to buy
/ˈbaɪ/
verbto get something in exchange for paying money
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1. Money from a city job helped them buy these things.
2. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things.
3. To get cheap tickets, buy them an hour or two before it begins.
4. I bought new equipment.
5. It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
newspaper
/ˈnuzˌpeɪpɝ/
nouna printed publication or a set of large folded sheets of printed paper that contain news, articles, ads, etc., usually issued daily or weekly
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1. People were just buying newspapers.
2. Newspapers went out of business.
3. The Venetian gazette was a precursor to the modern newspaper.
4. Newspapers had circulations in the low thousands.
5. Newspapers also have sections.
to call
/ˈkɔɫ/
verbto telephone a place or person
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1. This is called 'Trooping the Colour'.
2. So, he calls and apparently this woman never got a reply.
3. What we call behavior is the cognitive inhibition on a biochemical drive.
4. His attorney called the charges wholly without merit.
5. A male baby horse is called a colt.
to phone
/ˈfoʊn/
verbto make a phone call or try to reach someone on the phone
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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.
taxi
/ˈtæksi/
nouna car that has a driver who gets paid for taking people to places
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1. And now, with the rise of Lyft and Uber, taxis represent just 12.5%.
2. Just taxiing.
3. Jo maxi simply means taxi.
4. You use taxi.
5. Soon, even flying taxi.
to dance
/ˈdæns/
verbto move the body to music in a special way
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1. The tanks danced.
2. - Dance the waltz!
3. My colors dance.
4. And blue light means dance.
5. Break dance!
tango
/ˈtæŋɡoʊ/
nouna piece of music written for a South American dance called tango in which a male and female hold hands tightly and walk in the same direction
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1. Give me two tangos.
2. This process, this blueprint for meta-learning, applies to tango.
3. You got eight tangos north of you.
4. This is Tango.
5. Dance the tango with them instead.
to draw
/ˈdɹɔ/
verbto make a picture of something using a pencil, pen, etc. without painting it
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1. One day he was trying to draw a picture of his father on the blackboard.
2. People draw different conclusions from this.
3. When he speaks about matters of chivalry he uses archaic words drawn from the romances of chivalry.
4. - Drawing a hat?
5. - Drawing a turtle first.
picture
/ˈpɪktʃɝ/
nouna visual representation of a scene, person, etc. produced by a camera
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1. The police can also look at pictures made by security cameras.
2. One day he was trying to draw a picture of his father on the blackboard.
3. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them.
4. This stands in stark contrast to the picture we get from Camus, who said that we are all the determiners of the value of our own lives.
5. His pictures described as archaic, tribal, and of elemental power.
to find
/ˈfaɪnd/
verbto randomly discover someone or something, particularly in a way that is surprising or unexpected
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1. After a while, companies wanted to find a way to include more information in the bar code.
2. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
3. Ellen, please ask a maid to find some dry clothes for me, and then I'll go on to the village.
4. An improvised explosive device has been found at the Capitol.
5. His suggestions never made any impact, until King Leopold II found Stanley’s work.
parking space
/pˈɑːɹkɪŋ spˈeɪs/
nounan area designed so that people could leave their cars or other vehicles there for a period of time
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to forget
/fɝˈɡɛt/, /fɔɹˈɡɛt/
verbto not be able to remember something or someone from the past
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1. Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2. Lost in the world of imagination, I forgot my sad, lonely existence for a while, and was happy.
3. Forget the watch, Jon!
4. Forget the outside noise.
5. Forget quarantine.
somebody
/ˈsəmˌbɑdi/, /ˈsəmbəˌdi/
pronouna person whose identity is not specified or known
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1. Somebody get these proteins a movie contract.
2. "Somebody That I Used To Know."
3. They bilked people out of a million dollars, and when they just went broke recently, they still owe somebody else another million euros.
4. - Somebody lost their thing.
5. Somebody sent our condolences card.
name
/ˈneɪm/
nounthe word someone or something is called or known by
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1. His name was Franz Joseph Gall.
2. The new girl was eight years old too, and her name was Joan.
3. The new girl was eight years old too, and her name was Joan.
4. Her name is Sara.
5. Google began organizing its health initiatives under the name Google Health in 2018, and now it boasts over 500 employees.
to give
/ˈɡɪv/
verbto offer a thing to a person
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1. The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
2. Open an incognito window if you don't want to give them credit and do your transaction that way.
3. That sheer expansion of scale gives me perspective.
4. When 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.
5. It's pliant but it doesn't give like a yeast dough.
flower
/ˈfɫaʊɝ/
nounthe colored or white part of a plant from which the seed or fruit develops
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1. There are beautiful flowers in it, and twelve tall trees.
2. Wear flowers?
3. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
4. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
5. - Loves flowers.
to hear
/ˈhiɹ/
verbto notice the sound a person or thing is making
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1. There is now a surgical alternative to improve hearing without an external device.
2. Suddenly he hears some men.
3. Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
4. I never heard you rant like that.
5. When people hear your accent?
noise
/ˈnɔɪz/
nounsounds that are usually unwanted or loud
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1. Only the trees made noises above him.
2. Mostly noise complaints.
3. Any mouth noises.
4. Make noise!
5. These things are making noise again.
to help
/ˈhɛɫp/
verbto give someone what they need or to make doing something easier or possible for them
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1. Some bacteria help humans in many ways.
2. The penicillin helped the patient's body destroy harmful bacteria.
3. Money from a city job helped them buy these things.
4. Dad is going to need help when he leaves hospital.
5. Children must help their parents.
to leave
/ˈɫiv/
verbto go away from somewhere or someone
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1. Dad is going to need help when he leaves hospital.
2. 'You shouldn't leave a stranger with them.
3. They use enzymes to digest their food, and what they leave behind are byproducts of that process.
4. Many migrants had left to escape poverty and violence.
5. You cover for them at work while they're on sick leave.
bag
/ˈbæɡ/
nounsomething made of leather, cloth, plastic, or paper that we use to carry things in, particularly when we are traveling or shopping
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1. She was late and in a hurry, but the people searched her and her bag carefully.
2. The old woman looks in her bag.
3. Kenny gets off the bus with his bag.
4. Apple bags?
5. Sleeping bag.
train
/ˈtɹeɪn/
nouna series of connected carriages or wagons pulled along a railroad line by a locomotive
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1. A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train.
2. He is travelling to Paris on the Eurostar train.
3. Across the road, a train waited.
4. Training the abs.
5. Train, train, train some more.
to look for
/lˈʊk fɔːɹ/
verbto try to find something or someone
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1. He wants to look for water.
2. But I was looking for someone else.
3. Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
4. Looking for?
5. More adaptive types look for a solution inside the box.
key
/ˈki/
nouna specially shaped piece of metal used for locking or unlocking a door, starting a car, etc.
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1. - Yeah. - System keys quick guide.
2. Occasionally, composers will change keys.
3. So composers do change keys.
4. Do you guys want keys?
5. Confidence is key.
to meet
/ˈmit/
verbto come together in a place with others to do something special
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1. Merchants from all over the continent met to trade their goods, but there was one problem: too many currencies in circulation.
2. Meanwhile his halting, gauche attempts to seduce women were met by ridicule and rejection.
3. Guys, meet video game researcher and level-30 demon slayer, Dr. Patrick Markey.
4. yes guys, meet my blogging camera. -
5. - Meet a giant fish like a boss.
friend
/ˈfɹɛnd/
nounsomeone we know well, like a lot, and trust, but normally they are not part of our family
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1. When he finally went on his sleepy way home, Tom felt sure that he had just made an excellent new friend.
2. Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
3. On top of that, Bertha’s friends would fuss over him as a toddler and compliment his skin wherever he went.
4. Friends just got here.
5. - Make friends.
to paint
/ˈpeɪnt/
verbto cover a surface or object with a colored liquid, usually for decoration
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1. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them.
2. Again, contemporary science paints an interesting portrait here.
3. Let´s paint a big yellow sun.
4. And in fact, students, one Halloween, painted his parking place that light blue.
5. Narrator: Aramayo's measurements painted a vivid picture of the sloth in motion.
to remember
/ɹiˈmɛmbɝ/, /ɹɪˈmɛmbɝ/
verbto bring a type of information from the past to our mind again
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1. Remember, I am a bad enemy.
2. - Remember the Luther house?
3. - Remember that thing?
4. Remember that thing?
5. So just remember, my girlfriend's mom.
to run
/ˈɹən/
verbto move using our legs, faster than we usually walk, in a way that both feet are never on the ground at the same time
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1. The government effectively runs the whole thing.
2. In 2009, two researchers ran a simple experiment.
3. The lunatics are running the asylum.
4. His most successful business as a teenager was running a lottery.
5. Sylvia Woods' family still runs the place.
race
/ˈɹeɪs/
nouna competition between people, vehicles, animals, etc. to find out which one is the fastest and finishes first
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1. That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
2. Race the car?
3. Races just threaded through.
4. Race clearly matters.
5. This sack, race combines strength, speed and stamina.
to see
/ˈsi/
verbto notice a thing or person with our eyes
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1. Here you can see sea animals like seals.
2. After three months, the governor saw that Yusuf learned quickly.
3. Jake sees a camera on the table.
4. The governor saw a surge in popularity.
5. Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
film
/ˈfɪɫm/
nouna story shown on television or in a cinema with sound and a series of pictures that move
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1. Five soldiers filmed the entire time.
2. Film burns.
3. Maybe film some musicallys.
4. Filming a video.
5. Do you guys have film?
to send
/ˈsɛnd/
verbto take something to a specific location or making arrangements for it to be taken there, particularly by post
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1. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad as the final prophet to bring people back to the one true religion, which involves the worship of, and submission to, a single and all-powerful God.
2. Do your friends send those pictures?
3. - Send a couple of emails.
4. Time to accidentally send these texts.
5. Send those texts.
text message
/tˈɛkst mˈɛsɪdʒ/
nouna written message that one sends or receives using a mobile phone
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1. Text message scams are also illegal.
2. And the same thing happens with text messages.
3. Here are the text messages.
4. Text messages are very short.
5. text message from the guy she’s into.
to sing
/ˈsɪŋ/
verbto use our voice in order to produce musical sounds in the form of a tune or song
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1. He didn’t sing, but instead delivered a monologue during one of the band’s songs.
2. Let´s sing a song together.
3. In most music, the performer sings the words.
4. A Bollywood actor sang a line on a DVD in a cafe.
5. ♫ hotdogs ♫ hotdogs Sing it.
song
/ˈsɔŋ/
nouna piece of music that has words
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1. It was a very calm response and I just wanted to share my love for the song.
2. He didn’t sing, but instead delivered a monologue during one of the band’s songs.
3. this process of enculturation can even transform songs.
4. People sang songs.
5. Songs have lyrics.
to swim
/ˈswɪm/
verbto move through water by moving parts of the body, especially the limbs
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1. Imagine that a boat capsizes, and 10 survivors swim to shore on a deserted island.
2. Swim the river.
3. Swim your way out
4. People swim here.
5. These tuna swim the entire ocean.
sea
/ˈsi/
nounthe salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface and surrounds its continents and islands
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1. There is oil and gas in the sea between Scotland and Norway.
2. Here you can see sea animals like seals.
3. My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
4. Can sea lice actually kill salmon?
5. "see | sea".
photo
/ˈfoʊˌtoʊ/
nounan image captured by a camera
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1. When I do fieldwork, I always take photos.
2. Photos only has one widget.
3. Another tip, add photos.
4. Take photos.
5. Photos always saves the original version of this.
to talk
/ˈtɔk/
verbto tell someone about the information, feelings, or ideas that we have
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1. We can talk about the intensity of an odor or the persistence of an odor.
2. A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train.
3. People from every town and city in Scotland come here to talk about their country.
4. They have a talk with him.
5. And he had kind of a drawl when he talked.
to tell
/ˈtɛɫ/
verbto use words and give someone information
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1. She told me that my mother died in hospital.
2. During that time, his mother told him folktales and true tales of horror, including her experiences during an outbreak of cholera in 1832.
3. We're told that the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 231.
4. Every grain tells a story.
5. Becky tells the guys to join her in aerobics class.
secret
/ˈsikɹət/, /ˈsikɹɪt/
nouna thing or fact that is known and seen by only one person or a few people and hidden from others
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1. - This dude has secrets.
2. "Women have secrets."
3. We all have secrets.
4. Number two, secrets create friends.
5. Your nose has secrets too.
to try
/ˈtɹaɪ/
verbto make an effort or attempt to do or have something
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1. One day he was trying to draw a picture of his father on the blackboard.
2. We don't really have time dealing with random people coming up to us and trying to show off their signing skills.
3. You can get to this point if you try and push through your fears and inhibitions and force the social interactions.
4. We tried to have the Coast Guard interrupt those boats, but they would have capsized.
5. And at the same time, I'm on a journey of spirituality, trying to figure out my roots, being based in evangelical Christianity.
to do
/ˈdu/
verb(dummy verb) to work on something in order to realize it or bring it to a desired state
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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.
something
/ˈsəmθɪŋ/
pronounused to mention a thing that is not known or named
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1. Art thieves believe they can easily steal something from a small museum without being seen.
2. What I do worry about is something else, which is a geopolitical cold war.
3. It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
4. Do you eat something when you're working on a tedious project?
5. - What if I go to a polo match or something
difficult
/ˈdɪfəkəɫt/
adjectiveneeding a lot of work or skill to do, understand, or deal with
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1. Today's word is difficult.
2. Life remained difficult.
3. Travel is difficult!
4. Life is difficult.
5. Life becomes difficult.
to use
/ˈjus/, /ˈjuz/
verbto employ a particular thing or do something with an object, method, etc. to achieve a specific result
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1. Many years ago, people used the sun to set their clocks.
2. She would use hand gestures too.
3. So, basically, you can use it as a regular alarm clock.
4. They use enzymes to digest their food, and what they leave behind are byproducts of that process.
5. When he speaks about matters of chivalry he uses archaic words drawn from the romances of chivalry.
the Internet
/ˈɪntɚnˌɛt/
nouna global computer network that allows users around the world to communicate with each other and exchange information
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1. I’m addicted to internet personality tests.
2. Internet is good for this.
3. Some people have to use the internet.
4. Internet likes colorful dessert.
5. The internet has its own set of laws.
to wait
/ˈweɪt/
verbto not leave until a person or thing is ready or present or something happens
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1. Some people wait in line for hours for their favorite rides.
2. Oh, wait a minute.
3. Across the road, a train waited.
4. The family waited in the sitting room.
5. Wait a minute.
bus
/ˈbəs/
nouna large vehicle that carries many passengers by road
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1. Kenny gets off the bus with his bag.
2. I miss buses.
3. People use buses every day.
4. Then our final word is bus.
5. Bus is coming.
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.
gym
/ˈdʒɪm/
nouna place with special equipment that people go to exercise or play sports
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1. The gym launched the Planet Fitness app in the summer of 2019.
2. But people hate gyms.
3. create a gym.
4. Many gyms have smoothie or juice bars.
5. The other big question is gym clothes.
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.
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 play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verb(of a music player, a musical instrument, etc.) to generate recorded images or sounds
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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 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 have
/ˈhæv/
verbto eat or drink something
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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.
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!"
