to play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verbto take part in a game or activity for fun
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1. One day they decided to play a joke on their professor.
2. And nobody can play here - only me!'
3. They don't like playing in the road.
4. If the carpet isn’t too dirty, the safer play is probably to just vacuum.
5. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
ice hockey
/ˈaɪs hˈɑːki/
nouna game played on ice by two teams of 6 skaters who try to hit a hard rubber disc (a puck) into the other team’s goal, using long sticks
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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.
traveling
/ˈtɹævəɫɪŋ/, /ˈtɹævɫɪŋ/
nounthe activity or act of going from one place to another, particularly over a long distance
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1. He likes music and traveling.
2. I achieved my traveling across Japan.
3. On top of easy traveling, a space elevator would also open up some new energy possibilities.
4. Yeah traveling gets ya sometimes. -
5. - Finally done traveling.
to do
/ˈdu/
verbto perform an action or activity that is not mentioned by name
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1. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2. Do you believe the allegations against Roy Moore?
3. In the larger scheme of things, those things don't change your narrative.
4. She does that little laugh.
5. Moreover, the death of a presidential candidate does not create a vacancy.
homework
/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
nounschoolwork that students are required to do at home
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1. I had homework.
2. I hate homework.
3. The boys are doing homework together.
4. Doing homework this late.
5. - I have homework.
to make
/ˈmeɪk/
verbto form, produce, or prepare something, by putting parts together or by combining materials
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1. These guesses make a lot of sense.
2. Crash Course was made with the help of these soulless bureaucrats.
3. One farm in Sweden is even making moose cheese.
4. Maybe today's grads are at least making more money.
5. And the court then has to make a determination.
mistake
/mɪˈsteɪk/
nounan act or opinion that is wrong
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1. When he hugged his daughter to soothe his pain, he realized his mistake too late.
2. At the same time, agencies definitely make mistakes.
3. People make mistakes.
4. Even the world's biggest tech giants can make mistakes.
5. - People mistake your culture.
to speak
/ˈspik/
verbto use one's voice to express a particular feeling or to communicate information
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1. The tall lady speaks to Alissa.
2. Actions speak louder than words.
3. The grandmothers speak a different language.
4. The statistics speak for themselves.
5. She speaks her mind.
language
/ˈɫæŋɡwədʒ/, /ˈɫæŋɡwɪdʒ/
nounthe system of communication by spoken or written words, that is used by people of a particular country or region
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1. His language skills are poorly developed, and he doesn't speak in full sentences.
2. They had a different language, a beautiful language called Gaelic.
3. They had a different language, a beautiful language called Gaelic.
4. The grandmothers speak a different language.
5. What language should we speak?
to say
/ˈseɪ/
verbto use words and our voice to show what we are thinking or feeling
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1. They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
2. On the way, the driver said to Harry politely, 'Could you please tell me why we are doing all these things?
3. 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?"
4. "This is my first trip abroad without my parents," says Paul.
5. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
to teach
/ˈtitʃ/
verbto instruct or educate someone; to give lessons to students in a university, college, school, etc.
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1. Its main goal is to teach literacy and encourage kids to learn how to spell.
2. This rolling bell teaches the baby about the concept of cause and effect.
3. It also teaches the baby a more mature swallow pattern.
4. Lemme teach you-
5. Teaching the language?
to ride
/ˈɹaɪd/
verbto sit on open-spaced vehicles like motorcycles or bicycles and be in control of their movements
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1. Some people wait in line for hours for their favorite rides.
2. History records, however, that well over a million passengers rode the wheel during the Fair without incident.
3. Ride your bike!
4. My dad rode the biggest wave in the world.
5. Riding those big rides, even a roller coaster, ♫ Together in love with kisses.
to learn
/ˈɫɝn/
verbto gain knowledge of or skill in something by experience, by study, or by being taught
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1. As a result, they never learn to deal with disappointment or failure.
2. About ten thousand years ago, humans learned to farm.
3. I learned a hard lesson today about the judgment and discrimination and retaliation against people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
4. We moved on to oil refineries and chemical factories, learning about the unit operations behind them.
5. Once your dog has learned an exercise, you wean them off of the food.
to lend
/ˈɫɛnd/
verbto allow someone to have or use something that you own which must be returned to you later
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1. MAN: Fellow riders lend a hand.
2. Turmeric lends more flavor and color to your dishes.
3. Banks lent money to bond buyers.
4. A host of stowaway microorganisms lent it a distinct locker-room odor.
5. Banks lent him huge amounts of money.
to borrow
/ˈbɑˌɹoʊ/
verbto use or take something that someone else owns, which must be given back to them later on
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1. The U.S. government is constantly borrowing money.
2. "Borrow trouble".
3. Borrow your car?
4. So, a company can borrow money.
5. Borrow my confidence.
important
/ˌɪmˈpɔɹtənt/
adjectivehaving a lot of value
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1. Measuring time became important when people lived in towns and cities.
2. He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
3. Education, human resources are important.
4. Just the contrast between the edge and the pocket square is important.
5. Functional government am important!
delicious
/dɪˈɫɪʃəs/
adjectivehaving a good taste
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1. King trumpet is delicious.
2. That dude is delicious.
3. Any banana is delicious.
4. The char on the outside from that banana ketchup is delicious.
5. Black beans Black beans are delicious.
high
/ˈhaɪ/
adjectivehaving a relatively great vertical extent
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1. The ads will certainly emphasize things like good taste, easy preparation, and high nutrition.
2. They knew that high heat and chemicals would destroy bacteria.
3. When you get out of the cage, you'll fly very high.
4. The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
5. She could rent out a spare room to offset the higher costs!
long
/ˈɫɔŋ/
adjective(of two points) having an above-average or big distance between them
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1. Long ago, people did not understand infection.
2. The dentist did a lot of work in his mouth for a long time.
3. The long list could go on.
4. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
5. The company had long boasted about the quality of its ingredients.
heavy
/ˈhɛvi/
adjectivehaving a lot of weight and not easy to move or pick up
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1. His sword was heavy.
2. His sword is much heavier than the monk's.
3. Books are heavy!
4. Air is heavy.
5. The bass is heavy.
busy
/ˈbɪzi/
adjectivehaving so many things to do in a way that leaves not much free time
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1. One day she was out shopping when she saw an old woman waiting to cross a busy street.
2. All the restaurants in the city are busy on Thursday.
3. The market is busy.
4. Life is busy.
5. Life became busy.
to
/ˈtu/, /tə/, /tɪ/
prepositionused to say where someone or something goes
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1. The tall lady speaks to Alissa.
2. The unemployment rate declined to 13.3 percent.
3. Every ten billion years one single grain of sand falls to the bottom.
4. The control wire connects to a coil of wire inside the relay.
5. Blackstone's attorney spoke to us about the fees.
from
/ˈfɹəm/
prepositionused for showing the place where a person or thing comes from
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1. The Japanese royal family even claimed descent from dragons.
2. Your senate was chosen from among the Patrician class.
3. People draw different conclusions from this.
4. Your fetid flatulence affliction is from a different source.
5. In the lions' territory, The cubs' father arrives back from his sojourn.
at
/ˈæt/
prepositionused to show a particular place or position
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1. Sara's father stays at home.
2. Some deaf people do not speak at all.
3. The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
4. The cells of the cervix are especially at risks.
5. We both laugh at the same jokes!
about
/əˈbaʊt/
prepositionon the matters that concern or relate to a specific subject
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1. The computer system checks the rider's body movements about 100 times every second.
2. About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
3. The company had long boasted about the quality of its ingredients.
4. I wrote the story about Mexico's biggest pipeline explosion.
5. Blackstone's attorney spoke to us about the fees.
of
/ˈəv/
prepositionused when stating one's opinion about someone or something
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1. Lack of jobs and new marriage patterns are causing changes in many countries.
2. That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
3. Today, over 70% of all heroin addicts in Switzerland receive treatment.
4. The Trump era restriction affected thousands of migrants.
5. Some games are more of a toss-up though.
on
/ˈɑn/, /ˈɔn/
prepositionused to show that an object is physically in contact with or attached to a surface or object
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1. A young person was standing on the other side of the pond.
2. She quickly puts a golden apple on the table.
3. She quickly puts some wax on the scales.
4. The jogger puts his hand on the old woman’s arm.
5. Addiction overall is tough on any human being.
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 children are in the kitchen.
3. In 2009, two researchers ran a simple experiment.
4. The family waited in the sitting room.
5. This person believes in climate change.
with
/ˈwɪð/, /ˈwɪθ/, /wɪð/, /wɪθ/
prepositionused when two or more things or people are together in a single place
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1. Now fill the room with grains of rice.
2. The ceremony begins with a mock battle between the midwives and the other physicians.
3. His mattress was completely infested with roaches.
4. The slaves and others reacted with shock and revulsion.
5. -She's speaking with a Southern drawl.
for
/ˈfɔɹ/, /fɝ/, /fɹɝ/
prepositionused to indicate who is supposed to have or use something or where something is intended to be put
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1. The shoes on her feet are very big for her.
2. The little girl puts out her hand for them.
3. Deliveries for its Model Y SUV begin as soon as this March.
4. Mercenaries are in it for the loot.
5. The statistics speak for themselves.
left
/ˈɫɛft/
adjectivetoward or located on the same side as the heart of most people
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1. This side however, my left ear is better than my right ear
2. This left included various figures.
3. The kid, in his last game, homers to left!
4. Watch your left!
5. Look left.
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.
kind
/ˈkaɪnd/
nouna group of people or things that have similar characteristics or share particular qualities
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1. The kind old woman is now dead.
2. My husband is kind.
3. Today's word is kind.
4. Not that kind domination, dominate your lighting.
5. Love is kind.
kind
/ˈkaɪnd/
adjectivefriendly and nice to others; caring about other people's feelings
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1. The kind old woman is now dead.
2. My husband is kind.
3. Today's word is kind.
4. Not that kind domination, dominate your lighting.
5. Love is kind.
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.
to train
/ˈtɹeɪn/
verbto teach a specific skill or a type of behavior to a person or an animal by exercise and instruction over time
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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.
to mean
/ˈmin/
verbto have a particular meaning or represent something
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1. It means the franchisee can sell only the products or services of the parent company.
2. That does not mean she had things easy.
3. That means that during emergencies, the plant will cool and stabilize itself without an operator present.
4. I mean, the display resolution is terrible.
5. However, this does mean that practically anyone with the thirst for adventure can visit every continent, ocean, or country.
interested
/ˈɪntɝəstəd/, /ˈɪntɝɪstɪd/, /ˈɪntɹəstɪd/, /ˈɪntɹɪstɪd/
adjectivegiving much attention to something or someone because one likes them
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1. But I'm very interested in him.
2. Many more people were interested.
3. The director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, Friedrich Lippmann, was immediately interested.
4. Even her infant is interested.
5. The public was very interested.
interesting
/ˈɪntɝəstɪŋ/, /ˈɪntɝɪstɪŋ/, /ˈɪntɹəstɪŋ/, /ˈɪntɹɪstɪŋ/
adjectivecatching and keeping our attention because of being unusual, exciting, etc.
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1. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them.
2. It is in an interesting new building on the Royal Mile.
3. He wrote a very interesting article.
4. One of their standard questions for V.P.s, and those questions are interesting.
5. Was this video interesting?
excited
/ɪkˈsaɪtəd/, /ɪkˈsaɪtɪd/
adjectivefeeling very happy, interested, and energetic
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1. Today's word is excited.
2. The kids are excited.
3. You guys are excited.
4. The kids are excited.
5. - Guys are excited.
exciting
/ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ/
adjectivemaking us feel interested, happy, and energetic
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1. This one looks exciting.
2. Every day is exciting.
3. Today's word is exciting!
4. Canvassing is extremely exciting.
5. That 360 deal sounded exciting!
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.
surprising
/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/, /sɝˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
adjectivecausing a feeling of shock, disbelief, or wonder
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1. The results were surprising.
2. Your background earlier is surprising.
3. None of this is too surprising.
4. The size difference though is surprising.
5. The answer is really surprising.
bored
/ˈbɔɹd/
adjectivetired and unhappy because there is nothing to do or because we are no longer interested in something
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1. You guys are bored?
2. Bored people want change.
3. Today's word is bored.
4. People are often bored.
5. My finger is bored.
boring
/ˈbɔɹɪŋ/
adjectivemaking us feel tired and unsatisfied because of not being interesting
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1. They were boring, there was a shaky camera.
2. Lectures are boring.
3. Is your intro boring?
4. Taxi driving was boring.
5. School is boring.
embarrassed
/ɪmˈbɛɹəst/
adjectivefeeling ashamed and uncomfortable because of something that happened or was said. especially in front of other people
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1. My cousin was very embarrassed.
2. Are people embarrassed about that?
3. The emperor was extremely embarrassed.
4. Our girl is embarrassed.
5. Being embarrassed.
embarrassing
/ɪmˈbɛɹəsɪŋ/
adjectivecausing a person to feel ashamed or uneasy
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1. A comparison between US airports and those in Asia is embarrassing.
2. Their record was embarrassing.
3. The experience was embarrassing.
4. Discuss embarrassing mood.
5. The result was embarrassing.
