red
/ˈɹɛd/
adjective
having the color of tomatoes or blood
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1I ran that red light?
2[alarm] - 2471 just went red.
3Unlike normal red cells which are pliant, sickle cells are rigid and also sticky.
4This dinosaur was red.
5Her face turned red.
white
/ˈhwaɪt/, /ˈwaɪt/
adjective
having the color that is the lightest, like snow
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1She wears white because she's happy.'
2There are long, white, empty beaches here and the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Callanish.
3Whites are out.
4The sun naturally bleaches whites.
5So, basically, juniors wear white today.
blue
/ˈbɫu/
adjective
having the color of the ocean or clear sky at daytime
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1Blues have a whole other strategy.
2Go Blues!
3Do blue.
4Things like neutrals, soft roses, blues are really fabulous right now.
5Favorite color, my favorite color is blue.
black
/ˈbɫæk/
adjective
having the color that is the darkest, like most crows
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1It's a stark difference when you are just one of everybody else versus being the black guy.
2My dad is a black mailman.
3Blacks are up slightly.
4Blacks make up about 35 million.
5Blacks still suffered terrible discrimination.
yellow
/ˈjɛɫoʊ/
adjective
having the color of lemons or the sun
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1- Most yellow the game.
2The light was yellow.
3Light is yellow -
4- Maverick is yellow.
5Bananas are yellow.
grey
/ˈɡɹeɪ/
adjective
having a color between white and black, like most koalas or dolphins
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1People usually get grey hair in their thirties or forties.'
2Calm down Grey.
3Grey: Everyone is gone.
4His face was grey as ashes.
5Is your hair greying too quickly?
orange
/ˈɔɹəndʒ/, /ˈɔɹɪndʒ/
adjective
having the color of carrots or pumpkins
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1A young woman asks for two kilos of oranges.
2A girl brings back some oranges.
3- Maybe blood orange.
4Oranges The good old oranges!
5Prunes, oranges are good.
brown
/ˈbɹaʊn/
adjective
having the color of chocolate ice cream
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1- Brown sugar is brown.
2Our butter is brown.
3The water was brown.
4My hair is brown.
5- We're browning butter.
pink
/ˈpɪŋk/
adjective
having the color of strawberry ice cream
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1Our light stick is pink.
2Is fuchsia pink?
3The dress is pink.
4Two of them are pink.
5My favorite color is pink.
green
/ˈɡɹin/
adjective
having the color of fresh grass or most plant leaves
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1It's a wonderful, big, green garden.
2After all, this is a 2 mm long, bright green ciliate slithering through a field of smaller organisms and debris.
3The patty is green.
4One more color with which brown pairs especially well is green.
5Chopping greens?
purple
/ˈpɝpəɫ/
adjective
having the color of most ripe eggplants
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1The babies turned purple.
2I love purple.
3My wife's favorite color is purple.
4Taro bread is purple.
5Hers are purple.
silver
/ˈsɪɫvɝ/
adjective
having a shiny, grayish-white color or the color of the metal silver
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1China also exported raw materials like jade, silver, and iron.
2One more super-popular car color is silver.
3Silver does have antibacterial properties.
4Silver was an especially profitable export for the Spanish crown.
5Toothpaste can clean silver as well.
gold
/ˈɡoʊɫd/
adjective
having a deep yellow color or the color of gold
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1Trump's name once meant gold.
2MAN: Trump's name once meant gold.
3Gold is that kind of open currency in role playing games, or credits and other forms of currency in sci-fi and modern games.
4Gold dusted mane.
5Lomarr's king wears gold.
beautiful
/ˈbjutəfəɫ/
adjective
extremely pleasing to the mind or senses
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1They had a different language, a beautiful language called Gaelic.
2You can see some of the beautiful buildings from that time in George Square.
3There are beautiful flowers in it, and twelve tall trees.
4Now she is sitting under the most beautiful Christmas tree.
5'I'm going to be your faithful and beautiful wife.'
ugly
/ˈəɡɫi/
adjective
not pleasant to the mind or senses
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1This crotch looks ugly.
2Wrinkles are ugly.
3This gold is ugly.
4This guy is ugly.
5That thing was ugly!
big
/ˈbɪɡ/
adjective
large or above average in size, amount, degree, etc.
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1Mr. Miller had a shop in a big town.
2The shoes on her feet are very big for her.
3He has got a big smile on his face.
4The decline in trading jobs and revenue hurt the big banks and large investment firms.
5I wrote the story about Mexico's biggest pipeline explosion.
small
/ˈsmɔɫ/
adjective
little or below average in size, amount, degree, etc.
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1A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
2Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
3Then he asked for some butter and jam, and she brought a very small serving of butter and a very small jar of jam.
4This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
5But if delta x got a little bit smaller, then the secant line would look like that.
cheap
/ˈtʃip/
adjective
having a low price
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1To get cheap tickets, buy them an hour or two before it begins.
2Manny: For $100 cheaper than the Sega Saturn, it was a no-brainer for gamers.
3Passion is cheap.
4Livability rating: 0/10, but at least the rent is cheap.
5The whole box is cheaper.
expensive
/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/
adjective
having a high price
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1They are expensive because the cost of transporting them is added to the price.
2Hosting is expensive.
3Trains are expensive.
4Extra eyes are expensive.
5Even a trade course is expensive.
clean
/ˈkɫin/
adjective
not having any stains, bacteria, marks, or dirt
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1Clean the tomatillos.
2Clean the area.
3Most retail bakers also clean their own work area and equipment and unload supplies.
4Clean the tip again.
5Cleaning supplies and a lot of food.
dirty
/ˈdɝti/
adjective
having stains, bacteria, marks, or dirt
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1The French capital was dirty.
2"Get your hands dirty."
3If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
4My fingernails are dirty.
5Today's word is dirty.
easy
/ˈizi/
adjective
needing little skill or effort to do or understand
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2A hydroponic system would make it easy for families to grow their own vegetables in a small space.
3That does not mean she had things easy.
4This bird’s eye view makes parking so easy.
5This bird’s eye view makes parking so easy.
difficult
/ˈdɪfəkəɫt/
adjective
needing a lot of work or skill to do, understand, or deal with
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1Today's word is difficult.
2Life remained difficult.
3Travel is difficult!
4Life is difficult.
5Life becomes difficult.
fast
/ˈfæst/
adjective
having a high speed when moving or doing something
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1Money runs out fast.
2Strength training exercises cut down body fat, and fast!
3Your muscles and tissues heal faster.
4Press go fast.
5Eggman run faster.
slow
/ˈsɫoʊ/
adjective
moving, happening, or being done at a speed that is low
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1It's slow, and it needs a lot of information.
2Slow your roll.
3Slow the breath.
4Your reaction time slows.
5Slow your roll, not exactly.
full
/ˈfʊɫ/
adjective
having no space left
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1His language skills are poorly developed, and he doesn't speak in full sentences.
2That will leave you feeling full and satiated for longer.
3hands are full.
4The storage is full.
5My Amazon box was full.
empty
/ˈɛmpti/, /ˈɛmti/
adjective
with no one or nothing inside
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1A city garbage man emptied the garbage can the next day.
2There are long, white, empty beaches here and the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Callanish.
3About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
4Then empty the trash.
5Empty the ice from the glass, and pour in the blended mixture.
good
/ˈɡʊd/, /ɡɪd/
adjective
having a standard or quality that is satisfying
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2A gardener was not a good husband for a Clarkson girl!'
3We just got a really good photographer.
4Even the cats eat good cheese here.
5I never got good grades, wasn't some kid prodigy.
bad
/ˈbæd/
adjective
having a standard or quality that is unsatisfying
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1They believed that bad air caused infections and illnesses.
2It's a joke, a bad joke.
3Remember, I am a bad enemy.
4The man is in a lot worse shape physically.
5Well, in a crass political sense, Judy, it's bad for the president.
high
/ˈhaɪ/
adjective
having a relatively great vertical extent
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2They knew that high heat and chemicals would destroy bacteria.
3When you get out of the cage, you'll fly very high.
4The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
5She could rent out a spare room to offset the higher costs!
low
/ˈɫoʊ/
adjective
not far above the ground or having a small upward extension
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1Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
2At low tide the water is like a mill pond, placid and peaceful.
3Low waisted jeans. -
4A lower GI will keep your blood sugar level low.
5Even the top bunk is lower.
hot
/ˈhɑt/
adjective
having a high temperature or a high degree of heat
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1It is a hot afternoon and Jake is sitting on a bench in Notting Hill.
2Hot take alert!
3Hot take number two.
4My face is hot.
5Those guys were hot.
cold
/ˈkoʊɫd/
adjective
having a temperature lower than the human body's average temperature
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1The water in the lochs is cold and dark.
2Some places get cold.
3My hands are cold.
4Your hands are cold?
5I hate colds.
light
/ˈɫaɪt/
adjective
having enough brightness, especially natural light; not dark
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1When the lights went on, the young man saw that his neighbor was the doctor who had examined him earlier.
2I have a brand new light that I bought, but I'm waiting for all the other equipment to come in so I can actually set it up.
3I ran that red light?
4And over the course of a century, our Galaxy is likely to have dozens of new studs of light.
5So many lights, lights, lights everywhere.
dark
/ˈdɑɹk/
adjective
having very little or no light
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1The water in the lochs is cold and dark.
2Snow is falling, and the sky is darker.
3It looked dark and lonely, surrounded by trees.
4Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
5Our house was dark.
long
/ˈɫɔŋ/
adjective
(of two points) having an above-average or big distance between them
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1Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time.
3The long list could go on.
4After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
5The company had long boasted about the quality of its ingredients.
short
/ˈʃɔɹt/
adjective
having a below-average or small distance between two points
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1So shorts provide price discovery.
2Jinco shorts.
3Wearing shorts.
4Who on earth wears shorts out skiing?
5Boy shorts.
old
/ˈoʊɫd/
adjective
(of a thing) having been used or existing for a long period of time
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1Her son, Peter, was twenty years old then.
2The kind old woman is now dead.
3An old man brings back some apples.
4The jogger puts his hand on the old woman’s arm.
5The old woman looks in her bag.
new
/ˈnju/, /ˈnu/
adjective
recently built, invented, made, etc.
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1Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2I must start a new life among strangers.'
3His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
4I bought new equipment.
5Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
young
/ˈjəŋ/
adjective
still in the earlier stages of life
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1A young person was standing on the other side of the pond.
2A young woman asks for two kilos of oranges.
3A police car stops the young man in North Street.
4Where is that nice young woman?
5Hunter is going to be a stud, this young guy.
old
/ˈoʊɫd/
adjective
(of a person) in the later stages of life
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1Her son, Peter, was twenty years old then.
2The kind old woman is now dead.
3An old man brings back some apples.
4The jogger puts his hand on the old woman’s arm.
5The old woman looks in her bag.
rich
/ˈɹɪtʃ/
adjective
owning a great amount of money or many things that cost a lot
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1Scotland is still a country of rich and poor.
2That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
3Even his sheep were rich.
4Doctors are rich!
5Riches come from risks.
poor
/ˈpuɹ/
adjective
owning a very small amount of money or a very small number of things
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1His speaking and listening skills are poor, but in school he is good at math and spelling.
2Is the poor man one of your family then?
3Scotland is still a country of rich and poor.
4- You've got to be kidding, poor old me?
5Your choice of words was poor.
right
/ˈɹaɪt/
noun
the direction or side that is toward the east when someone or something is facing north
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1The fast food industry grew because it was born at the right time.
2I have no idea what's going on with Michelle right now.
3You know, they have the right to terminate channels as they see fit, to suspend channels as they see fit.
4Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
5When a new drug comes to market, the FDA gives the drug company exclusive rights to produce and market the drug until their patent runs out.
left
/ˈɫɛft/
adjective
toward or located on the same side as the heart of most people
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1This side however, my left ear is better than my right ear
2This left included various figures.
3The kid, in his last game, homers to left!
4Watch your left!
5Look left.
right
/ˈɹaɪt/
adjective
toward or on the east side when we are facing north
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1The fast food industry grew because it was born at the right time.
2I have no idea what's going on with Michelle right now.
3You know, they have the right to terminate channels as they see fit, to suspend channels as they see fit.
4Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
5When a new drug comes to market, the FDA gives the drug company exclusive rights to produce and market the drug until their patent runs out.
wrong
/ˈɹɔŋ/
adjective
not based on facts or the truth
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1'It's the wrong number.'
2This Mets team had wronged his brother.
3that texture is wrong.
4Spelt my name wrong.
5My instincts are wrong!
safe
/ˈseɪf/
adjective
being without danger or harm
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1In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2He could not believe that such a thing could be safe.
3If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
4Stay safe.
5Lets stay safe.
dangerous
/ˈdeɪndʒɝəs/
adjective
capable of harming or injuring a person or destroying or damaging a thing
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1Acrylics are dangerous.
2What makes meningitis so dangerous compared to other diseases is the sheer speed with which it invades a person’s body.
3Migrants are not dangerous.
4This journey is dangerous.
5This guy is dangerous.
same
/ˈseɪm/
adjective
like another thing or person in every way
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1Clock time was the same for everyone living in one time zone.
2Harry and Bob were neighbours, and they worked in the same bank.
3Another brilliant physicist, Alexander Friedmann, had also reached the same conclusion.
4We both laugh at the same jokes!
5- Wow! - Looks same.
different
/ˈdɪfɝənt/, /ˈdɪfɹənt/
adjective
not like another thing or person in form, quality, nature, etc.
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1As a result, people in different locations had different local times.
2Apparently, the human nose has about one thousand different types of olfactory neurons.
3The grandmothers speak a different language.
4People draw different conclusions from this.
5Your fetid flatulence affliction is from a different source.
strong
/ˈstɹɔŋ/
adjective
having great strength or a lot of physical power
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1I no longer felt strong or calm, and I began to cry bitterly.
2Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
3The power of Jumanji is strong.
4That Friday feeling is strong.
5Seven is strong.
weak
/ˈwik/
adjective
not physically strong; having little energy or physical strength
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1Machines were weak.
2The voiced sound is weaker.
3Today's word is weak.
4His father was weak.
5The old boy's back legs look weak.

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