to book
/ˈbʊk/
verbto arrange and confirm a seat, ticket, room, or place on a transportation, accommodation, or event
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1. I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2. He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
3. Errol Morris wrote a really great book.
4. He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
5. Books make a great gift for babies of all ages.
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.
flight
/ˈfɫaɪt/
nounthe act of traveling in an airplane
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1. Your taste buds take flight.
2. It took flight.
3. Its first instinct was flight.
4. Flights are very expensive.
5. A man, a wingless mammal took flight.
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.
accommodation
/əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃən/
nouna place where people live, stay, or work in
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1. Higher ranked individuals, though, of course have more spacious accommodations.
2. some living trees have made accommodations for them, too.
3. Two of them are offering accommodations on the main exercise.
4. What are the accommodations?
5. We have public accommodations.
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.
by
/ˈbaɪ/
prepositionindicating the means of doing or achieving something
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1. My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
2. Don’t be wowed by his toxic shirtless masculinity or his judo skills.
3. I'm being frisked by Conan.
4. In cats, this ocular occurrence boosts low-light sensitivity by almost 50%.
5. You can go to a park by yourself with a basketball.
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.
plane
/ˈpɫeɪn/
nouna winged flying vehicle driven by one or more engines
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1. I remember planes.
2. We shoot down planes.
3. Planes fly across state lines.
4. Planes are a relatively recent invention.
5. One, two, three, go: - Plane.
to rent
/ˈɹɛnt/
verb(of an owner) to let someone use a property, car, etc. for a particular time
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1. So, a renter can rent a bicycle, a car, a helicopter, a house.
2. So rent some sound equipment.
3. Rent a bike dispenser in the Netherlands.
4. Rent money, baby.
5. - Rent a puppy
car
/kɑɹ/
nouna road vehicle that has four wheels, an engine, and a small number of seats for people
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1. A police car stops the young man in North Street.
2. It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
3. 50% of the commercial driver's license tests will include car.
4. Daddy can drive car.
5. Car made a marshmallow gun shooter type thing.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
nouna place with a few rooms in which people live, normally part of a building with other such places on each floor
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1. -This bottle of champagne is flat!
2. 'This table is flat.'
3. The bottom is flat.
4. A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5. Lay the console flat
to stay
/ˈsteɪ/
verbto keep being in the same state or situation
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1. Sara's father stays at home.
2. This little piggy stayed home.
3. The organization stays a lot longer.
4. Stay the heck away from it.
5. Stay awesome possums.
in
/ˈɪn/, /ɪn/
prepositionat a point inside or within a space or an area
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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.
hotel
/hoʊˈtɛɫ/
nouna building where we give money to stay and eat food in when we are traveling
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1. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2. My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
3. Hotels present similar challenges.
4. Hotels have the weirdest lotions.
5. Hotels always have good shrimp cocktails for some reason.
hostel
/ˈhɑstəɫ/
nouna place or building that provides cheap food and accommodations for visitors
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1. Life for mostof these workers is confined to the factory floor and adormitory in a migrant's hostel.
2. And they found a hostel.
3. - This is a Hostel Saw.
4. Consider youth hostels, especially in the more expensive cities around the world.
5. It reminds me of Hostel.
to eat out
/ˈiːt ˈaʊt/
verbto eat in a restaurant, etc. rather than at one's home
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1. The average millennial eats out 5 times a week!
2. Eating out too much.
3. Nearly half of which is eating out.
4. And the dementia ate out the language parts of the brain.
5. - Eat out?
to visit
/ˈvɪzɪt/
verbto travel to a place for the purpose of exploration, enjoyment, or sightseeing
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1. People enjoy visiting museums to see displays of wonderful paintings and sculptures.
2. However, this does mean that practically anyone with the thirst for adventure can visit every continent, ocean, or country.
3. Visit family.
4. Clouds seldom visit this area.
5. - Visited the set of Jurassic Park and Jumanji.
museum
/ˈmjuziəm/, /mjuˈziəm/
nouna place where important cultural, artistic, historical, or scientific objects are kept and shown to the public
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1. People enjoy visiting museums to see displays of wonderful paintings and sculptures.
2. Museums help preserve human history by collecting works of art.
3. Museums display these items so visitors can see them and learn from them.
4. Art thieves believe they can easily steal something from a small museum without being seen.
5. The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
and
/ˈænd/, /ənd/
conjunctionused to connect two words, phrases, or sentences referring to related things
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1. The system revolutionized the restaurant business and introduced the term "fast food."
2. His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
3. And both methods came up with pretty similar results.
4. And the court then has to make a determination.
5. Chestnuts offer plenty of protein, vitamin E and dietary fiber.
art gallery
/ˈɑːɹt ɡˈælɚɹi/
nouna building where works of art are exhibited to the public
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1. The place is the Ritesville town art gallery.
2. The dashboard of the Rolls-Royce Phantom can even become a bespoke art gallery.
3. The Art Gallery has this work.
4. Think of your room as an art gallery.
5. The fantasy hideaway is more of an art gallery than a treehouse.
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.
souvenir
/ˌsuvəˈnɪɹ/
nounsomething that we usually buy and bring back for other people from a place that we have visited on vacation
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1. Souvenir hunters had also taken pieces of the coffin and some of his bones.
2. The souvenir draws attention to both precise birthdays 36, 80, and the long stage of life in between, the middle years.
3. For youth, souvenirs are recommended.
4. I brought back way too many souvenirs!
5. He collected souvenirs.
to have
/ˈhæv/
verbto hold, possess, or own an object or a quality
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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.
good time
/ɡˈʊd tˈaɪm/
nounan enjoyable or exciting experience or period of time
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1. Throughout the 2010s, Pattinson appeared in different roles in various genres outside of the Twilight films, including the Safdie brothers' thriller Good Time.
2. Pattinson is a serious actor, as he's demonstrated in critically acclaimed indie films like Good Time and High Life since his brush with franchise fame.
3. Since breaking out in Twilight, he's since delivered memorable performances in such varied films as Water for Elephants, Good Time, and The Lighthouse.
to meet
/ˈmit/
verbto be introduced to a person; to see and talk to a person for the first time
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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.
new
/ˈnju/, /ˈnu/
adjectiverecently built, invented, made, etc.
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1. Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2. I must start a new life among strangers.'
3. His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
4. I bought new equipment.
5. Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
people
/ˈpipəɫ/
nounhuman beings as a group, including men, women, and children
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1. As a result, people in different locations had different local times.
2. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
3. People still write forgeries today.
4. Most people believed him.
5. People draw different conclusions from this.
holiday
/ˈhɑɫəˌdeɪ/, /ˈhɑɫɪˌdeɪ/
nouna day or period of time fixed by law when we don't have to go to school or work
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1. Holidays are a lot of work.
2. The next topic is holidays.
3. I hate holidays.
4. Holidays are the time for Zen photographs on secluded beaches.
5. We had holidays.
city
/ˈsɪti/
nouna larger and more populated town
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1. Some cities have even passed laws that allow Segways to travel only on sidewalks.
2. Over half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities.
3. About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
4. Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
5. The city has a massive migrant workforce.
