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check out

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5bookscheck something ↔ outAmE to borrow a book from a library:
The library allows you to check out six books at a time.

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Judicial

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American judicial system

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reserve

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it’s not on reserve

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shelves

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Shelf

shelves of books
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hire

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hire somebody to do something
A City lawyer has been hired to handle the case.

She does the hiring

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weird

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very strange and unusual, and difficult to understand or explain:

A really weird thing happened last night.

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cognition

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Cognition theory

the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something
SYN thought
the regions of the brain that are responsible for memory and cognition

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Perceive

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We perceive through our senses

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8
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Beliefs

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Beliefs

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gist

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the gist the main idea and meaning of what someone has said or written:
gist of
The gist of his argument is that full employment is impossible.

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faculty

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3[countable usually plural] a natural ability, such as the ability to see, hear, or think clearly:
the patient’s mental faculties

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Squirrel

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سنجاب

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12
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Burrow

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Dig down

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sweat

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I was sweating a lot despite the air conditioning.

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panting

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He came in panting after running up the steps.

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duck

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ducking into somewhere cool like a burrow or a hole under a rock

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as the name suggests

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And when I say localized, I mean really localized, because microclimates can be, as the name suggests, pretty small

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sink

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Well, since cold air sinks, and these spots are shaded

18
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perspire

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Sweat

Like when you walk outside on a hot day, you perspire

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cool

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your body cools itself down,

20
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Dehydrate

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the marathon runner dehydrated and fainted

دوندهی ماراتن دچار آب از دست دادگی شد و غش کرد.

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unwittingly

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they could be unwittingly destroying a microclimate that an animal or organism relies on.

22
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Hook

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I was hooked

23
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Run on

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My article ran on the front page

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Barely

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In fact I barely recognized a couple of paragraphs

25
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Craft

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then see if you can craft the story about it, accurately, on dead line.

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strive

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That is really a goal worth striving for.

27
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Elective

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And as elective, you could take some Pre-Law classes like Constitution Law,

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District

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ناحیه، بخش، برزن، حوزه، منطقه، الکا .۱
an electoral district
حوزهی انتخاباتی

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seafarer

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Sailor

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discern

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perceive

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chaotic

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where everything would seem more chaotic.

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horizon

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أفق

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constellation

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صورت فلكي

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monument

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(مجسمه یا لوحه یا ستون یا بنا و غیره در بزرگداشت شخص یا رویداد) یادمان، بنای یادبود، لوحهی یادبود (و غیره)، یادکرد .۱
a monument to the war dead

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pyramid

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أهرام

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chamber

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enclosed space

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miraculous

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Very good

38
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chant

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When religious leaders started chanting with echoes bounced off the stonewalls over and over again

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intriguing

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something that is intriguing is very interesting because it is strange, mysterious, or unexpected

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Worship

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They all worship the same god.

a church where people have worshipped for hundreds of years

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engender

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This had to engender powerful sense of all Neolithic worshipers.

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Extraordinary

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incredible