to drink
/ˈdɹɪŋk/
verb
to put water, coffe, or other type of liquid inside of our body through our mouth
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1In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2- Drink! -
3drink partner drink.
4- Drink? -
5Bacon drink tabs!
mineral water
/mˈɪnɚɹəl wˈɔːɾɚ/
noun
water from underground that contains minerals and gasses, usually bottled and sold
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1I sell mineral water.
2We got some organic flour, mineral water from the lakes of Italia, and yeast, boom.
3It's more mineral water fizzy than seltzer fizzy.
4Well, 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/
verb
to perform music on a musical instrument
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1One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2And nobody can play here - only me!'
3They don't like playing in the road.
4If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
5You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
guitar
/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
noun
a musical instrument, usually with six strings, played by pulling the strings with the fingers or with a plectrum
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1I play guitar.
2Maybe one of you could learn guitar?
3Play guitar badly.
4-Flamethrowing guitar.
5-Flamethrowing guitar.
to like
/ˈɫaɪk/
verb
to feel that someone or something is good, enjoyable, or interesting
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1The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2"I'd like some more jam, please."
3Everybody likes his daughter.
4I like chicken.
5Grains are plants, like oats, wheat, and barley.
animal
/ˈænəməɫ/
noun
a 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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1In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2The animals that farmers raised and the crops they planted depended on where they lived.
3For domestic animals, they had only chickens.
4Here you can see sea animals like seals.
5"Do animals have a theory of mind?"
to speak
/ˈspik/
verb
to use one's voice to express a particular feeling or to communicate information
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1The tall lady speaks to Alissa.
2Actions speak louder than words.
3The grandmothers speak a different language.
4The statistics speak for themselves.
5She speaks her mind.
German
/dʒˈɜːmən/
adjective
relating to Germany or its people or language
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1And Germans generally like their system.
2Germans have a much lower rate of teen pregnancy, a much lower rate of teen abortion, and a much lower rate of HIV incidence.
3Germans associate the colours of the modern flag with freedom and unity.
4The vast majority of the population was German.
5My mom is German.
to watch
/ˈwɑtʃ/, /ˈwɔtʃ/
verb
to look at a thing or person and pay attention to it for some time
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1Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2Sara is watching her father.
3They watch the people in the street.
4If you haven't had a chance to watch El Camino on Netflix yet, make a U-turn and queue it up.
5Watch the video.
TV
/ˈtiˈvi/, /ˌtɛɫəˈvɪʒən/
noun
an electronic device that shows images and videos and plays sounds and people use to watch different programs
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1Watching TV.
2TV lied.
3Just watching TV.
4Just watching TV.
5Watching TV.
to cook
/ˈkʊk/
verb
to make food with heat
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1I don't want to cook your food.
2He cooks the food.
3So basically batch cook.
4Cook the meat.
5-I cook too much.
dinner
/ˈdɪnɝ/
noun
the main meal of the day, eaten either in the middle of the day or in the evening
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1The stupid horse hospital puts dinner on your table.
2People hosted dinners for him.
3Ham dinner kind of sounds yummy.
4Does your family usually have dinner together?
5My dad finished dinner early that evening.
to do
/ˈdu/
verb
to perform an action or activity that is not mentioned by name
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1Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2Do you believe the allegations against Roy Moore?
3In the larger scheme of things, those things don't change your narrative.
4She does that little laugh.
5Moreover, the death of a presidential candidate does not create a vacancy.
housework
/ˈhaʊˌswɝk/
noun
regular work done in a house, especially cleaning, washing, etc.
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1At last, housework has become Olympic.
2You have to do housework.
3I, something, do some housework.
4The housework is less tiring now.
5Cooking even outweighed other housework tasks like ironing or cleaning.
exercise
/ˈɛksɝˌsaɪz/
noun
a mental or physical activity that helps keep our mind and body healthy
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1Once your dog has learned an exercise, you wean them off of the food.
2Domestic slaves exercised a degree of human agency.
3Good test inputs should exercise the boundary conditions in your inputs and your algorithm.
4Exercise is in there.
5Sometimes, the best treatments are breathing exercises.
homework
/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
noun
schoolwork that students are required to do at home
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1I had homework.
2I hate homework.
3The boys are doing homework together.
4Doing homework this late.
5- I have homework.
to drive
/ˈdɹaɪv/
verb
to control the movement and the speed of a car, bus, truck, etc. when it is moving
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1Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2What 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.
5Thieves drove two large diesel trucks into a Nintendo distribution center inside an air cargo warehouse.
car
/kɑɹ/
noun
a road vehicle that has four wheels, an engine, and a small number of seats for people
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1A police car stops the young man in North Street.
2It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
350% of the commercial driver's license tests will include car.
4Daddy can drive car.
5Car made a marshmallow gun shooter type thing.
to eat
/ˈit/
verb
to put food into the mouth, then chew and swallow it
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1They are eating breakfast.
2'It's not my fault that I can't eat or rest.
3Do you eat something when you're working on a tedious project?
4Even the cats eat good cheese here.
5Eat more chicken.
vegetable
/ˈvɛdʒtəbəɫ/
noun
a plant or a part of it that we can eat either raw or cooked
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1A hydroponic system would make it easy for families to grow their own vegetables in a small space.
2Also, in winter there are fewer fresh fruits and vegetables in markets.
3Carotenes and betacarotenes, which are in fruits and vegetables, especially orange vegetables.
4Chopping vegetables?
5Some people are cooking vegetables.
to go
/ˈɡoʊ/
verb
to travel or move from one location to another location
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1After lunch, Jimmy and his mother went to the park.
2A lot of Scottish Americans go back to Scotland as tourists.
3They went up to the eighth floor.
4Jake went back to his apartment.
5The butcher goes through about 15,000 pounds of beef and 9,700 pounds of chicken each week.
cinema
/ˈsɪnəmə/
noun
a building where films are shown
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1Now, I don't go to the cinema a whole lot because of the lack of real deaf access.
2This idea scared cinemas.
3Modern cinema is no different in this respect.
4- Horror cinema also inspired gothic style.
5But fans of the book flooded cinemas to the tune of $569 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.
to have
/ˈhæv/
verb
to hold, possess, or own an object or a quality
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1The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
2Apparently, the human nose has about one thousand different types of olfactory neurons.
3One clan in the USA - Clan Donald - has 4,000 families.
4Another brilliant physicist, Alexander Friedmann, had also reached the same conclusion.
5The city has a massive migrant workforce.
garden
/ˈɡɑɹdən/
noun
a piece of land where flowers, trees, and other plants are grown
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1Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
3It's a wonderful, big, green garden.
4So he puts a wall around the garden, with a big notice on it.
5- Gardening. -
to live
/ˈɫɪv/
verb
to have your home in a specific place or to share it with a particular person
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1Now many adult children live with their parents until they are 30 or 40 years old.
2Over half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities.
3About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
4About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
5Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers as they attended school.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
noun
a 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.'
3The bottom is flat.
4A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5Lay the console flat
to listen
/ˈɫɪsən/
verb
to give our attention to the sound a person or thing is making
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1We listened to the laughing and talking in the hall, as the guests were welcomed by their host and his housekeeper.
2Why do we listen to her?
3And 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/
noun
a series of sounds made by instruments or voices, arranged in a way that is pleasant or exciting to listen to
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1He began to compose music at age three.
2Scans show that the brain is much more actively engaged with music than with speech.
3You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
4Music can brighten up a boring clip.
5One, play music.
to need
/ˈnid/
verb
to want something or someone that we must have if we want to do or be something
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1Railroads needed to create an official time system to link the rail system together.
2I need a hug.
3So we needed refineries, which were basically giant chemical plants.
4We do not need psychotherapy.
5But, crucially, the company needs to answer for what happened here.
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.
phone
/ˈfoʊn/
noun
an electronic device used to talk to a person who is at a different location
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1He answers the phone.
2No wonder phones cost so much these days!
3Five billion of those people now have phones.
4Or phone your love’s Mom
5Phone dies.
to play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verb
to participate in a game or sport to compete with another individual or another team
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1One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2And nobody can play here - only me!'
3They don't like playing in the road.
4If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
5You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
tennis
/ˈtɛnəs/, /ˈtɛnɪs/
noun
a 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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1I like tennis.
2Play tennis.
3Play tennis.
4They played tennis.
5For the most intensive hand-eye coordination training, play tennis.
to read
/riːd/
verb
to look at written or printed words and understand their meaning
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1The two men read the letter again.
2And I'm going to read a poem first, an elegy called "Burial."
3During 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/
noun
a set of printed pages that are held together in a cover so that we can turn them and read them
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1I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
3Errol Morris wrote a really great book.
4He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
5Books make a great gift for babies of all ages.
to say
/ˈseɪ/
verb
to use words and our voice to show what we are thinking or feeling
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1They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
2On the way, the driver said to Harry politely, 'Could you please tell me why we are doing all these things?
3One 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.
5Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
sorry
/ˈsɑɹi/
adjective
feeling ashamed or sad about something that one has or has not done
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1Sorry, beg your pardon.
2Sorry, lost my cool.
3Sorry, I´ll be back in a minute.
4Sorry, I´ll be back in a minute.
5Sorry you guys got toilet water.
to study
/ˈstədi/
verb
to spend time to learn about certain subjects by reading books, going to school, etc.
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1Dozens of studies have confirmed that psychotherapy is both effective and efficacious.
2Study medieval Church history.
3Study modern Church traditions.
4So Saul's daughter studied law.
5Study the script.
history
/ˈhɪstɝi/, /ˈhɪstɹi/
noun
all the events of the past
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1Throughout history, human behavior seemed impossible to understand.
2Museums help preserve human history by collecting works of art.
3That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
4We also wrapped up with a quick history of the origins and development of astronomy, from ancient observers to the Hubble Space Telescope.
5The desk has history.
to take
/ˈteɪk/
verb
to reach for something and hold it
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1The company will begin taking pre-orders for the Model 3 in March.
2Addicts take drugs to escape their problems.
3When I do fieldwork, I always take photos.
4It is their take on the dual-screen devices trend that has been building up for a time.
5We didn’t even have time to take evasive action.
umbrella
/ˈəmˌbɹɛɫə/, /əmˈbɹɛɫə/
noun
an object with a circular folding frame covered in cloth, used as protection against rain or hot sun
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1Hundreds of years ago, umbrellas were symbols of power and authority.
2Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
3Umbrellas work really well because of excellent ventilation.
4By the way, female marines can hold umbrellas.
5The Tod's umbrella includes brands like Hogan, Fay, or Roger Vivier.
to want
/ˈwɑnt/, /ˈwɔnt/
verb
to wish to do or have something
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1After a while, companies wanted to find a way to include more information in the bar code.
2He wants to look for water.
3She doesn't want to lose her grandmother again.
4I want to get a good job!
5But at the same time, you want to also have some controls over utilization.
coffee
/ˈkɑfi/, /ˈkɔfi/
noun
a drink that is made from mixing water with some crushed seeds, called coffee beans, usually hot and brown in color
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1Coffee fires a few shots at Thomas.
2Also coffee, coffee is extremely important.
3The incompetent steward is about to pour tepid coffee into your crotch.
4Other people may love coffee.
5"Some people drink coffee that late!"
to wear
/ˈwɛɹ/
verb
to have something such as clothes, shoes, etc. on your body
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1What color does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
2She wears white because she's happy.'
3They are all wearing 3D glasses.
4Wear a mask!
5- That one was wearing a Lady Gaga costume.
glasses
/ˈɡɫæsəz/, /ˈɡɫæsɪz/
noun
a 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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1So someone this weekend shared Google Glass with me, Google Glass, Glasses, Glass, Glasses?
2So someone this weekend shared Google Glass with me, Google Glass, Glasses, Glass, Glasses?
3All bundled up, you know, HOODIE, GLASSES, Big Boots.
4It 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.
5How to Separate Two Glasses that Are Stuck Together.
to work
/ˈwɝk/
verb
to do a job or task, usually for a company or organization, in order to receive money
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1The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time.
2What time do you finish work?'
3While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
4Normally, cells work together to form structures like organs, tissue or elements of the immune system.
5I’ll spare you the work.
office
/ˈɔfɪs/
noun
a building, a room, or a place where people work, particularly behind a desk
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1His name was George Watts, and he worked in a bank near her office.
2Office is right there.
3They had offices different places.
4The next word is office.
5They called offices.

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