to play
/ˈpɫeɪ/
verbto enjoy yourself and do things for fun, like children
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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.
game
/ˈɡeɪm/
nounan activity often with fixed rules that we do for amusement or fun
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1. Some games are more of a toss-up though.
2. You guys game?
3. Game consoles.
4. Game consoles.
5. I game my mom so many macaroni necklaces.
to do
/ˈdu/
verbto perform a particular activity or task
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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.
puzzle
/ˈpəzəɫ/
nouna game that needs a lot of thinking in order to be finished or done
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1. Now, this notion of a concept often puzzles people.
2. Puzzles are done knitting.
3. Its unfamiliarity puzzled him.
4. This puzzled people.
5. Solving puzzles?
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.
gym
/ˈdʒɪm/
nouna place with special equipment that people go to exercise or play sports
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1. The gym launched the Planet Fitness app in the summer of 2019.
2. But people hate gyms.
3. create a gym.
4. Many gyms have smoothie or juice bars.
5. The other big question is gym clothes.
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.
lie-in
/lˈaɪˈɪn/
nouna period of time spent resting or sleeping in bed beyond one's usual waking time, often done for the purpose of getting additional rest or relaxation
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1. I had 12 weeks' bed rest, which is a blooming long lie-in.
2. That's like the longest lie-in any of us need.
3. That's probably the longest lie-in in this room.
4. You can’t believe you let yourself have such a big lie-in.
5. For instance, today, he actually woke up at eight o'clock in the morning, so he had a bit of a lie-in.
to meet
/ˈmit/
verbto come together in a place with others to do something special
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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.
friend
/ˈfɹɛnd/
nounsomeone we know well, like a lot, and trust, but normally they are not part of our family
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1. When he finally went on his sleepy way home, Tom felt sure that he had just made an excellent new friend.
2. Some faithful friends of Stalin even admitted to having disloyal thoughts if not deeds, which was adequate sin to justify execution.
3. On top of that, Bertha’s friends would fuss over him as a toddler and compliment his skin wherever he went.
4. Friends just got here.
5. - Make friends.
drink
/ˈdɹɪŋk/
nounany liquid that we can drink
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1. In 1859, Louis Pasteur developed a procedure to make milk from farm animals safe to drink.
2. - Drink! -
3. drink partner drink.
4. - Drink? -
5. Bacon drink tabs!
to watch
/ˈwɑtʃ/, /ˈwɔtʃ/
verbto look at a thing or person and pay attention to it for some time
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1. Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2. Sara is watching her father.
3. They watch the people in the street.
4. If you haven't had a chance to watch El Camino on Netflix yet, make a U-turn and queue it up.
5. Watch the video.
drama
/ˈdɹɑmə/
nouna play that is performed in a theater, on TV, or radio
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1. I hate drama!
2. They want drama.
3. Musically heightened drama.
4. These guys know drama.
5. Next thing is creating drama.
TV
/ˈtiˈvi/, /ˌtɛɫəˈvɪʒən/
nounan electronic device that shows images and videos and plays sounds and people use to watch different programs
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1. Watching TV.
2. TV lied.
3. Just watching TV.
4. Just watching TV.
5. Watching TV.
to chat
/ˈtʃæt/
verbto talk in an informal and friendly way to someone, usually about unimportant things
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1. The officers chat in the front.
2. The twins are chatting.
3. These young people chat in very concrete terms about potential targets and enemies.
4. The families chatted together.
5. Chunky chat masala though.
phone
/ˈfoʊn/
nounan electronic device used to talk to a person who is at a different location
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1. He answers the phone.
2. No wonder phones cost so much these days!
3. Five billion of those people now have phones.
4. Or phone your love’s Mom
5. Phone dies.
to go out
/ɡˌoʊ ˈaʊt/
verbto leave the house to go somewhere, usually to do something enjoyable
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meal
/ˈmiɫ/
nounthe food that you eat on regular occasions during the day, especially breakfast, lunch, or dinner; or any of these occasions
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1. Meals rarely enjoyed.
2. Meal conversation.
3. Meal minded.
4. Meal worms.
5. Never skip meals.
to listen
/ˈɫɪsən/
verbto give our attention to the sound a person or thing is making
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1. We listened to the laughing and talking in the hall, as the guests were welcomed by their host and his housekeeper.
2. Why do we listen to her?
3. And there's also a whole other category of treatment that's pretty different from the talking and listening that goes on in psychotherapy.
4. - Listen.
5. - Listen.
music
/ˈmjuzɪk/
nouna series of sounds made by instruments or voices, arranged in a way that is pleasant or exciting to listen to
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1. He began to compose music at age three.
2. Scans show that the brain is much more actively engaged with music than with speech.
3. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
4. Music can brighten up a boring clip.
5. One, play music.
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.
nothing
/ˈnəθɪŋ/
pronounnot a single thing
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1. Nothing is immoral.
2. nothing watch this line the real version.
3. All right, here goes nothin'.
4. Your honor, nothing represents the tragic aftermath more than the dramatic transformation of this woman.
5. My name Miss Kelly, okay, Ion take nuthin' from no one.
to take a picture
/tˈeɪk ɐ pˈɪktʃɚ/
phraseto use a device like a camera or cellphone to capture an image of something
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to read
/riːd/
verbto look at written or printed words and understand their meaning
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1. The two men read the letter again.
2. And I'm going to read a poem first, an elegy called "Burial."
3. During a 60 hour playthrough the kill counter reads precisely 21,369 space aliens , murderous robots and giant insects.
4. - Read a book, Leo.
5. - Read a book, people!
magazine
/ˈmæɡəˌzin/
nouna periodic publication or a large thin book with a paper cover that contains news stories, articles, photographs, etc., usually on a particular topic, sold weekly or monthly
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1. Circulation grew quickly, partly because of the magazine's lack of competition.
2. Magazines went out of business.
3. For example, magazines have lots of captions.
4. Magazines even have chapters.
5. Time magazine reported the story.
barbecue
/ˈbɑɹbɪkˌju/
nounan outdoor meal or party during which food (meat, fish, etc.) is cooked on a metal frame over an open fire
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1. Barbecue pretty much brings people together.
2. I just love barbecue.
3. I love barbecue too.
4. I love barbecue.
5. So barbecues are fun.
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.
walk
/ˈwɑk/, /ˈwɔk/
nouna short journey we take on foot
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1. Don went out for a walk in the morning but he forgot to put on his watch.
2. The little girl now walks over the snow in her bare feet.
3. Yellow light, walk.
4. Walking those steps.
5. The bat weevil walk like this.
to visit
/ˈvɪzɪt/
verbto go somewhere because we want to spend time with someone
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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.
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.
to shop
/ˈʃɑp/
verbto look for and buy different things from stores
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1. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things.
2. Mr. Miller had a shop in a big town.
3. After a few days, Mr Miller saw a young man come into the shop.
4. There's a butcher shop.
5. They even have a pig-shaped one in a butcher shop display.
clothes
/ˈkɫoʊðz/, /ˈkɫoʊz/
nounthe things we wear to cover our body, such as pants, shirts, and jackets
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1. He sold ladies' clothes, and he always had two or three shopgirls to help him.
2. Ellen, please ask a maid to find some dry clothes for me, and then I'll go on to the village.
3. - Wear clothes.
4. - You get a whole bunch of clothes in that washing machine!
5. Sharing clothes!
point
/ˈpɔɪnt/
nounthe most important thing that is said or done which highlights the purpose of something
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1. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
2. You can get to this point if you try and push through your fears and inhibitions and force the social interactions.
3. Yes, you guys get points.
4. - Point your toes.
5. Which one pointed first?
to have a go
/hæv ɐ ɡˈoʊ/
phraseto make an attempt to achieve or do something
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1. Then, he let Flip and Berta have a go at it.
2. So why don't you to have a go at it?
3. Assuming you had a go at it.
4. So I'm assuming you've had a go at it, let's work through it together.
5. So I'm assuming you had a go at it.
to suit
/ˈsut/
verb(of a style of clothes, color, etc.) to look good on someone
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1. Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
2. Other states like Florida followed suit.
3. Nevertheless, people still wore suits.
4. Other towns and cities across the country quickly followed suit.
5. Other companies soon followed suit.
to keep to oneself
/kˈiːp tʊ wʌnsˈɛlf/
phraseto choose not to communicate or interact with other people
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1. But if you don't do that, they prefer to keep themselves to themselves.
2. I just need to a keep to myself.
3. But traditionally, the Chinese population here keeps itself to itself.
4. Or do they tend to keep themselves to themselves?
confident
/ˈkɑnfədənt/
adjectivebeing certain about our plans, abilities, the future, etc. and believing that we can gain success
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1. Others are much less confident.
2. - Archers are always confident.
3. Six, be confident.
4. Sox manager, Kid Gleason, is confident.
5. Feel confident.
to go round
/ɡˌoʊ ɹˈaʊnd/
verbto visit or go to someone's place or residence, often for social or friendly purposes
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1. Here too, her daily life went round like an endless machine, with little place for friendliness or conversation.
2. Go round again!
3. Go round.
4. Here we go round the mulberry bush So early in the morning.
5. Go round the other side?
