to drink
/ˈdɹɪŋk/
verbto put water, coffe, or other type of liquid inside of our body through our mouth
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1. In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2. - Drink! -
3. drink partner drink.
4. - Drink? -
5. Bacon drink tabs!
mineral water
/mˈɪnɚɹəl wˈɔːɾɚ/
nounwater from underground that contains minerals and gasses, usually bottled and sold
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1. I sell mineral water.
2. We got some organic flour, mineral water from the lakes of Italia, and yeast, boom.
3. It's more mineral water fizzy than seltzer fizzy.
4. Well, there are plenty of fake beverages too, counterfeiters in China have passed off regular tap water as mineral water by just sticking on fake labels.
5. - Schweppes natural mineral water sourced from Australian springs.
to play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verbto perform music on a musical instrument
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1. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2. And nobody can play here - only me!'
3. They don't like playing in the road.
4. If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
5. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
guitar
/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
nouna musical instrument, usually with six strings, played by pulling the strings with the fingers or with a plectrum
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1. I play guitar.
2. Maybe one of you could learn guitar?
3. Play guitar badly.
4. -Flamethrowing guitar.
5. -Flamethrowing guitar.
to like
/ˈɫaɪk/
verbto feel that someone or something is good, enjoyable, or interesting
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1. The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2. "I'd like some more jam, please."
3. Everybody likes his daughter.
4. I like chicken.
5. Grains are plants, like oats, wheat, and barley.
animal
/ˈænəməɫ/
nouna living thing, like a cat or a dog, that can move and needs food to stay alive, but not a plant or a human
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1. In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2. The animals that farmers raised and the crops they planted depended on where they lived.
3. For domestic animals, they had only chickens.
4. Here you can see sea animals like seals.
5. "Do animals have a theory of mind?"
to speak
/ˈspik/
verbto use one's voice to express a particular feeling or to communicate information
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1. The tall lady speaks to Alissa.
2. Actions speak louder than words.
3. The grandmothers speak a different language.
4. The statistics speak for themselves.
5. She speaks her mind.
German
/dʒˈɜːmən/
adjectiverelating to Germany or its people or language
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1. And Germans generally like their system.
2. Germans have a much lower rate of teen pregnancy, a much lower rate of teen abortion, and a much lower rate of HIV incidence.
3. Germans associate the colours of the modern flag with freedom and unity.
4. The vast majority of the population was German.
5. My mom is German.
to watch
/ˈwɑtʃ/, /ˈwɔtʃ/
verbto look at a thing or person and pay attention to it for some time
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1. Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2. Sara is watching her father.
3. They watch the people in the street.
4. If you haven't had a chance to watch El Camino on Netflix yet, make a U-turn and queue it up.
5. Watch the video.
TV
/ˈtiˈvi/, /ˌtɛɫəˈvɪʒən/
nounan electronic device that shows images and videos and plays sounds and people use to watch different programs
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1. Watching TV.
2. TV lied.
3. Just watching TV.
4. Just watching TV.
5. Watching TV.
to cook
/ˈkʊk/
verbto make food with heat
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1. I don't want to cook your food.
2. He cooks the food.
3. So basically batch cook.
4. Cook the meat.
5. -I cook too much.
dinner
/ˈdɪnɝ/
nounthe main meal of the day, eaten either in the middle of the day or in the evening
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1. The stupid horse hospital puts dinner on your table.
2. People hosted dinners for him.
3. Ham dinner kind of sounds yummy.
4. Does your family usually have dinner together?
5. My dad finished dinner early that evening.
to do
/ˈdu/
verbto perform an action or activity that is not mentioned by name
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1. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2. Do you believe the allegations against Roy Moore?
3. In the larger scheme of things, those things don't change your narrative.
4. She does that little laugh.
5. Moreover, the death of a presidential candidate does not create a vacancy.
housework
/ˈhaʊˌswɝk/
nounregular work done in a house, especially cleaning, washing, etc.
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1. At last, housework has become Olympic.
2. You have to do housework.
3. I, something, do some housework.
4. The housework is less tiring now.
5. Cooking even outweighed other housework tasks like ironing or cleaning.
exercise
/ˈɛksɝˌsaɪz/
nouna mental or physical activity that helps keep our mind and body healthy
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1. Once your dog has learned an exercise, you wean them off of the food.
2. Domestic slaves exercised a degree of human agency.
3. Good test inputs should exercise the boundary conditions in your inputs and your algorithm.
4. Exercise is in there.
5. Sometimes, the best treatments are breathing exercises.
homework
/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
nounschoolwork that students are required to do at home
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1. I had homework.
2. I hate homework.
3. The boys are doing homework together.
4. Doing homework this late.
5. - I have homework.
to drive
/ˈdɹaɪv/
verbto control the movement and the speed of a car, bus, truck, etc. when it is moving
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1. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2. What we call behavior is the cognitive inhibition on a biochemical drive.
3. - Drive who in the comments please - Just not that song !
4. - Drive a forklift.
5. Thieves drove two large diesel trucks into a Nintendo distribution center inside an air cargo warehouse.
car
/kɑɹ/
nouna road vehicle that has four wheels, an engine, and a small number of seats for people
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1. A police car stops the young man in North Street.
2. It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
3. 50% of the commercial driver's license tests will include car.
4. Daddy can drive car.
5. Car made a marshmallow gun shooter type thing.
to eat
/ˈit/
verbto put food into the mouth, then chew and swallow it
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1. They are eating breakfast.
2. 'It's not my fault that I can't eat or rest.
3. Do you eat something when you're working on a tedious project?
4. Even the cats eat good cheese here.
5. Eat more chicken.
vegetable
/ˈvɛdʒtəbəɫ/
nouna plant or a part of it that we can eat either raw or cooked
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1. A hydroponic system would make it easy for families to grow their own vegetables in a small space.
2. Also, in winter there are fewer fresh fruits and vegetables in markets.
3. Carotenes and betacarotenes, which are in fruits and vegetables, especially orange vegetables.
4. Chopping vegetables?
5. Some people are cooking vegetables.
to go
/ˈɡoʊ/
verbto travel or move from one location to another location
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1. After lunch, Jimmy and his mother went to the park.
2. A lot of Scottish Americans go back to Scotland as tourists.
3. They went up to the eighth floor.
4. Jake went back to his apartment.
5. The butcher goes through about 15,000 pounds of beef and 9,700 pounds of chicken each week.
cinema
/ˈsɪnəmə/
nouna building where films are shown
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1. Now, I don't go to the cinema a whole lot because of the lack of real deaf access.
2. This idea scared cinemas.
3. Modern cinema is no different in this respect.
4. - Horror cinema also inspired gothic style.
5. But fans of the book flooded cinemas to the tune of $569 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
to have
/ˈhæv/
verbto hold, possess, or own an object or a quality
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1. The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
2. Apparently, the human nose has about one thousand different types of olfactory neurons.
3. One clan in the USA - Clan Donald - has 4,000 families.
4. Another brilliant physicist, Alexander Friedmann, had also reached the same conclusion.
5. The city has a massive migrant workforce.
garden
/ˈɡɑɹdən/
nouna piece of land where flowers, trees, and other plants are grown
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1. Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2. Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
3. It's a wonderful, big, green garden.
4. So he puts a wall around the garden, with a big notice on it.
5. - Gardening. -
to live
/ˈɫɪv/
verbto have your home in a specific place or to share it with a particular person
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1. Now many adult children live with their parents until they are 30 or 40 years old.
2. Over half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities.
3. About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
4. About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
5. Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers as they attended school.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
nouna place with a few rooms in which people live, normally part of a building with other such places on each floor
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1. -This bottle of champagne is flat!
2. 'This table is flat.'
3. The bottom is flat.
4. A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5. Lay the console flat
to listen
/ˈɫɪsən/
verbto give our attention to the sound a person or thing is making
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1. We listened to the laughing and talking in the hall, as the guests were welcomed by their host and his housekeeper.
2. Why do we listen to her?
3. And there's also a whole other category of treatment that's pretty different from the talking and listening that goes on in psychotherapy.
4. - Listen.
5. - Listen.
music
/ˈmjuzɪk/
nouna series of sounds made by instruments or voices, arranged in a way that is pleasant or exciting to listen to
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1. He began to compose music at age three.
2. Scans show that the brain is much more actively engaged with music than with speech.
3. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
4. Music can brighten up a boring clip.
5. One, play music.
to need
/ˈnid/
verbto want something or someone that we must have if we want to do or be something
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1. Railroads needed to create an official time system to link the rail system together.
2. I need a hug.
3. So we needed refineries, which were basically giant chemical plants.
4. We do not need psychotherapy.
5. But, crucially, the company needs to answer for what happened here.
new
/ˈnju/, /ˈnu/
adjectiverecently built, invented, made, etc.
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1. Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2. I must start a new life among strangers.'
3. His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
4. I bought new equipment.
5. Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
phone
/ˈfoʊn/
nounan electronic device used to talk to a person who is at a different location
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1. He answers the phone.
2. No wonder phones cost so much these days!
3. Five billion of those people now have phones.
4. Or phone your love’s Mom
5. Phone dies.
to play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verbto participate in a game or sport to compete with another individual or another team
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1. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2. And nobody can play here - only me!'
3. They don't like playing in the road.
4. If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
5. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
tennis
/ˈtɛnəs/, /ˈtɛnɪs/
nouna sport played with rackets by two or four players, who hit a small ball backwards and forwards over a net on a marked court
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1. I like tennis.
2. Play tennis.
3. Play tennis.
4. They played tennis.
5. For the most intensive hand-eye coordination training, play tennis.
to read
/riːd/
verbto look at written or printed words and understand their meaning
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1. The two men read the letter again.
2. And I'm going to read a poem first, an elegy called "Burial."
3. During a 60 hour playthrough the kill counter reads precisely 21,369 space aliens , murderous robots and giant insects.
4. - Read a book, Leo.
5. - Read a book, people!
book
/ˈbʊk/
nouna set of printed pages that are held together in a cover so that we can turn them and read them
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1. I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2. He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
3. Errol Morris wrote a really great book.
4. He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
5. Books make a great gift for babies of all ages.
to say
/ˈseɪ/
verbto use words and our voice to show what we are thinking or feeling
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1. They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
2. On the way, the driver said to Harry politely, 'Could you please tell me why we are doing all these things?
3. One day one of the girls in her class said to her, "Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray before his mustache and beard do?"
4. "This is my first trip abroad without my parents," says Paul.
5. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
sorry
/ˈsɑɹi/
adjectivefeeling ashamed or sad about something that one has or has not done
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1. Sorry, beg your pardon.
2. Sorry, lost my cool.
3. Sorry, I´ll be back in a minute.
4. Sorry, I´ll be back in a minute.
5. Sorry you guys got toilet water.
to study
/ˈstədi/
verbto spend time to learn about certain subjects by reading books, going to school, etc.
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1. Dozens of studies have confirmed that psychotherapy is both effective and efficacious.
2. Study medieval Church history.
3. Study modern Church traditions.
4. So Saul's daughter studied law.
5. Study the script.
history
/ˈhɪstɝi/, /ˈhɪstɹi/
nounall the events of the past
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1. Throughout history, human behavior seemed impossible to understand.
2. Museums help preserve human history by collecting works of art.
3. That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
4. We also wrapped up with a quick history of the origins and development of astronomy, from ancient observers to the Hubble Space Telescope.
5. The desk has history.
to take
/ˈteɪk/
verbto reach for something and hold it
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1. The company will begin taking pre-orders for the Model 3 in March.
2. Addicts take drugs to escape their problems.
3. When I do fieldwork, I always take photos.
4. It is their take on the dual-screen devices trend that has been building up for a time.
5. We didn’t even have time to take evasive action.
umbrella
/ˈəmˌbɹɛɫə/, /əmˈbɹɛɫə/
nounan object with a circular folding frame covered in cloth, used as protection against rain or hot sun
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1. Hundreds of years ago, umbrellas were symbols of power and authority.
2. Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
3. Umbrellas work really well because of excellent ventilation.
4. By the way, female marines can hold umbrellas.
5. The Tod's umbrella includes brands like Hogan, Fay, or Roger Vivier.
to want
/ˈwɑnt/, /ˈwɔnt/
verbto wish to do or have something
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1. After a while, companies wanted to find a way to include more information in the bar code.
2. He wants to look for water.
3. She doesn't want to lose her grandmother again.
4. I want to get a good job!
5. But at the same time, you want to also have some controls over utilization.
coffee
/ˈkɑfi/, /ˈkɔfi/
nouna drink that is made from mixing water with some crushed seeds, called coffee beans, usually hot and brown in color
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1. Coffee fires a few shots at Thomas.
2. Also coffee, coffee is extremely important.
3. The incompetent steward is about to pour tepid coffee into your crotch.
4. Other people may love coffee.
5. "Some people drink coffee that late!"
to wear
/ˈwɛɹ/
verbto have something such as clothes, shoes, etc. on your body
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1. What color does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
2. She wears white because she's happy.'
3. They are all wearing 3D glasses.
4. Wear a mask!
5. - That one was wearing a Lady Gaga costume.
glasses
/ˈɡɫæsəz/, /ˈɡɫæsɪz/
nouna pair of lenses set in a frame that rests on the nose and ears, which we wear to see more clearly
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1. So someone this weekend shared Google Glass with me, Google Glass, Glasses, Glass, Glasses?
2. So someone this weekend shared Google Glass with me, Google Glass, Glasses, Glass, Glasses?
3. All bundled up, you know, HOODIE, GLASSES, Big Boots.
4. It is a very cruel episode for Don Quixote, but together with the fight with the Knight of the Looking-Glasses, these are two victories for Don Quixote, which together with the knowledge that is now in a book, add to his diluted sense of importance and of accomplishments.
5. How to Separate Two Glasses that Are Stuck Together.
to work
/ˈwɝk/
verbto do a job or task, usually for a company or organization, in order to receive money
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1. The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time.
2. What time do you finish work?'
3. While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
4. Normally, cells work together to form structures like organs, tissue or elements of the immune system.
5. I’ll spare you the work.
office
/ˈɔfɪs/
nouna building, a room, or a place where people work, particularly behind a desk
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1. His name was George Watts, and he worked in a bank near her office.
2. Office is right there.
3. They had offices different places.
4. The next word is office.
5. They called offices.
