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

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