reservation
/ˌɹɛzɝˈveɪʃən/
nounthe act of arranging something, such as a place on an airplane, in a restaurant, or at a hotel to be kept for one to use later at a particular time
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1. Even this pediatrician had reservations.
2. Reservation are exempt from property taxes.
3. They had reservations.
4. - We have reservations.
5. We have reservations.
nonstop
/ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
adjective(of a flight, train, journey etc.) having or making no stops
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1. But now machines are running nonstop.
2. He was nonstop -
3. The daily life now is nonstop from 5 a.m. to night.
4. And this process was repeated nonstop.
5. Does Christmas music play nonstop all year round?
express
/ɪksˈpɹɛs/
nouna train or bus that travels more quickly than usual because it only makes a few stops
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1. The two young lovers express their passion through and amid the beauties of nature.
2. In the long-term the kiss expresses a connection between people.
3. But the real cross of Christ-- The cross expresses the great love of God for man.
4. Many environmentalists have expressed concern about these powerful electromagnetic networks and their impact on the air and public safety.
5. Express elevator.
departure
/dɪˈpɑɹtʃɝ/
nounthe act of leaving, usually to begin a journey
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1. [Woman Over Speaker] Passengers on 1155 to Los Angeles, departure is now delayed to 11:15 am.
2. A revolving door of CEOs followed Eberhard's departure.
3. The first part is called departures.
4. His departure left more questions than answers.
5. His departure was an ill-omen for the British fleet.
to commute
/kəmˈjut/
verbto regularly travel to one's place of work and home by different means
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1. For some people, one-way commute takes three hours.
2. And so many people commute so regularly.
3. First, shorten your commute.
4. The commute used to serve this function for many people.
5. Bro commute further!
class
/ˈkɫæs/
nouna group of people, services, objects, etc. categorized based on shared qualities or attributes
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1. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class.
2. 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?"
3. They canceled classes, ditched oversize dumbbells, and shifted resources to cardio and circuit training.
4. Your senate was chosen from among the Patrician class.
5. Becky tells the guys to join her in aerobics class.
to board
/ˈbɔɹd/
verbto get on a means of transportation such as a train, bus, aircraft, ship, etc.
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1. On a December night in 1910, the exiled former leader of Honduras, Manuel Bonilla, boarded a borrowed yacht in New Orleans.
2. Billions of people board a plane each year.
3. On June 10, 1990, four crew members and 81 passengers boarded the aircraft.
4. And finally, people with aisle seats board the plane.
5. Two physicians boarded a flight out of Seattle.
terminal
/ˈtɝmənəɫ/
nouna building where trains, buses, planes, or ships start or finish their journey
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1. The terminal has two MetroNap sleep pods.
2. Where is my terminal?
3. They have terminal illnesses.
4. Do both terminals.
5. Failure is not terminal.
rail
/ˈɹeɪɫ/
nouna means of transportation by train; short for railroad
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1. Railroads needed to create an official time system to link the rail system together.
2. He frisked both of my brothers, who were 15 and 16, against the rail on the second floor.
3. So the rails are up
4. Now, the tricky part is getting the rail back on the intake.
5. Kinked rail, gap out rail, step up right here.
local
/ˈɫoʊkəɫ/
nouna bus, train, etc. that makes all or most of the regular stops, allowing people to get on or off
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1. Are these strawberries local?
2. Locals make such carriages in about 4 days.
3. Those three words make locals along the West Coast of North America shudder with fear.
4. Locals blamed nuclear debris from Russian missile launch experiments for the mutations.
5. Their voters are local.
aboard
/əˈbɔɹd/
adverbon or into a vehicle such as a bus, train, plane, etc.
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1. Welcome aboard.
2. Welcome aboard!
3. Alright guys, welcome aboard!
4. Welcome aboard.
5. -Welcome aboard.
compartment
/kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
nounany of the separate sections of a railcar
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1. These compartments are the reticulum, the rumen, the omasum and the abomasum.
2. Each compartment housed a Mexican Free-tailed bat.
3. Duffel compartment to quickly find my gym clothes.
4. Different compartments, zippers, and a really good way to beat the bank.
5. Each compartment housed a Mexican Free-tailed bat.
junction
/ˈdʒəŋkʃən/
nounthe place where two or more things such as roads or railways cross
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1. In healthy people, this junction looks like smooth waves between the epidermis and the dermis.
2. Yellow criss-cross lines mark a box junction.
3. Nobody in the roundabout, the junctions are good.
4. Box junctions are often found in busy areas.
5. Closed junctions are common in the town.
carsick
/ˈkɑɹsɪk/
adjectivefeeling sick because of the motions experienced while traveling in a car
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1. He gets carsick!
2. People get carsick dude! -
3. - Emmy gets carsick.
4. Dogs can get carsick on long trips.
5. - I have carsick.
crossroad
/ˈkɹɔsˌɹoʊd/
nounthe place where a road is crossed by another
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1. This was the crossroad.
2. And we have Crossroads.
3. And then, the crossroads is one of the central recurrent scenes of the blues.
4. This child is at a crossroads.
5. What decisions, crossroads are you at?
driving licence
/dɹˈaɪvɪŋ lˈaɪsəns/
nounan official document that shows someone is qualified to drive a motor vehicle
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1. I didn't have a driving licence.
2. Clean driving licence Good Excel and Powerpoint skills not essential but welcomed’
3. Because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes and they didn't have a full driving licence.
4. So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?
5. On a real test the examiner would check the candidates driving licence, test their eyesight, and explain the format of the test before getting into the car.
GPS
/dʒˌiːpˌiːˈɛs/
nouna satellite system that shows a place, thing, or person's exact position using signals
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1. GPS systems now give accurate locations with an error of only a few meters.
2. Registration, community notification, residency restrictions, GPS monitoring, civil commitment.
3. GPS, check.
4. Solutions to self-control problems require GPS devices of a kind.
5. - My GPS is here.
license number
/lˈaɪsəns nˈʌmbɚ/
nounthe numbers and letters on the plates at the front and back of a vehicle
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1. That's your name, your address, your Social Security, your date of birth, your mother's maiden, your driver’s license number, your background check and your credit report.
2. Instead, absentee voters must have a driver's license number or send a copy of another state I.D.
3. That's driver's license numbers et-cetera.
4. Guards may report unsafe student behavior to the school, and report the license numbers of errant vehicles to authorities.
5. You no longer have to put your driver's license number in because of freedom of information legislation and identity theft.
pavement
/ˈpeɪvmənt/
nounthe hard surface of a road covered with concrete or tarmac
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1. Pavement serves a vital role in a city.
2. Pavement equals accessibility.
3. Pavements protect against erosion and weakening of the soil.
4. Pavement ends ahead?
5. Later, pavement included shells, pebbles, and cobble stones.
sidewalk
/ˈsaɪdˌwɔk/
nouna hard surface or paved path at the side of a street for people to walk on
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1. Some cities have even passed laws that allow Segways to travel only on sidewalks.
2. The sidewalk dims.
3. The sidewalk jumped out in front of you.
4. The sidewalks are gravel.
5. The sidewalk is for pedestrians.
traffic jam
/tɹˈæfɪk dʒˈæm/
nouna large number of bikes, cars, buses, etc. that are waiting in lines behind each other which move very slowly
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1. Experts call them phantom traffic jams.
2. A traffic jam when she's already late!
3. Traffic jams of horses fill the roads!
4. But other examples are traffic jams, stock market, society and disaster recovery, terrorism and insurgency.
5. They love traffic jams.
avenue
/ˈævəˌnu/
nouna wide straight street in a town or a city, usually with buildings and trees on both sides
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1. They're using avenues like TikTok.
2. Huge parade down Pennsylvania Avenue an avenue that has seen many parades.
3. The influx of people brought immediate growth in every avenue.
4. The avenues are basically endless.
5. What were his alternative avenues?
bypass
/ˈbaɪˌpæs/
nouna road that goes round a city or town rather than going through the city center
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1. Dinosaurs totally bypassed that problem.
2. We bypass their clogged arteries.
3. They bypass the record company.
4. - Removal or embolization of vascular malformations - Bypassing the problematic artery
5. - Do a bypass.
parking ticket
/pˈɑːɹkɪŋ tˈɪkɪt/
nounan official notice issued in case a car is parked illegally, typically put on the windshield
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1. One is a parking ticket on Winter Street.
2. Well a whole bunch of these tickets are parking tickets outside city hall.
3. Your dad has a parking ticket.
4. The parking ticket I already had my baby.
5. Paying parking tickets.
business class
/bˈɪznəs klˈæs/
nouna class of seats on an airplane better than economy class in terms of comfort, and less expensive than first class, intended particularly for those traveling on business
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1. Well, business class comes about because of deregulation.
2. Next, our business class passengers may now board.
3. Upgrade to business class.
4. - This is not business class?
5. Production booked me in business class today.
round trip
/ɹˈaʊnd tɹˈɪp/
nouna journey to a destination and back to the point of departure
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1. It's a round trip.
2. Yeah, you want the round trip ticket.
3. You need two of them for a round trip.
4. I would like a round trip ticket.
5. A suite costs around $18,000 for a round trip.
arrival
/ɝˈaɪvəɫ/
nounthe act of arriving at a place from somewhere else
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1. Their arrival would set a new course for the nation toward multiculturalism.
2. In this low-income neighborhood, professionals from the Korean Pest Control Association always announce their arrival.
3. Surveillance cameras at the consulate monitored their arrival.
4. Its arrival brought cataclysmic changes.
5. Its arrival brought cataclysmic changes.
airline
/ˈɛɹˌɫaɪn/
nouna company or business that provides air transportation services for people and goods
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1. Airlines do carry pharmaceuticals and vaccines all the time.
2. Airlines have seen incredible losses.
3. Far from just an aesthetic choice, these upturn tips save airlines a pretty penny in fuel expenses every year.
4. Previously, airlines installed engines in the tail.
5. Airlines offer lower prices only for early bird seats.
international
/ˌɪnɝˈnæʃənəɫ/, /ˌɪntɝˈnæʃənəɫ/
adjectivehappening in or between more than one country
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1. His customers are international.
2. That first race began one of the richest histories in international motor sport.
3. International community saw with suspicion his regime, a remnant of fascist dictatorships from before the war.
4. 75% of our students are international.
5. Then on July 25th, 2000 a fatal crash made international headlines.
immigration
/ˌɪməˈɡɹeɪʃən/
nounthe fact or process of coming to another country to permanently live there; the number of those who do so
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1. Our main story tonight concerns immigration.
2. Immigration does.
3. The attorney general oversees, obviously, the Department of Justice, but importantly, immigration is federal in this country.
4. Immigration changes the family.
5. Immigration built this country.
