to write
/ˈɹaɪt/
verbto make letters, words, or numbers on a surface, usually a piece of paper, with a pen or pencil
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1. He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
2. He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
3. People still write forgeries today.
4. The president wrote a very generous letter.
5. He wrote a very interesting article.
to act
/ˈækt/
verbto play or perform a role in a play or movie
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1. So the first guy is acting as the interpreter, and, first of all, he's not even really a professional interpreter.
2. Because the aid and oil or mineral money acts the same way.
3. - No, act your age!
4. This means act immediately.
5. - Acting.
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.
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 compose
/kəmˈpoʊz/
verbto write a literary piece with a lot of consideration
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1. He began to compose music at age three.
2. Between the forests and deserts a number of ecoclines or transitional environments composed a buffer between the two extremes.
3. - All right, so compose your bite.
4. Compose your shot.
5. Compose your shot.
to compose
/kəmˈpoʊz/
verbto write a musical piece
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1. He began to compose music at age three.
2. Between the forests and deserts a number of ecoclines or transitional environments composed a buffer between the two extremes.
3. - All right, so compose your bite.
4. Compose your shot.
5. Compose your shot.
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!
to direct
/daɪˈɹɛkt/, /dɝˈɛkt/, /dɪˈɹɛkt/
verbto organize the scenes or flow of a movie, play, etc.
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1. The angle of the track directs the rest of the force towards the center.
2. - Directing your own surgery, "Ronin."
3. Vasodilators include calcium channel blockers, direct arterial vasodilators and nitrodilators.
4. No ant directs the behavior of any other ant.
5. Singer directed the original X-Men and X2.
to invent
/ˌɪnˈvɛnt/
verbto make or design something that did not exist before
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1. Invented the field of psychoanalysis?
2. - Pre black people were inventing things all the time.
3. Freud attempted to invent a treatment for our many neuroses: psychoanalysis.
4. So we invented "pro-voice."
5. Invent a shape.
art
/ˈɑɹt/
nounthe use of creativity and imagination to express emotions and ideas by making things like paintings, sculptures, music, etc.
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1. Museums help preserve human history by collecting works of art.
2. Art thieves believe they can easily steal something from a small museum without being seen.
3. Many of the dramatic images he created for science are now found in art museums worldwide.
4. Just doing art.
5. Art can create an analogy.
novel
/ˈnɑvəɫ/
nouna long written story that usually involves imaginary characters and places
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1. The novel also explores the protagonist’s own anti-blackness and ignorance towards black history.
2. - I love novels.
3. None of us are truly novel.
4. You read novels.
5. She read novels.
politics
/ˈpɑɫəˌtɪks/
nouna set of ideas and activities involved in governing a country, state, or city
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1. Now many male veterans were entering politics.
2. The word politics is a noun.
3. Politics only takes place within the context of the particular.
4. Politics means many things.
5. Politics have defined our lives.
science
/ˈsaɪəns/
nounknowledge about the structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, especially based on examining, testing, and proving facts
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1. Soon everyone agreed that phrenology was not a science after all.
2. Many of the dramatic images he created for science are now found in art museums worldwide.
3. I'm a prodigy, I know science.
4. So much fun - Science is actually cool -
5. Science says so.
singer
/ˈsɪŋɝ/
nounsomeone whose job is to use their voice for creating music
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1. Singers are utterly beautiful.
2. Join my singers forums, man.
3. Singers do that too.
4. The singer even celebrated the new chapter in an Instagram post on Father's Day.
5. Singer directed the original X-Men and X2.
writer
/ˈɹaɪtɝ/
nounsomeone whose job involves writing articles, books, stories, etc.
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1. I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2. So should writers follow the rules?
3. Writers do.
4. Writers have their name on the book.
5. I hired writers.
composer
/kəmˈpoʊzɝ/
nouna person who writes music as their profession
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1. Composers know that.
2. The composer was in Los Angeles.
3. Popular music composers submit recordings of their music to bands, singers, record companies, or movie studios.
4. Occasionally, composers will change keys.
5. So composers do change keys.
dancer
/ˈdænsɝ/
nounsomeone whose profession is dancing
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1. Anyway, the producers paired the dancers with a totally incomprehensible play about black magic and fairies and a really weird New Year’s Eve.
2. Dancers do.
3. In South Africa, dancers add traditional tribal dance steps to their breaking.
4. "5, 6, 7, 8" None of us were dancers.
5. Typically, choreographers are experienced dancers themselves.
director
/daɪˈɹɛktɝ/, /dɝˈɛktɝ/, /diˈɹɛktɝ/, /dɪˈɹɛktɝ/
nouna person in charge of a movie or play who gives instructions to the actors and staff
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1. Movies are usually labeled as the work of the actors or director.
2. Director: Begin the test.
3. Casting directors.
4. Directors also oversee the visual aspects of website and video game development.
5. Directors make the creative decisions.
inventor
/ˌɪnˈvɛntɝ/
nounsomeone who makes or designs something that did not exist before
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1. Inventors have proposed plenty of ideas.
2. Other inventors created bulbs with platinum filaments or other carbonized materials.
3. Every invention has an inventor.
4. But inventors have made great improvements to the bicycle.
5. But its inventors foresaw a different purpose.
artist
/ˈɑɹtəst/, /ˈɑɹtɪst/
nounsomeone who creates drawings, sculptures, paintings, etc. either as their job or hobby
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1. Artists have well documented the extremes of our climate, as well as average temps and beautiful vistas.
2. Artists depicted cityscapes, ball games, and field hands at work.
3. Artists produced many works of art in his honour.
4. Artists produced many works of art in his honour.
5. People are still supporting artists.
novelist
/ˈnɑvəɫəst/
nouna writer who explores characters, events, and themes in depth through long narrative stories, particularly novels
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1. Novelists are no luckier.
2. Bestselling novelist.
3. Some other novelists do a great job within that phenomenal field.
4. Novelist Yes, your celebrity crush from 2002 is now a novelist.
5. The novelist met her future husband when she interviewed with him at a New York hedge fund.
yesterday
/ˈjɛstɝˌdeɪ/, /ˈjɛstɝdi/
nounthe day before today; the previous day
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1. Temperatures in Los Angeles County reached a record high of 121 degrees yesterday.
2. Demolition team began their work yesterday.
3. - Yesterday was a delay.
4. Yesterday, one of her schools called the company.
5. Yesterday, as we convened with young leaders from around the world.
morning
/ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
nounthe time of day that is between when the sun starts to rise and the middle of the day at twelve o'clock
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1. Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2. It is Monday morning.
3. What is morning?
4. Morning is the best time for both.
5. What is morning?
last
/ˈɫæs/, /ˈɫæst/
adjectivemost recent; latest
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1. In the last 50 years, several factors have caused young adults to leave the farms.
2. Last month a pretty girl came to work for him.
3. Actually, last year when the pandemic was greater than ever, we have the highest revenue here for the shops.
4. Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
5. Our model of atoms has changed a number of times since we first conceived it, and the current one will certainly not be the last.
night
/ˈnaɪt/
nounthe time when the sun goes down, it gets dark outside, and we sleep
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1. Night falls.
2. You work nights?
3. The reason: night sweats.
4. - You have night.
5. You have night.
month
/ˈmənθ/
nouneach of the twelve named divisions of the year, like January, February, etc.
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1. Last month a pretty girl came to work for him.
2. After three months, the governor saw that Yusuf learned quickly.
3. Some months later Sara had her eleventh birthday.
4. That's a second consecutive month that sales have topped a billion dollars.
5. His eleventh child, Rory, would be born six months later.
three
/ˈθɹi/
numeralthe number 3; the number of sides in a triangle
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1. The three men laughed.
2. After three months, the governor saw that Yusuf learned quickly.
3. The three children are laughing.
4. The next day, all three children are smiling.
5. In just three years, nurse vacancies nearly doubled.
day
/ˈdeɪ/
nouna period of time that is made up of twenty-four hours
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1. They divided the day into 12 hours.
2. Each time zone was equal to one hour of time in a 24-hour day.
3. The next days were the loneliest of Stephen's life.
4. The next day, all three children are smiling.
5. We experience reconnaissance missions and attacks against electrical companies every day.
five
/ˈfaɪv/
numeralthe number 5; the number of fingers we have on one hand
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1. There are about five million people in Scotland.
2. About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
3. At least five migrant children have died in government custody since September.
4. - Do five!
5. One. - One, two - Two - Three - Three - Four - Four, five - Make an omelet.
minute
/ˈmɪnət/, /maɪˈnut/, /maɪnˈjut/
nouneach of the sixty parts that creates one hour and is made up of sixty seconds
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1. Oh, wait a minute.
2. It can fill up 270 pints a minute.
3. Wait a minute.
4. But for these experienced Buddhist monks, the gamma waves lasted minutes!
5. But for these experienced Buddhist monks, the gamma waves lasted minutes!
week
/ˈwik/
nouna period of time that is made up of seven days in a calendar
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1. The butcher goes through about 15,000 pounds of beef and 9,700 pounds of chicken each week.
2. The symptoms can last weeks, to month.
3. He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.
4. The days turned into weeks.
5. Weeks go by now.
summer
/ˈsəmɝ/
nounthe season that comes after spring and in most countries summer is the warmest season
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1. How do you prevent all your relatives coming to live with you in the summer?'
2. In the summer the days are long and it can be warm.
3. Summer is almost over.
4. Summer is off.
5. For many people, summer means travel.
before
/ˌbiˈfɔɹ/, /bɪˈfɔɹ/
adverbat an earlier time
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1. 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?"
2. He quickly goes behind a tree before the men arrive.
3. To get cheap tickets, buy them an hour or two before it begins.
4. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding.
5. I have never seen you smile really before, your character is so dour.
a
/ˈeɪ/, /ə/
determinerused when we want to talk about a person or thing for the first time or when other people may not know who or what they are
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1. A girl brings back some oranges.
2. A woman brings back some bananas.
3. His most successful business as a teenager was running a lottery.
4. Every grain tells a story.
5. A colleague was physically there.
year
/ˈjɪɹ/
nouna period of time that is made up of twelve months, particularly one that starts on January first and ends on December thirty-first
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1. Mechanical clocks first appeared in China about 800 years ago.
2. Her son, Peter, was twenty years old then.
3. Every ten billion years one single grain of sand falls to the bottom.
4. Our story begins in the year 1963.
5. In just three years, nurse vacancies nearly doubled.
in
/ˈɪn/, /ɪn/
prepositionused before a specific period of time to show when or at what time something happens or how long it takes for it to happen
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1. Some bacteria help humans in many ways.
2. The old woman looks in her bag.
3. In 2009, two researchers ran a simple experiment.
4. Our story begins in the year 1963.
5. My mother believed in dreams and possibilities.
