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

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