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• afar
  / əˈfa: / At, to, or from a great distance; far away.
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• ahoy
  / əˈhɔɪ / (nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.
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• bureau
  / bjuəˈrəu / An administrative unit of government; office.
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• dash
  / dæʃ / Punctuation mark.
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• deli
  (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
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• espalier
  / ɪsˈpæljə / Plant that has been managed for the production of fruit by pruning and tying branches to a flat frame or wall.
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• foil
  / fɔɪl / A very thin sheet of metal.
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• foyer
  / ˈfɔɪeɪ / Room.
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• frog
  / frɔg / Order of amphibians.
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• harem
  / ˈhɛərəm / The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.
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• hastily
  / ˈheɪstɪlɪ / In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
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• heifer
  / ˈhefə / A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
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• houseboat
  / ˈhausbəut / Ship type.
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• idea
  / aɪˈdɪə / Mental image or concept.
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• idol
  / ˈaɪdl / A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.
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• impede
  / ɪmˈpi:d / (transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
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• inborn
  / ˈɪnˈbɔ:n / Innate, possessed by an organism at birth.
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• item
  / ˈaɪtəm / A distinct physical object.
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• mailmen
  Employee of the post office or postal service, who delivers mail to residences and businesses.
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• mane
  / meɪn / Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
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• megaton
  / ˈmegətʌn / A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
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• offbeat
  (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
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• offer
  / ˈɔfə / A proposal that has been made.
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• opium
  / ˈəupjəm / Dried latex obtained from the opium poppy.
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• peat
  / pi:t / Accumulation of partially decayed vegetation.
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• pest
  / pest / (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic.
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• pretentiously
  In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
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• quart
  Unit of volume.
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• reek
  / ri:k / A strong unpleasant smell.
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• rush
  / rʌʃ / Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
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• spherical
  / ˈsferɪkəl / Round geometrical and circular object in three-dimensional space; special case of spheroid.
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• thirsty
  / ˈθə:stɪ / Craving for fluids.
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• trawling
  A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat.
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• tuba
  / ˈtju:bə / Type of musical instrument of the brass family.
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• tuft
  / tʌft / Type of textile weaving in which a thread is inserted on a primary base.
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• twee
  / twi: / (Britain, pejorative) Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
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• user
  / ˈju:zə / One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.
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• waist
  / weɪst / The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
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• wife
  / waɪf / Female spouse.
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• yank
  / jæŋk / A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
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• yuck
  Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
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