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| show | n. a building with machinery for crushing grain into flour
› A mill is also a factory where a particular materials or substances are processed:
a paper/steel mill
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| show | n. the larger of the two elected groups of the US Congress (= the group of people who make the laws)
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| show | n. › If a bad situation or painful emotion heals, it ends or improves, and if something heals it, it makes it end or improve:
This herb has been used in ___________for centuries.
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| show | n. a piece of written music showing the parts for all the different instruments and voices, or the music written for a movie or other entertainment
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| show | n. a strong vertical column made of stone, metal, or wood that supports part of a building or stands alone for decoration
› A pillar is also someone or something that is an important part of a group, place, or activity:
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| show | n.a story written with the words to be spoken by actors on television or in a movie.
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| antenna n. | show 🗑
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| show | n. the number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number or times:
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| show | adj. describes a substance that is easily changed into a new shape:
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| pliability n. | show 🗑
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| lascivious adj. | show 🗑
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| lust n. | show 🗑
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| tyranny n. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. showing that you are confident, in control, and expect to be respected and obeyed:
She has an ______ manner that at times is almost arrogant.
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| show | adj. unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile:
a morose ________
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| show | n. the quality of being easy to understand or do:
A flat tax has the virtue of _______, but I question how fair it would be.
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| show | adj. unite things that were separate:
[I] Our offices had been spread among three buildings, and then we _______ into one new high-rise.
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| accuracy n. | show 🗑
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| toxic adj. | show 🗑
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| ignominious adj. | show 🗑
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| praise v. | show 🗑
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| noxious adj. | show 🗑
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| harm n. | show 🗑
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| show | n. the belief that there is hidden meaning in life or that each human being can unite with God
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| show | adj. very comfortable and expensive:
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| guile n. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. very good and suitable to be copied by other people:
His tact was exemplary, especially considering the circumstances.
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| criticism n. | show 🗑
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| exuberant adj. | show 🗑
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| show | n. complete happiness:
Two weeks lying on a beach is my idea of absolute ______.
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| show | n. the ability to prepare wisely for the future.
She had the ______ to sell her house just before prices came down.
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| show | adj. knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future:
a _______ warning
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| show | n. the ability to use your knowledge and experience to make good decisions and judgments:
One certainly hopes to gain a little _____ as one grows older.
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| show | adj. having or showing understanding and the ability to make good judgments:
a sagacious person/comment/choice
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| brittle adj. | show 🗑
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| show | n. the state of being extremely poor
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| show | n. any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, knife, etc.:
a lethal ________
chemical/nuclear/biological ______
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| show | n. physical or other injury or damage:
Both deny conspiring to cause actual bodily ____.
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| symptom n. | show 🗑
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| treat n. | show 🗑
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| impartiality n. | show 🗑
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| comprehend v. | show 🗑
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| raze v. | show 🗑
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| joke n. | show 🗑
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| amuse v. | show 🗑
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| show | v. a journey ( travelling from one place to another) on a horse or bicycle, or in a vehicle:
It's a short bus _____ to the airport.
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| sprint v. | show 🗑
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| show | v. to fall very quickly and suddenly:
Temperatures ______ed last night.
The parachute failed to open and he _______ed to the ground.
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| show | v.(in arguments or war) to prevent further disagreement by giving to the other side something that they have demanded:
They questioned whether, in his desire to appease the conservatives in his own party, the president was selling out to them.
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| show | v. to help or encourage a person or thing to do something, esp. something wrong or illegal:instigate,induce
Shady lawyers _______ed the company’s officers in stealing the funds.
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| draw v. | show 🗑
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| inscribe v. | show 🗑
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| show | v. to hide. to prevent something from being seen or known about:
The listening device was _____ed in a pen.
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| uncover v. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. determined in character, action, or ideas:
Their ______ opposition to new working methods was difficult to overcome.
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| waver v. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. › honest, sincere, and telling the truth, even when this might be awkward or make other people uncomfortable:
a full and ___ discussion
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| show | adj. a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have because you have done something wrong, such as causing harm to another person:
I feel so ____ about forgetting her birthday.
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| voracious adj. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. not known to many people or not clear
an _____ island in the Pacific
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| show | adj. solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules:
In business, the _______approach ( to come near) to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
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| flee v. | show 🗑
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| show | adj. closely connected or appropriate to the matter in hand.
"what small companies need is _____ advice"
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| show | n. a religion of Japan that emphasizes the spirits of nature and being loyal (› always giving help and encouragement:) to the Japanese emperor (= ruler)
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