinew
A part of your body that connect a muscle to a bone
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Embroidered
Decorated
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Paleness
More white
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Fathomless
Impossible to measure or understand
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Hang on
To hold sth tightly
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Worship
Respect for a God
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Commemorate
ระลึกถึง
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Made out of
Produce
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Woven
Weave
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Barter
Exchange
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Come into
Move towards you
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Reluctant to
Unwilling to
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Stand-in
someone who does the job or takes the place of someone else for a short time
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For a while
ชั่วขณะหนึ่ง, a period of time
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Shatter
To break suddenly into very small pieces
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Splinter
a small sharp piece of wood, glass, or metal, that has broken off a larger piece:
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Virtue
Moral goodness of character and behaviour
Opp; vice
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Boon
something that is very useful and makes your life a lot easier or better:
The bus service is a real boon to people in the village.
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Take up
Interested in anew activity
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Rim
The outside edge of sth circular
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Stand on
Give opinion
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Gash
A large deep hole
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Cataclysm
A violent or sudden event
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Wear away
To gradually become smoother or thinner
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Topmost
Top
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Cave in
Fall down
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Tumble
Fall down quickly
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Meandered
Slow relax
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Bulge
To stick out in a rounded shape, especially bcoz sth is very full or too tight
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Carve out
Move
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Sweep away
To completely destroy
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Subject to
Depend on
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Perpetual
Continue to exist for a long time
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Break off
To end
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Be/get carried away
To be so excited, interested
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Split
To divide
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Friction
the natural force that prevents one surface from sliding easily over another surface:
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Respect
The belief in something
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Crust
The hard outer layer of the earth
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Tremble
Shake slightly
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Palimpsest
An ancient document
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Collision with
Hit each other while moving in different direction
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Cease
Stop
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Ripped from
แยก ฉีก
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Come up with
To have an idea
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Accretion
a layer of a substance which slowly forms on something
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Side by side
Next to each other
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Arise
Begin to happen
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Peculiar
Strange
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Remain
ซากที่ยังเหลืออยู่
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Coalesced into
Fuse
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Comet
ดาวหาง
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Meteor
ดาวตก
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Crater
ปล่องภูเขาไฟ
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Apart from
เว้นเสียแต่ว่า, นอกเหนือไปจาก
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Patch
A small area
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Efface
To destroy or remove sth, erase
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Mitigate
Alleviate
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Wildlife
Animals and plants growing in natural conditions
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Tap
Use
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Traverse
To move across, over , or through sth, especially an area of land or water
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Extremity of
The part that is furthest away from the centre of sth
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Subsequently
Accordinglyตามลำดับ
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Mindful of sth
Conscious of, remembering a particular rule ofpr fact and thinking about it when you are making decisions about what to do
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Driftwood
Wood floating in the sea or left on the shore
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Myriad
Very many
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Creek
A small narrow stream or river
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Birch
A tree with smooth
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Aspiration
Ambition, a strong desire to have or achieve sth
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Venture
A new business activity that involves taking risks, to go somewhere that could be dangerous
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Nimble
Agile, quick
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Voyager
Someone who makes long and often dangerous journeys, especially on the sea
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Paddle
พาย
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Paramount
More important than anything else
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Frontier
The border of a country
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Cooperation
การทำงานร่วมกัน, ความร่วมมือ willingness to do what someone asks you to do
