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981 lines
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"definition": "in or to a foreign country",
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"example": "to be/go/travel/live abroad\nShe worked abroad for a year.",
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"definition": "to take in a liquid, gas or other substance from the surface or space around",
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"definition": "able to take in something easily, especially liquid",
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"definition": "noun form of \"absorb\"",
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"example": "Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food.",
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"definition": "(formal) to give drugs, medicine, etc. to somebody",
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"example": "Police believe his wife could not have administered the poison.",
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"definition": "(of physical exercise) especially designed to improve the function of the heart and lungs",
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"example": "aerobic exercise",
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"audio_tts_text": "aerobic",
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"word": "alleviate",
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"definition": "to make something less severe",
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"example": "to alleviate suffering\nA number of measures were taken to alleviate the problem.",
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"word": "ascertain",
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"definition": "to find out the true or correct information about something",
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"example": "I ascertained that the driver was not badly hurt.\nCould you ascertain whether she will be coming to the meeting?\nIt can be difficult to ascertain the facts.",
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"audio_tts_text": "ascertain",
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"word": "bulk",
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"definition": "(of something) the main part of something; most of something",
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"example": "The bulk of the population lives in cities.",
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"audio_tts_text": "bulk",
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"word": "capacity",
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"definition": "the total number of things or people that a container or space can hold",
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"example": "The theatre has a seating capacity of 2 000.\na fuel tank with a capacity of 50 litres",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/T-N-116-Capacity-display-posters-cup_ver_1.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "capacity",
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"definition": "(especially of a disease) lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of",
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"example": "chronic bronchitis/arthritis/asthma\nthe country’s chronic unemployment problem\na chronic shortage of housing in rural areas",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/pain-management-los-angeles.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "chronic",
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"word": "cognition",
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"definition": "the use of mental processes",
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"example": "The connections between cognition and language seem to be similar in all cultures.",
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"audio_tts_text": "cognition",
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"word": "combat",
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"definition": "to stop something unpleasant or harmful from happening or from getting worse",
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"example": "measures to combat crime/inflation/unemployment/disease",
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"audio_tts_text": "combat",
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"word": "complex",
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"definition": "complicated, difficult to understand",
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"example": "a complex argument/problem/subject\nthe complex structure of the human brain",
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"audio_tts_text": "complex",
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"word": "complexity",
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"definition": "noun form of \"complex\"",
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"example": "the increasing complexity of modern telecommunication systems\nI was astonished by the size and complexity of the problem.",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/paste-5682241732609 (1).jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "complexity",
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"word": "concentration",
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"definition": "(of something) a lot of something in one place",
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"example": "a concentration of industry in the north of the country",
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"audio_tts_text": "concentration",
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"word": "counteract",
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"definition": "to work against something ; to reduce or prevent the bad or harmful effects of something",
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"example": "These exercises aim to counteract the effects of stress and tension.",
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"audio_tts_text": "counteract",
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"word": "cripple",
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"definition": "to seriously damage or harm somebody/something",
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"example": "The industry has been financially crippled by these policies.\nHe was crippled by polio as a child.",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/4_help-any-cripple.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "cripple",
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"audio_lang": "en-US",
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"word": "culture",
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"definition": "(specialist) the growing of plants or breeding of particular animals in order to get a particular substance or crop from them",
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"example": "the culture of silkworms (= for silk)",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/nextgov-medium.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "culture",
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"word": "decade",
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"definition": "a period of ten years, especially a continuous period, such as 1910–1919 or 2000–2009",
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"example": "The past decade has seen a huge rise in the number of broadband users.",
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"audio_tts_text": "decade",
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"word": "decline",
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"definition": "to become smaller, fewer, weaker, etc.",
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"example": "Support for the party continues to decline.\nThe number of tourists to the resort declined by 10% last year.",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/decline1.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "decline",
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"word": "deem",
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"definition": "to have a particular opinion about something",
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"example": "The evening was deemed a great success.\nI deem it an honour to be invited.\nShe deemed it prudent not to say anything.\nThey would take any action deemed necessary",
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"image_url": "/media/decks_media/barron/deem-scrutinizing1.jpg",
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"audio_tts_text": "deem",
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"word": "dementia",
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"definition": "a serious mental disorder caused by brain disease or injury, that affects the ability to think, remember and behave normally",
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"audio_tts_text": "dementia",
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"word": "desirable",
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"definition": "(formal) that you would like to have or do; worth having or doing",
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"example": "The house has many desirable features.\nShe chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary.",
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"audio_tts_text": "desirable",
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"definition": "a strong wish to have or do something",
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"example": "a strong desire for power\nShe felt an overwhelming desire to return home.\nenough money to satisfy all your desires",
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"definition": "(formal) to want something; to wish for something",
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"audio_tts_text": "desire",
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"definition": "the fact or process of becoming worse",
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"audio_tts_text": "deterioration",
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"definition": "to say exactly what an illness or the cause of a problem is",
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"definition": "connected with identifying something, especially an illness",
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"example": "to carry out diagnostic assessments/tests\nspecific conditions which are diagnostic of AIDS",
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"definition": "(medical) an illness that causes a part of the body to stop functioning correctly (CHỨNG RỐI LOẠN)",
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"definition": "rapid spread of a disease",
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