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Ensure

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Make sure in smth
I’ve just left my house but I didn’t remember did I close the door so that I returned to ensure

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Insure

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🚗 car/ medical 🏥 insurance

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Assure

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Make someone sure in your opinion

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Reassure

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😭=>reassure him
Make smb sure that everything will be okay

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Sensible

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Sensitive

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😊😭teeth

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Remind

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to make someone remember something, or remember to do something

Every time we meet he reminds me about the money he lent me.
Nonetheless, this wonderfully researched and written book triumphs in reminding us that history is more compelling than fiction

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Remain

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Still stay in

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Opportunity

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Smth that you can affect on

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Possibility

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Chance that can happened in your life

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Chance

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You can’t change

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Confess

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Tell secret to disclose it( because you worried about it and want to share, even if you think it is not your fault)
Raskolnikov confessed in crime after his 3 visit to Sonya

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Admit

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Accept

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Agree

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Confirm

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Delay

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Postpone

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Require

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Ask somebody for something
It’s required to have a dress code in the theater 🎭

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Oblige

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Must; force; obligation
We oblige to pay taxes.
Boss: you oblige to do your work carefully. It is in your labor contract.

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Claim. / Demand

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You believe you are true so you claim others do what you need
I claim you to give my documents back!

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assume[s’u:] suspect

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to think that something is likely to be true, although you have no proof

As a result, philosophical modernity assumes that human beings are merely a higher form of animal life resulting from a slow evolutionary process.

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Consider

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1 to think carefully about a decision or particular part of it
Have you considered surgery?
[ + doing sth ] We’re considering buying a new car.
If you buy an old house, you have to consider the cost of repairs.
2 opinion
I don’t consider myself to be a great athlete.
They don’t consider that he did anything wrong.

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Suspect

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Not sure but maybe, it’s possible

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Self-consciously

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Embarrassing

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Self-consciousnesses

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“Self mind”; opinion about yourself

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Conscientious

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Trying to do honestly + kindly

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Commit commitment

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=Require, oblige having commitments

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Abandoned

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Abundant

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Redundant

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