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Toil 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 29

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Toil 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 29 /tɔɪl/ (noun & verb) Noun: hard work, drudgery, labor, chore, slog, donkeywork Verb: to work very hard especially physically, slave, labor, sweat, strive, work one’s fingers to the bone – move with difficulty, drag oneself, struggle Robots take toil from the agricultural fields Le Plan Medoc, France–Repetitive and…

Insist 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Insist 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ɪnˈsɪst/ (verb) to demand something assertively and forcefully in spite of opposition, maintain something against opposition, contend, enforce, assert, require, claim – state something forcefully, stipulate APC crises worsens as aggrieved members insist on December convention The internal crises rocking the All Progressives Congress deepened on Friday with…

Bait 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Bait 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /beɪt/ (noun & verb) Noun: anything especially food that is used to attract and catch animals, carrot, enticement, inducement, lure, attraction, draw, temptation, pull Verb: to place any food as a bait on a hook while fishing, tempt, lure, attract, pull, draw – to make a dog attack…

Juvenile 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Juvenile 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˈdʒuː.vən.aɪl/ (adj & noun) Adjective: too young and immature, callow, fledgling, childish, teenage, youthful, adolescent, bay-faced, infantile, babyish Noun: youngers, teenager, teen, adolescent Juvenile delinquency is the act of committing a crime at a very young age. A juvenile delinquent is a young person, particularly a teenager under…

Censor 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Censor 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˈsent.səʳ/ (noun & verb) Noun: a person who edits and cuts out offensive parts from books, films, etc., expurgator, bowdlerizer, editor, reviewer, corrector, inspector Verb: to expurgate, edit and remove the offensive parts from films, books, etc., cut, remove, delete parts of, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, amend Book censorship is…

Disaster 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Disaster 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /dɪˈzɑː.stəʳ/ (noun) severe harm, damage or death, serious difficulty, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm – misadventure, mishap, setback, misfortune, debacle, failure, fiasco, adversary Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on…

Excessive 504 Absolutely Essential Words lesson 28

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Excessive 504 Absolutely Essential Words lesson 28 /ekˈses.ɪv/ (adj) more than enough, unwarranted, too much, undue, unnecessary, immoderate, superfluous, disproportionate, extreme, overindulgent, lavish Cumulative and excessive sun exposure causes mainly basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer, while episodes of severe blistering sunburns, usually before age 18, can cause melanoma later in life. Other less…

Disclose 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Disclose 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /dɪˈskləʊz/ (verb) to display something, make something known, show, betray, demonstrate, illustrate, make public, evince, exhibit, reveal, divulge, uncover, unveil, release The extra-hot spotlight on the son of the Democratic front-runner has caused the tabloids to unearth all sorts of sordid details, from drug relapses to a paternity…

Illustrate 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Illustrate 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˈɪl.ə.streɪt/ (verb) to draw pictures for magazines, books, etc. – show or evince something, elucidate, display, exemplify, disclose, reveal, demonstrate, illuminate, clarify This is a cover photo for The Magic Tree House series I illustrated as an illustrator. It contains all the elements of the story, as well…

Undernourished 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28

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Undernourished 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˌʌn.dəˈnʌr.ɪʃt/ (adj) suffering from malnutrition, not getting enough nutritious food to maintain health, lacking enough nutrients for optimum health, starved, underfed, famished, malnourished, hungry Malnutrition (undernutrition) is caused by a lack of nutrients, either as a result of a poor diet or problems absorbing nutrients from food. The…