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Accommodate

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To provide with a place to live or to be stored in

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Abstract

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Existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object

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Accountant

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Someone who keeps or examines the records of money received, paid, and owed by a company or person

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Adequate/ly

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Enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose

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Altogether

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In total; completely; considering everything

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Annually

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Once every year

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Anticipate

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To imagine or expect that something will happen;

To take action in preparation for something that you think will happen

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Apology

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Act of saying sorry; excuse

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Applicant

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A person who formally requests something, especially a job, or to study at a college or university

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Appropriate

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Suitable or right for a particular situation or person

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Asset

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A useful or valuable quality, skill, or person; something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts

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Awareness

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Knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information or experience

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Badge

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A distinctive emblem worn as a mark of office, membership, achievement, licensed employment, etc

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Barely

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By the smallest amount

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Bargain

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Something on sale at a lower price than its true value;
To try to make someone agree to give you something that is better for you, such as a better price or better working conditions

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16
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Abolish

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To end an activity or custom officially

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Abundance

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The situation in which there is more than enough of something

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Abuse

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To use something for the wrong purpose in a way that is harmful or morally wrong

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Accordance

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Following or obeying a rule, law, wish, etc

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Accordingly

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In a way that is suitable or right for the situation

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Accountability

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The fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which this happens

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Accountable

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Someone who is accountable is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reason for it

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Accounting

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The skill or activity of keeping records of the money a person or organization earns and spends

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Accumulate

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To collect a large number of things over a long period of time

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Accumulation

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An amount of something that has been collected

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Acquisition

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The process of getting something

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Acre

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A unit for measuring area, equal to 4,047 square metres or 4,840 square yards

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Acute

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If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems or damage
An acute pain or illness is one that quickly becomes very severe

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29
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Adhere

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To stick firmly

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Administer

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To control the operation or arrangement of something

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Administrative

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Relating to the arrangements and work that is needed to control the operation of a plan or organization

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Admission

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The act of agreeing that something is true, especially unwillingly

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33
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Adolescent

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A young person who is developing into an adult

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Adverse

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Having a negative or harmful effect on something

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Advocate

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To publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something

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Aesthetic

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Relating to the enjoyment or study of beauty

37
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Affection

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A feeling of liking for a person or place

38
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Affordable

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Not expensive

39
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Aftermath

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The period that follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects that it causes

40
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Agricultural

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Used for farming or relating to farming

41
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Creed

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A set of beliefs that influences the way you live

42
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Aide

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A person whose job is to help someone important, such As a member of a government or a military officer of high rank

43
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Align

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To put things in an exact line or make them parallel

44
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Alignment

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An arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other

45
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Alike

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In a similar way

46
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Allegation

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A statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal

47
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Allege

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To say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof

48
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Alledgedly

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Used when something illegal or wrong is said to have been done, but has not been proved

49
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Allowance, make allowance for someone

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Money that you are given regularly, especially to pay for a particular thing
An amount of money that parents regularly give to their child to spend as they choose
To make allowances for someone is to think about their characteristics and not judge them too severely

50
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Alongside

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Next to or together with

51
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Ambassador

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An important official who works in a foreign country representing his or her own country there, and who is officially accepted in this position by that country

52
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Amend, amendment

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v:
To change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document
Make minor changes in (a text) in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date
n:
Same meaning as verb

53
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Anchor

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Someone or something that gives support when needed, like a ship anchor

54
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Appealing

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Attractive or interesting

55
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Applaud/Applause

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Noun/verb

56
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Applicable

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Affecting or relating to a person or thing

Relevant or appropriate

57
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Appoint

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To choose someone officially for a job or responsibility

To arrange a date or time when a meeting or other event will happen

58
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Articulate

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Able to express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly, or showing this quality
To express in words, to pronounce
To connect two bones by forming a joint

59
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Aside, put/set/lay/etc aside, aside from

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On or to one side
If you put/set aside money, you save it for a particular purpose
If you leave or put a problem or request aside, you ignore it until you are able to solve it
Except for

60
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Aspiration

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Something that you hope to achieve

61
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Aspire

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To want something very much or hope to achieve something or be successful

62
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Assemble

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To come together in a single place or bring parts together in a single group
To make something by joining separate parts

63
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Assembly

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A group of people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of being together
The process of putting together the parts of a machine or structure

64
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Assert

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To behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others
To say that something is certainly true
To do something to show that you have power

65
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Assertion

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A statement that you strongly believe is true

66
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Assign

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To give a particular job or piece of work to someone
To send someone somewhere to do a job
To give property, money, or rights using a legal process

67
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Assurance

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Promise, confidence

68
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Asylum

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Protection or safety, especially that given by a government to people who have been forced to leave their own countries for their safety or because of war
A hospital for people with mental illnesses

69
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Atrocity

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An extremely cruel, violent, or shocking act

The fact of something being extremely cruel, violent, or shocking

70
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Attain

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To reach or succeed in getting something

71
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Attendance, in attendance

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The fact of going somewhere such as a church, school, etc. regularly
The number of people who go to an event, meeting, etc.
Present with someone and helping or taking care of them

72
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Attorney

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A lawyer

73
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Audit

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To make an official examination of the accounts of a business and produce a report
To go to a class or educational course for pleasure or interest, without being tested or receiving a grade at the end
74
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Authentic

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If something is authentic, it is real, true, or what people say it is

75
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Authorize

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To give official permission for something to happen, or to give someone official permission to do something

76
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Await

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The same as wait but transitive

77
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Backdrop

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A large piece of cloth with buildings, countryside, etc. painted on it, hung at the back of a stage during a performance
The view behind something
Background

78
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Backing

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Support, especially money, that someone gives to a person or plan
Music, singing or dancing that supports the main tune, performer, etc.
Something put on the back of something else in order to make it stronger or protect it

79
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Bail

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n:
An amount of money that a person who has been
accused of a crime pays to a law court so that they can be released until their trial. The payment is a way of making certain that the person will return to court for trial
v:
If someone accused of a crime is bailed, they are released until their trial after paying bail to the court

80
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Ballot

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n:
A system or occasion of secret voting
A piece of paper on which you write your vote
v:
To organize a secret vote by a group of people in order to find out their views

81
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Bare

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Without any clothes or not covered by anything
Only the most basic or important
If a cupboard or room is bare, there is nothing in it
To take away the thing that is covering something so that it can be seen

82
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Bat

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To open and close your eyes quickly several times, especially to attract attention or admiration

83
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Bay

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(of dogs and wolves) to make a long, deep cry repeatedly

A brown horse

84
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Beam

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To smile with obvious pleasure

85
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Beneficiary

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A person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of something else
A person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy.

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