to arrive
/ɝˈaɪv/
verbto reach a location, particularly as an end to a journey
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1. He quickly goes behind a tree before the men arrive.
2. He sees a girl arrive on a motorcycle.
3. You fill up your tank and jump forward again, arriving with 10 units of fuel in your tank.
4. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding.
5. In the lions' territory, The cubs' father arrives back from his sojourn.
comfortable
/ˈkəmfɝtəbəɫ/
adjectivephysically feeling relaxed and not feeling pain, stress, fear, etc.
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1. The socks are comfortable.
2. 5 by 5 sounds comfortable.
3. The bed is comfortable?
4. The bed is comfortable?
5. The cut in the back is comfortable.
to decide
/ˌdɪˈsaɪd/
verbto think carefully about different things and choose one of them
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1. The team must also decide if the focus will be on domestic sales or if the baby food will be exported to foreign countries.
2. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
3. In 1947 Franco announced a referendum to let the Spanish people decide.
4. Okay guys, the final round will decide.
5. You guys decide?
desert
/ˈdɛzɝt/, /dɪˈzɝt/
nouna large, dry area of land with very few plants, typically one covered with sand
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1. The house was deserted.
2. We have desert.
3. Deserts cover 33% of the Earth's land surface.
4. Deserts are also extremely valuable for mineral production.
5. Open oceans are deserts.
inside
/ˈɪnˌsaɪd/, /ˌɪnˈsaɪd/
adverbin or into a room or building; within a building
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1. The control wire connects to a coil of wire inside the relay.
2. The line was inside not outside in the direct sunlight.
3. Nowadays, most people just put paper inside.
4. Boys, come inside.
5. Boys, come inside.
into
/ˈɪntu/, /ɪnˈtu/, /ɪntə/
prepositionto the inner part or a position inside an area or place
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1. They divided the day into 12 hours.
2. The committee divided the earth into 24 time zones.
3. I follow a group of firefighters with one of Brazil’s environmental agencies into a biological reserve.
4. The angry mass killer was converted into an evangelical pacifist.
5. No man or monster has slithered their way into our hearts quite like the snake-haired seductress with the obsidian stare.
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.
mountain
/ˈmaʊntən/
nouna very tall and large natural structure that looks like a huge hill with a pointed top that is often covered in snow
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1. I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2. We got mountains.
3. Mountain pose.
4. And mountains leave no room for mistakes.
5. Mountains specialize in interesting weather.
palace
/ˈpæɫəs/
nouna large and impressively designed house that is often the official house of a powerful individual such as a president or king
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1. 'Where is your palace?'
2. Palace intrigue shakes one of the Middle East's most historically stable monarchies.
3. The palace sure is very beautiful.
4. However, his palace was later torn down.
5. Which palace is this?
to sell
/ˈsɛɫ/
verbto give something to someone in exchange for money
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1. Marketing is a company's plan for selling a product.
2. It means the franchisee can sell only the products or services of the parent company.
3. He sold ladies' clothes, and he always had two or three shopgirls to help him.
4. It's a multilevel marketing scheme where the only money you can make is if you find new salesmen to sell with you.
5. Station 48 sold a thousand copies of their calendar last month alone.
strange
/ˈstɹeɪndʒ/
adjectivehaving unusual, unexpected, or confusing qualities
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1. Modern media are likely to make things even stranger.
2. - That butter smells strange.
3. The hybrid flowers were strange.
4. The food looks strange.
5. My daughters are strange.
surprised
/səˈpɹaɪzd/, /sɝˈpɹaɪzd/
adjectivefeeling or showing surprise or wonder
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1. The man was so surprised that he nearly dropped the box on his feet.
2. The men are surprised.
3. Surprised he didn't just stay out there.
4. Babies are surprised.
5. This wines a stunner, I'm pleasantly surprised.
through
/ˈθɹu/
prepositionfrom one side of something or someone to the other; into one side something and out of the other side
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1. I can easily get in through her attic window.
2. The butcher goes through about 15,000 pounds of beef and 9,700 pounds of chicken each week.
3. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
4. After all, this is a 2 mm long, bright green ciliate slithering through a field of smaller organisms and debris.
5. "Two percent click through!"
toward
/ˈtɔɹd/, /təˈwɔɹd/
prepositionin the direction of someone or something
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1. This scene takes place toward the end of the film.
2. Wright drives the car toward the mark of a red smoke grenade.
3. His wife and son ran toward him.
4. Inflation forces the universe toward critical density.
5. The matador waves the cloth toward the bull.
valuable
/ˈvæɫjəbəɫ/, /ˈvæɫjubəɫ/
adjectiveworth a large amount of money
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1. That reading and broccoli and piggy banks are valuable.
2. Electricity is valuable.
3. Transportation is valuable.
4. Your time is valuable.
5. That consciousness is valuable.
village
/ˈvɪɫədʒ/, /ˈvɪɫɪdʒ/
nouna very small town located in the countryside
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1. Ellen, please ask a maid to find some dry clothes for me, and then I'll go on to the village.
2. Martyred Village.
3. The village now even has an emergency vehicle!
4. The quinoa boom revived this village.
5. Every village has one.
