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"Bodies" Make Up Fake Coral Reef | National Geographic

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warming

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US / ˈwɔːmɪŋ /

UK / ˈwɔːrmɪŋ /

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  • verb
  • To become more friendly or to like something
  • To make something hotter

display

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  • noun
  • Arrangement of objects so people can see or buy
  • verb
  • (Animals) to indicate readiness for sex
  • To show, e.g. your feelings, thoughts; demonstrate
  • To put so they can be seen or be bought

tourist

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  • noun
  • Someone who travels to a place for pleasure

layout

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  • noun
  • Plan or design of something, e.g. of book page

huge

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  • adjecitve
  • Very very large

add

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US / æd /

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  • verb
  • To include as well
  • To put two things or numbers together, e.g. 2+2

encourage

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  • verb
  • To increase the chance of something happening
  • To make someone more determined or confident

main

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US / meɪn /

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  • adjecitve
  • Most important; most often used

pressure

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  • noun
  • Anxiety caused by difficult problems
  • Force, weight when pressing against a thing
  • Strong persuasion to do something
  • verb
  • To apply force to something
  • To persuade or force someone to do something

drop

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  • noun
  • Distance between a higher and a lower level
  • Act of letting something fall (from your hand)
  • A decrease in quantity or quality; reduction
  • Tiny amount of liquid, with rounded bottom
  • verb
  • To drive someone to a place and then drive away
  • To let something fall from your hand
  • To fall or lie down quickly, as when shot
  • To decide to stop something e.g. a course)
  • To (cause to) reduce in quantity or quality

both

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  • determiner
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time
  • pronoun
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time

spot

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  • noun
  • A certain place or area
  • A difficult time; awkward situation
  • Place or ranking on a list
  • A small amount of (substance help hard work etc.)
  • Mark caused by a drop of liquid, food, etc.
  • verb
  • To see someone or something by chance

way

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US / weɪ /

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  • adverb
  • Used to emphasize the amount of something
  • noun
  • Particular aspect of something being thought about
  • One of various choices that could be made
  • Particular existing condition or state
  • (Often long) distance or length of time
  • How something is done
  • Route to go to a place
  • Small street
  • Usual behavior, emotions or habits of someone

they

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US / ðeɪ /

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  • pronoun
  • Two or more people, animals, or things

all

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US / ɔ:l /

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  • adverb
  • Completely; totally
  • determiner
  • Being every one of something
  • pronoun
  • 100% of something; the complete amount

discharge

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  • noun
  • A substance that has been released
  • The retirement of someone from service e.g. army
  • Act of firing a weapon
  • Substance that is released
  • verb
  • To complete a task that has been assigned
  • To produce or release a substance
  • To deliver an electric charge
  • To let someone leave the army or other service
  • To fire or shoot (a gun)
  • To release a person or thing from jail, hospital

bring

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  • verb
  • To take or go with someone to a place

design

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  • noun
  • The way something is planned, to fulfill a purpose
  • verb
  • To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
  • To think of a plan

diver

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  • noun
  • Person swimming under water

project

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  • noun
  • A planned piece of work for specific purpose
  • Group of homes built by government for poor people
  • verb
  • To predict what will happen in the future
  • To show something on a screen using light
  • To stick out past the edge of something

configuration

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US / kənˌfɪgəˈreɪʃn /

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  • noun
  • A shape or outline; a method of arrangement

ongoing

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  • adjecitve
  • Continuing to exist or be in progress

envision

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  • verb
  • To imagine or picture in your mind

algae

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  • noun
  • Green organisms that live in still water

between

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  • preposition
  • From one person, thing, or place, to another
  • In the space that separates two objects
  • Among two or more people who share something

temperature

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US / ˈtemprətʃə(r) /

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  • noun
  • When you your body heat is above normal
  • How hot or cold something is, e.g. the weather

only

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  • adverb
  • Just one; just that amount or thing; not more than
  • Not very important or serious
  • Just that type of thing, person
  • Short time ago; not before a certain time
  • conjunction
  • Except; but

any

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  • adjecitve
  • One, or some, no matter which
  • pronoun
  • One (thing) of many; some

pollution

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  • noun
  • Dangerous substances released into an environment

think

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  • verb
  • To have an idea about something without certainty
  • To have an idea, opinion or belief about something

over

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  • adverb
  • Finished; no longer happening
  • Towards the ground/away from a standing position
  • noun
  • A set of six consecutive balls bowled in cricket
  • other
  • Finished
  • preposition
  • Showing the relation when a thing is above another
  • On or covering something
  • Above or across something
  • More than you need
  • From one side to the other
  • In the direction of; toward

out

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  • adverb
  • No longer stylish (e.g. fashion)
  • Away from home, business, or the usual place
  • In a direction/movement away from inside or center
  • noun
  • Act when a batter cannot continue playing
  • verb
  • To tell people a secret

hope

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  • noun
  • When you wish something will happen; what you wish
  • verb
  • To expect and want something to happen

neighbourhood

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  • noun
  • Area of a town or city that people live in

help

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  • noun
  • Something given to enable a person to do something
  • Assistance given to someone in need
  • Someone who makes something easier or possible
  • verb
  • To act to enable a person to do something; assist
  • To make something better or less difficult

variety

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  • noun
  • Particular type of thing or person

keep

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US / ki:p /

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  • noun
  • Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
  • Money spent on you so you can live in a place
  • verb
  • To continue doing something; not to stop
  • To stop balls going in a goal in sports
  • To not give back or return something
  • (Of food) to not spoil or not rot
  • To take possession of something to own, e.g. a pet
  • To have and continue to hold something
  • To do something that you have promised or agreed
  • To stay in a certain place or condition
  • To maintain the rules

lie

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  • noun
  • An untrue statement, when you know it is not true
  • verb
  • To be in a horizontal or flat position
  • To say something that you know is not true

particular

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  • adjecitve
  • One specific (one)
  • Having firm ideas about what is desirable
  • Being special or more than is typical

maintain

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US / meɪn'teɪn /

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  • verb
  • To keep saying something a certain way
  • To keep (machine) working by checking, repairing
  • To keep, exist or continue without changing

mesoamerican

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US / /

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  • adjecitve
  • Member of one of the various peoples inhabiting Mesoamerica

where

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US / hwɛə /

UK / hwɛr, wɛr /

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  • conjunction
  • At or in the place which
  • In whatever place
  • pronoun
  • Word you use to ask the location of something

coral

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US / 'kɒrəl /

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  • adjecitve
  • Color that is a combination of pink and orange
  • noun
  • Marine substance made from bones of sea creatures

fish

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  • noun
  • Animal that swims and lives in water
  • verb
  • To go fishing with a net or hook

lot

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US / lɒt /

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  • noun
  • What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
  • A group of people seen together
  • Item for sale at an auction
  • Small area of land used for a purpose e.g. parking

taylor

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  • proper noun
  • A city in southeastern Michigan, southwest of Detroit; population 60,619 (est. 2008).

and

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US / ənd /

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  • conjunction
  • Used to refer to two or more things
  • Plus; in addition; on top of that
  • Used to introduce an action that follows another

hide

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  • noun
  • The skin of an animal used for making leather
  • verb
  • To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found

dive

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US / daɪv /

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  • noun
  • Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
  • Rapid fall through air
  • A jump into water head-first from a high place
  • Rapid fall in the value or price of something
  • verb
  • To swim deep under water with an air supply
  • To rapid fall through air
  • To jump into water head-first
  • (Of prices) to rapidly fall

from

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US / frəm /

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  • preposition
  • Starting at a particular place, time or level

put

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  • phrasal verb
  • to make a light stop shining by pressing or moving a switch
  • verb
  • To move or place a thing in a particular position
  • To rate something in importance or value
  • To write or say something in a certain manner

formation

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  • noun
  • Process of creating; making a particular shape

business

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  • noun
  • A company formed for making profit
  • Matter that has to be dealt with; task; situation
  • Activity of working to make a profit

finish

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  • noun
  • End of something; completion
  • Final coat (of paint) applied to a surface
  • verb
  • To use or consume all of something
  • To reach the end; to complete something
  • To put a final surface (e.g. paint) on something

wide

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  • adjecitve
  • Having a great distance from one side to the other
  • adverb
  • Fully; completely

become

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  • verb
  • To begin to be; grow to be; develop into
  • To be suitable for a particular job or role

creature

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  • noun
  • Animal of any type

structure

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  • noun
  • The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in
  • verb
  • To plan, organize, or arrange the parts of something

size

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  • noun
  • How big or small a thing is
  • Standard measurements for clothing, shoes
  • verb
  • To make something to fit a particular measurement
  • To organize or group from small to large

not

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  • adverb
  • Word indicating the negative
  • (Used to form the negative of verbs)

statue

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  • noun
  • Stone or metal image of a person, often carved

but

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US / bət /

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  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

nearly

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US / ˈniəli /

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  • adverb
  • Not completely; almost

life

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US / laɪf /

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  • noun
  • All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
  • Period of time things live, from birth to death

coat

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  • noun
  • Clothing worn outside over your normal clothes
  • verb
  • To cover something thinly with something

barrier

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  • noun
  • Difficult situation preventing something happening
  • Structure or object that stops free movement

museum

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  • noun
  • Building to display art/science/history objects

south

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  • adjecitve
  • Direction to your right when facing the rising sun
  • Coming from the opposite direction from north
  • noun
  • The direction to your right of the rising sun

mexico

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  • proper noun
  • A country in southwestern North America, with extensive coastlines on the Gulf of Mexico and the Pac

really

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  • adverb
  • Used to stress something that is said; definitely
  • In a true or accurate manner
  • Very

mecca

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  • other
  • A place that attracts many visitors

ever

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  • adverb
  • At any time; at all times in the future

marine

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  • adjecitve
  • Of the ocean or ocean plants and animals
  • Concerning sailing or doing business by sea
  • noun
  • Soldier trained to serve on land and sea

installation

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  • noun
  • Process of setting up equipment to use

visit

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  • noun
  • Trip to a place for a time, usually for a reason
  • verb
  • To go to a place for a time, usually for a reason

actually

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  • adverb
  • Used to add new (often different) information

area

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  • noun
  • Amount of measured space
  • A specific section or space; part of a region
  • A subject or field of study

balance

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  • noun
  • Instrument for weighing things
  • Being stable; having equal weight on both sides
  • Money remaining after paying costs
  • verb
  • To be steady by having equal weight on both sides
  • To make two or more things equal

indirectly

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  • adverb
  • In a manner that is not direct or straight

continue

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  • verb
  • To do something without stopping, or after pausing
  • To start doing again after a break, pause, or stop

already

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  • adverb
  • Having happened or been done before this time

day

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  • noun
  • A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
  • The period of time when it is light outside
  • Person's name

many

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  • determiner
  • Used to refer a large number of things

try

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  • noun
  • Act of putting the ball over the rugby goal line
  • verb
  • To make an effort, to attempt to do something
  • To examine someone or something in a court of law
  • To test to see if it is good or you like it
  • To make a person go through hardship; test
  • To examine something to see if it works

will

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  • noun
  • Desire or choice of someone
  • Document saying who gets your money when you die
  • Strong desire to do something; determination
  • Desire to do something; strong wish to do
  • other
  • Used with verbs to express the future
  • verb
  • To leave property to someone after your death
  • To use mental effort to make something happen
  • Am (is, are) likely to do
  • To influence someone to do something
  • To make something happen by strongly wanting it

beautiful

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  • adjecitve
  • Having dome something well
  • Being very attractive or appealing physically

thousand

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  • number
  • Number 1,000

sort

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  • noun
  • Group or class of similar things or people
  • verb
  • To organize things by putting them into groups
  • To deal with things in an organized way

available

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  • adjecitve
  • Present and able to be used
  • Able to be used at a scheduled time

lobster

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  • noun
  • Large hard-shelled sea crustacean, prized as food

novel

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  • adjecitve
  • Unusual and new or different from previous things
  • noun
  • Written fiction story

make

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  • noun
  • Product made by a particular company; brand
  • verb
  • To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
  • To get to (a place) on time
  • To gain the status of (teacher, lawyer, etc.)
  • To create something by putting things together
  • To earn a certain amount of money at a job
  • To cause or force a person to do something
  • To cause something to happen or be formed

other

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  • adjecitve
  • A thing different from that mentioned
  • determiner
  • (Something) else; not the first (one)
  • pronoun
  • Being the one and only thing of that category

school

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  • adjecitve
  • Being to do with schools and education
  • noun
  • Large group of fish that swim together
  • Education of a child
  • Building where you learn in classes with a teacher
  • A particular belief or idea about something
  • verb
  • To teach or train someone to know or do something

receive

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  • verb
  • To get something someone has given or sent to you
  • To allow someone to become a member (of a club)
  • To welcome someone as a guest into your home
  • To respond to (e.g. news) in a particular way

one

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  • pronoun
  • You; we; people in general; someone
  • The thing or person previously referred to
  • adjecitve
  • Used to refer to people generally
  • Being a strong example of (something mentioned)
  • number
  • Number 1

live

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  • adjecitve
  • Being broadcast as events happen, not recorded
  • Carrying electric current; able to give a shock
  • Glowing because burning; hot
  • Not yet killed (for food)
  • adverb
  • (Music, drama) as it is performed
  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town

big

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US / bɪɡ /

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  • adjecitve
  • Popular
  • Serious
  • Large

into

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  • preposition
  • Moving or going inside something
  • In the same direction as; in the direction of
  • So as to become; taking the state of

kind

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  • adjecitve
  • In a caring and helpful manner
  • friendly and considerate
  • noun
  • One type of thing

natural

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  • adjecitve
  • Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
  • Not made by humans; without human intervention

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  • Type of wooden seat
  • verb
  • To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
  • To complete or finalize e.g. a contract or debt
  • To end some troubles by reaching an agreement
  • To become accustomed to a new environment
  • (Of liquids) to move to the bottom of a container

year

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  • Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
  • Used to refer to the age of a person

jason

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  • The son of the king of Iolcos in Thessaly, and leader of the Argonauts in the quest for the Golden F

stretch

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  • noun
  • Making arm, leg muscles longer to ease them
  • A consecutive row of things
  • A period of time
  • verb
  • To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
  • To make something bigger by pulling on it

colorful

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  • adjecitve
  • Being exciting or interesting; lively
  • Having a lot of color or colors

this

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  • adjecitve
  • Used to indicate something already been discussed
  • Used to indicate something happening around now
  • adverb
  • An indication by a physical motion or gesture
  • A specific amount of
  • determiner
  • Person, thing, or idea near you
  • pronoun
  • Person, thing that has already been discussed

may

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  • noun
  • 5th month of the year
  • other
  • Used to express a desire
  • Expresses permission, possibility or probability
  • Used to show that a thing could be true

the

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  • article
  • Used to refer to something already mentioned
  • Used to show there is only one of something
  • determiner
  • Used to describe all of a family

below

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  • In a lower position, place, or level

perfect

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  • adjecitve
  • So good it cannot be improved
  • verb
  • To do something so well, it cannot be done better

you

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  • pronoun
  • Person someone is speaking or writing to
  • Person or people in general

turn

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  • noun
  • Place where changing of direction happens
  • Your time or chance to perform a duty
  • Your chance to play or do in say a game
  • Unexpected change, as in the weather
  • verb
  • To become (a particular age)
  • To become a different quality, color, etc.
  • To change the direction of something, e.g. a car
  • To move in an opposite direction or position
  • To shape metal with a spinning tool

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  • Drawing of how something should be done or made

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  • Base of something such as a mountain or vase
  • Length of 12 inches or about 25 cm
  • Lowest part of the leg we use to stand on

month

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  • One of 12 28-31 day periods in the year

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  • Someone whose job is designing machines, buildings
  • Someone whose job is to repair or maintain engines

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  • Line of rocks or sand at the surface of the ocean
  • Rolling up sail to make it smaller in strong winds
  • verb
  • To roll up sail to make it smaller in strong winds

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  • Something attractive that produces great pleasure
  • Physically or visually attractive person

protect

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  • To defend someone or something from harm or danger

could

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  • Past form of 'can' to mean have ability
  • Used to ask for something politely, or to offer

his

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  • Something belonging to a male person

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  • Person who supports a family
  • Company or group that offers a particular service

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  • Not present
  • adverb
  • Disappear completely
  • Doing something with a lot of energy
  • Not here; far from here; in a different direction
  • To a different area, location

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a later or slower time than expected
  • Being in a losing position in a sporting event
  • Being in the past; old fashioned
  • adverb
  • Remaining
  • noun
  • The part of the body that one sits on
  • preposition
  • At or toward the back of someone or something
  • Supporting or helping someone

part

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  • adjecitve
  • To some degree; half; not fully
  • noun
  • Division of a book
  • Ratio of something, e.g. 3 of gin, 1 of tonic
  • A line in a person's hair, made with a comb
  • Character an actor plays on stage, movie, or TV
  • Some, but not all of a specific thing
  • Role in causing something to happen
  • verb
  • To make a line in a person's hair, by using a comb
  • To move two things apart creating a space
  • To leave someone, or to break off a relationship

hundred

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  • number
  • 100

see

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  • verb
  • To go on a date with someone
  • To predict whether something is, or will be true
  • To understand what someone says
  • To use your eyes to look at something
  • To visit a place often for sightseeing or pleasure
  • To visit or meet with someone
  • To find out by waiting or looking
  • To watch (a game, movie or TV show)

unit

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  • One apartment in a building
  • Group of people, e.g. soldiers, that work together
  • A chapter of a textbook
  • A standard of measurement of something
  • Single item made by a company

exist

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  • verb
  • To be present, alive or real

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  • Creative skill using the imagination e.g. painting
  • A skill or talent you have

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  • An increase in something
  • verb
  • To increase something; to make something better
  • To push someone or something up from beneath them

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  • verb
  • To put in a particular location or direction

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  • All the humans, events, activities on the earth
  • Political division due to some kind of similarity

artificial

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  • Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
  • (Something) made by people; not created by nature

century

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  • noun
  • Period of 100 years

threat

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  • noun
  • Warning of probable trouble
  • A warning that you may be harmed

offer

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  • Price you say you are willing to pay for something
  • Act of making a thing available to be accepted
  • verb
  • To suggest a price you are willing to pay
  • To give the opportunity to accept something
  • To say you are willing to do something
  • To give or say something as an act of worship

number

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  • noun
  • Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
  • Particular song or dance performed during a show
  • Total quantity or amount of things
  • verb
  • To put numbers on things
  • To assign a sequence within a group, series, set
  • To claim to be part of a larger group, series, set

site

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  • noun
  • Place that is reserved for a particular activity
  • Location of building work
  • Location of something
  • Place where something of special interest happened
  • Website
  • verb
  • To place something in a particular position, area

different

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  • adjecitve
  • Not of the same kind; unlike other things

type

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  • noun
  • Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
  • Group of things or people sharing common features
  • verb
  • To identify something belonging to a group
  • To write by touching keys on a keyboard

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  • adjecitve
  • 2nd; the one following first
  • noun
  • Unit of time; one sixtieth of a minute
  • Short period of time that you wait for someone
  • (Do) soon

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  • adjecitve
  • 1st; Coming before all others in time or place
  • noun
  • Something that has not happened before
  • Position of the winner of a competition

then

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  • adverb
  • A time that is not now
  • Following another thing in time or arrangement
  • Following on reasonably from what was just stated
  • At that time, not now

mean

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  • adjecitve
  • Being good at
  • Nasty; unkind
  • Not liking to spend money; cheap; stingy
  • noun
  • Average of a set of numbers
  • verb
  • To express a particular idea or thought
  • To intend to do something in particular
  • To have a particular meaning or value

like

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in status or kind to something else
  • Similar; the same
  • adverb
  • For example
  • preposition
  • Used as a filler; used to ad emphasis
  • In a way similar to the way something is done
  • Such as; for example
  • verb
  • To want to
  • To find something pleasing; to prefer something

that

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  • adjecitve
  • The person or thing being talked about
  • Used to identify something both the speakers know
  • adverb
  • Used to reinforce adjectives and adverbs
  • To such a degree
  • conjunction
  • Used to connect a noun clause
  • Used to introduce an adverbial clause
  • Used to introduce a noun clause
  • determiner
  • Used as a noun to refer to something
  • pronoun
  • Referring an object far away
  • Used to refer to the relative pronoun ‘which’

colossal

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  • adjecitve
  • Being extremely large in size or amount

touch

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  • noun
  • Certain way of doing that makes something special
  • A small amount of something
  • Feeling of a surface
  • verb
  • To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
  • To be next to each other with no space between
  • To get involved with (used in negative)
  • To feel an object with your fingers, etc.

preserve

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  • noun
  • Protected area of land with plants and animals
  • verb
  • To cook food so it can be kept for long periods
  • To protect something from harm, loss or damage
  • To keep or maintain unchanged or perfect

cancun

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  • noun
  • A popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula

sink

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  • noun
  • Large bowl in a kitchen or washroom for washing
  • verb
  • To push something down into the ground
  • To dig (a well)
  • To move down toward a lower point
  • To decrease in value or amount

great

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  • adjecitve
  • Very large in size
  • Very important
  • Very good; fantastic; wonderful
  • adverb
  • Very good; better than before
  • noun
  • Successful and well-admired person

attract

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  • verb
  • To make something move closer using magnetic force
  • To make someone notice and become interested in

people

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  • noun
  • Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • Men, Women, Children

health

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  • noun
  • (Person, company) being in a good condition; well

boat

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  • noun
  • Small form of transport for traveling on water
  • verb
  • To travel on a lake or river

since

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  • adverb
  • At a point before the present time
  • conjunction
  • For this reason; because
  • preposition
  • From the time in the past that

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  • adjecitve
  • Working in an organized, logical way
  • noun
  • Set of organized, planned ideas that work together

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  • verb
  • To supply money for something

just

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  • adjecitve
  • Proper or appropriate; as is deserved
  • Doing or being what is right or fair
  • Legally correct; having enough evidence
  • adverb
  • Almost; nearly
  • Exactly at the time of
  • Exactly (the same as, like)

amount

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  • noun
  • Quantity of something
  • verb
  • To add up to a certain figure

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special

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  • adjecitve
  • Being additional or extra
  • Different, better or greater than normal
  • noun
  • Heavily discounted sales item

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  • An animal that hunts and kills other animals
  • Person preying on the weak to gain advantage

danger

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  • The possibility of getting hurt, damaged, killed

those

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  • determiner
  • The people or things we are talking about
  • pronoun
  • The objects far from the speaker

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  • noun
  • Large body of salt water; a large sea

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  • noun
  • Building material made from gray powder, water
  • verb
  • To bind or hold together strongly
  • To make something more stable or stronger

through

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  • adjecitve
  • having finished using or doing something
  • adverb
  • From the beginning of something until the end
  • preposition
  • Over, in, across an entire thing or place
  • Allowing you to pass between, or to
  • By a particular way or process; by the use of

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  • Clear liquid that forms the seas, rivers and rain
  • Large area such as an ocean or sea
  • verb
  • (Of the eyes) to produce tears
  • (Mouth) to become wet at the thought of nice food
  • To pour liquids onto a plant to keep it alive

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  • noun
  • A trip to several places to perform a show
  • A journey to visit several places for pleasure
  • verb
  • To travel to several places to perform a show
  • To visit several places for pleasure

few

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  • pronoun
  • Not many, a small number

grow

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  • To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
  • To improve; to develop better skills over time
  • To develop and become bigger or taller over time

for

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  • Used to show the purpose, or need of something

face

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  • Side or outer surface of something
  • An expression using mouth, nose, eyes etc.
  • Front part of the head where eyes, mouth etc. are
  • Characteristics you show in public
  • verb
  • To cover a surface with something like paint
  • To deal with a problem or responsibilities
  • To look toward; point in a certain direction
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  • Just off the tourist mecca of Cancun lies the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.
  • It stretches all the way south to Honduras and is second in size only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
  • But like many reefs, it faces threats from pollution and warming ocean temperatures and overfishing.
  • Add to that the pressure of hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting the area's waters, and the reef's days could be numbered.
  • Jason DeCaries-Taylor is trying to help in a novel way, through art.
  • The sculptures are actually designed to become artificial reef units.
  • The cement structure that you see behind me is actually a special type of marine-grade cement that's engineered to attract corals.
  • So corals adhere to it, they grow, they make different formation.
  • That in turn encourages fish and other marine life.
  • His still ongoing project is sinking some 400 of these sculptures in nearly 30 feet of water.
  • And in just a few months, the statues already attract a wide variety of life.
  • Already there's I think over a thousand different fish living on them.
  • There's lobsters, there's big schools of angelfish, and there's a big coating of algae, which is one of the first things to settle.
  • Taylor says the colorful display indirectly helps the natural reefs.
  • This particular area of Mexico receives a colossal amount of visitors every year, I think over 750,000, and that puts a lot of pressure on the existing reefs.
  • So part of this project is actually to sort of discharge those people away from the natural reefs and bring them to an area of artificial reefs.
  • The layout is important.
  • Basically, Taylor envisions a big neighborhood for fish and other creatures.
  • The configuration attracts fish, so there's huge schools of fish which actually live above the sculptures.
  • And then if there's any sort of predators or any danger, then they drop below and sort of hide out in the feet area, which is kind of the idea around that positioning.
  • The museum is attracting a growing number of divers.
  • Visitors need to go by boat to reach this spot between Cancun and Isla Mujeres.
  • The area's dive tour providers are hoping the site both boosts business and helps maintain the health of the reefs.
  • This is the perfect balance where we're protecting the reef, we're bringing tourists into the natural area, we're providing art to make it beautiful, and all together we'll help.
  • The museum plans to continue adding sculptures as funding is available.
  • The main installation of 400 statues, Silent Evolution, won't really ever be finished since the marine life will keep adding touches for centuries.
  • Art and the beauty of the natural world, together may offer a means of helping preserve marine life.