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Word List with 29 words
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accommodate

To do a kindness or a favor to; oblige; to accommodate a friend.

acquire

To come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own:

amateur

A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.

beginning

To proceed to perform the first or earliest part of some action; commence; start:

believe

To have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so:

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breathe

To take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.

conscience

The inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action:

definite

Clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact:

discipline

Training to act in accordance with rules; drill:

existence

Continuance in being or life; life:

foreign

Of, pertaining to, or derived from another country or nation; not native:

gauge

To determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.

guarantee

A promise or assurance, esp. one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time:

height

Extent or distance upward.

hierarchy

Any system of persons or things ranked one above another.

license

Formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.

miniature

A representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.

ought

Duty or obligation.

pronunciation

The act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability.

rhythm

Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

succeed

To happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result:

twelfth

Next after the eleventh; being the ordinal number for 12.

vacuum

A space entirely devoid of matter.

judgment

A judicial decision given by a judge or court; the obligation a debt; the certificate embodying such a decision and issued against the obligor

usually

Habitual or customary: