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Canadian Olympic team won't join boycott of 2022 Beijing Winter games

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since

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US / sɪns /

UK / sɪns /

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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

for

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UK / fɔr,fə /

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  • preposition
  • Used to show the purpose, or need of something

nation

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UK / ˈneʃən /

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  • noun
  • Area or region controlled by a government and army

job

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UK / dʒɑ:b /

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  • noun
  • Something that must be done
  • Regular work at which you earn money

letter

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UK / ˈlɛtɚ /

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  • noun
  • One of the 26 parts of the English alphabet
  • Message you put in an envelope and send by post

chinese

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of China

news

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UK / nu:z /

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  • noun
  • Broadcast on radio or TV about recent events
  • Information about recent events

protest

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UK / ˈproʊtɛst /

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  • noun
  • Forceful argument against something
  • Objection to something
  • verb
  • To argue against something in a forceful way
  • To express a strong objection or dislike

torch

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UK / tɔrtʃ /

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  • noun
  • Light or flame to be carried in the hand
  • verb
  • To set fire to something

detention

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UK / dɪˈtɛnʃən /

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  • noun
  • Act of keeping someone in jail or similar

association

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  • noun
  • Organization of people with the same interest

cycle

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US / ˈsaɪkl /

UK / ˈsaɪkəl /

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  • noun
  • Series of regular and repeated actions
  • Bicycle, bike
  • verb
  • To go through a series of events repeatedly
  • To ride on a bicycle

those

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UK / ðoz /

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

report

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US / rɪ'pɔ:t /

UK / rɪˈpɔrt, ˈport /

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  • noun
  • Account of the necessary facts and information
  • The telling of news in the media
  • Official statement about something
  • verb
  • To submit a report or bill to the government
  • To write in a newspaper or speak on a news program
  • To state something officially
  • To officially present yourself to an authority
  • To describe something by telling it to others

glimmer

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  • noun
  • Dull, weak light
  • verb
  • To cast a dull, weak light

under

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US / ˈʌndə(r) /

UK / ˈʌndɚ /

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  • adjecitve
  • In the same place as another thing, but lower
  • adverb
  • In a lower quantity or price than expected
  • preposition
  • According to the terms of an agreement or law
  • Managed or controlled by the authority of
  • Being of a lesser quality or amount than expected
  • Influenced or affected by something or someone
  • Less or lower in age, amount, size or number

take

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  • noun
  • Filming of a single scene for TV or the movies
  • verb
  • To accept something that is offered
  • To use a method of traveling, e.g. a bus or train
  • To use a camera to make (a photo)
  • To pick up something and go away with it
  • To study a subject in school
  • To attempt to pass (an exam)
  • To require a certain amount of time, money, space

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

common

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  • adjecitve
  • Shared; Belonging to or used by everyone
  • Typical, normal; not unusual
  • noun
  • Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
  • Field near a village owned by the local community

lived

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  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town

committee

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  • noun
  • Group of people who do or decide something

heart

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UK / hɑrt /

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  • noun
  • A feeling of care for others; compassion
  • Courage, confidence, and emotional strength
  • Be cheerfully encouraging
  • Most essential, important, or central part
  • Referring to a promise or something important
  • State or feelings of affection or deep love
  • Core part of a vegetable, e.g. a lettuce
  • The part of the body that pumps blood
  • Place where emotions are believed to be felt
  • A shape that represents love

minority

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UK / məˈnɔrɪti, -ˈnɑr-, maɪ- /

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  • noun
  • Group that is smaller and different from the rest
  • Part that is less than half the whole; small part

they

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

paralympic

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a paralympics sports event

kowtow

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  • verb
  • Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner; try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

activist

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  • noun
  • A person who tries to change a government, society

minimize

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UK / ˈmɪnəˌmaɪz /

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  • verb
  • To make something seem small or less important

all

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

fear

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  • noun
  • Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
  • verb
  • To be afraid of or nervous about something

abuse

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  • noun
  • Improper/dishonest/excessive use of something
  • Insulting someone, e.g. by swearing at them
  • verb
  • To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
  • To use in an inappropriate or excessive way
  • To use something wrongly or dishonestly
  • To insult someone or swear at them

account

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  • noun
  • An advantage
  • Arrangement with a bank to keep your money for you
  • An invoice for things bought
  • Arrangement whereby you can use online services
  • A description, often written, of events; report

blind

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  • adjecitve
  • Unable to see; with eyes that cannot see
  • Lacking in judgment or awareness
  • Be unable to see the truth about a situation
  • noun
  • Window covering that you can pull up and down
  • verb
  • To cause someone to lose the ability to see
  • To be unable to see the truth about a situation

sochi

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  • proper noun
  • A port and resort in southwestern Russia, located in the western foothills of the Caucasus, on the B

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

china

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  • noun
  • A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the wo
  • other
  • High quality porcelain originally made only in China

human

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US / 'hju:mən /

UK / ˈhjumən /

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning or characteristic of people
  • noun
  • A person; a man, woman or child

least

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US / li:st /

UK / list /

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  • adverb
  • In the smallest or lowest way
  • noun
  • Something that is of the lowest or smallest degree

hong

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UK / /

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care

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US / keə(r) /

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  • noun
  • Treatment you receive for your health or safety
  • Something that a person worries about
  • verb
  • To feel interest, concern, or worry
  • To look after someone or something

officially

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US / əˈfɪʃəli /

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  • adverb
  • According to what is stated by an authority figure

that

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US / ðæt /

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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’

get

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  • verb
  • To become affected by illness or disease
  • To begin to feel or understand an emotion or idea
  • To send or bring someone or something home, etc.
  • To go somewhere to obtain something
  • To (cause to) do a particular thing
  • To obtain, receive or be given something
  • To currently have
  • To prepare for use
  • To understand something being said or read

what

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US / wɒt /

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  • pronoun
  • Thing or things that; the same kind as
  • Used to emphasize something you are about to say
  • adjecitve
  • Used to refer to a particular amount, or number
  • Used to place emphasis on a particular quality
  • adverb
  • To a certain degree
  • determiner
  • Question words used for asking for information
  • exclamation
  • Used to express excitement, shock, or surprise
  • Used to ask people to repeat something they said

prison

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  • noun
  • Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail

eye

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  • noun
  • The part of the body that you see with
  • The skill to see the good and bad parts of a thing
  • Hole at the end of a needle
  • verb
  • To watch or study something closely

include

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US / ɪnˈklu:d /

UK / ɪnˈklud /

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  • verb
  • To make someone, something part of a group

happen

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  • verb
  • To take place or occur

case

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  • noun
  • Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
  • Set of facts about a crime
  • Set of facts about an event
  • Example or instance of something
  • verb
  • To find out about a place, as in planning to steal

tell

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US / tel /

UK / tɛl /

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  • verb
  • To (strongly) advise a person to do something
  • To be able to guess
  • To say or communicate information to someone
  • To inform, but without speaking; indicate
  • To have a negative effect on someone
  • To order someone to do something; command
  • To recognize something based on certain signs
  • To report something to an authority
  • To explain something or teach someone something

right

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  • adjecitve
  • Correct or true
  • The south side of you looking at the rising sun
  • adverb
  • Exactly in a place or time
  • Being appropriate for a particular event
  • In a straight or direct manner
  • noun
  • Something you are legally or morally allowed to do
  • Ideal of what is just and good
  • Political view based on conservatism
  • verb
  • To fix something previously wrong or unjust
  • To make upright, as a boat that has turned over

winter

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  • adjecitve
  • (Food) planted in fall and gathered next year
  • noun
  • Time or season of idleness or decay
  • Coldest season of the year
  • verb
  • To spend the cold months at a certain place

people

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

michael

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even

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in influence, power, possibility etc.
  • Being divided equally or fairly
  • (Of teams/contest) with similar chances of success
  • Smooth, level, or regular
  • Can be divided by 2; ending in 2, 4, 6, 8, or 0
  • At a regular, equally steady manner
  • Remaining steady and unchanging
  • adverb
  • (When this is surprising) as well; too
  • (Used to compare two things/stress the difference)
  • verb
  • To make something level; to flatten
  • To make something equal

kong

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spotlight

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  • noun
  • Lamp that produces a strong beam of light
  • verb
  • To highlight or put attention on something

continue

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

use

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  • noun
  • Ability to employ something
  • Need to enable it to work
  • Permission to do something with something
  • Act of spending money
  • Operation of a machine for its function
  • verb
  • To have; to eat, drink, consume etc.
  • To need to operate or work
  • To operate a machine, e.g. a computer
  • To treat a person badly
  • To do something with, for a task or purpose

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

sure

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  • adjecitve
  • Having no doubts about something
  • Have confidence in your own words or actions
  • Firmly established or held; being firm or stable
  • Being correct or true
  • adverb
  • What you say to agree willingly

shame

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  • noun
  • Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
  • verb
  • To make someone feel ashamed

should

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  • other
  • Used to indicate what is proper or reasonable

global

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US / ˈgləʊbl /

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning, involving, affecting all of something
  • Of, affecting, or involving the entire world

moslem

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  • adjective
  • Relating to Muslims or their religion.
  • noun
  • A follower of the religion of Islam.

athlete

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US / ˈæθli:t /

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  • noun
  • Person trained to compete in sports

among

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  • preposition
  • In the center of several things

silence

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  • noun
  • State of being quiet and not talking for a time
  • When there is not sound or noise; complete quiet
  • Refusal to discuss or talk about an issue
  • verb
  • To stop the noise that something is making
  • To prevent someone from expressing thoughts

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

write

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  • verb
  • To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
  • To invent or create a computer program
  • To create a song or piece of music

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

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

outside

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  • adverb
  • Beyond the limits or edges of some place, thing
  • noun
  • Area around or near something, such as a building
  • preposition
  • Beyond the limits or edges of some place, thing

kind

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

stand

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  • noun
  • Effort to fight against something
  • Piece of furniture; device to hold or support
  • Place in a stadium where spectators watch
  • Table where things are sold at a fair or market
  • verb
  • To be a candidate in an election
  • To be able to accept someone, something; bear
  • To last for a long time
  • To be upright; not be sitting or lying down
  • To place something in a particular position; place
  • To be (as stated)
  • To still be valid
  • To have an opinion about something

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

open

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  • adjecitve
  • Available for use; accessible
  • Not being hidden; available for others to see
  • Being available for customers to enter or use
  • Allowing everyone to use or take part in
  • Not secret anymore
  • Not closed or shut
  • Willing to accept new ideas and thoughts
  • noun
  • Name for a tennis or golf competition
  • verb
  • To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
  • To start the activities or services of a business
  • To make a space or hole appear in something
  • To move or change so that it is no longer closed
  • To start something, e.g. a new business

answer

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UK / ˈænsɚ /

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  • noun
  • Reply to a question someone asks
  • Solution to a problem or test question
  • verb
  • To reply to a question someone asks
  • To solve a test question or a problem

dispute

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UK / dɪˈspjut /

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  • noun
  • Argument with someone about something
  • A question or doubt about something
  • verb
  • To argue with someone about something
  • To disagree about who owns or controls something
  • To question the truth or reality of something

message

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  • noun
  • Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
  • Piece of information that is told/given to someone
  • verb
  • To communicate using text

let

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  • verb
  • To allow someone to do something
  • Introducing a suggestion to do something together
  • To rent a house, etc. to others

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

countdown

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UK / ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn /

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  • noun
  • Counting backward to zero to show the time left

one

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UK / wʌn /

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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

year

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UK / jɪr /

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

the

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US / ðə /

UK / ðə /

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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

uighur

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UK / /

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  • other
  • A member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
  • The script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
  • The Turkic language spoken by approximately ,, Uighur in extreme northwestern China

back

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  • adjecitve
  • Farthest from the front e.g. in a classroom
  • adverb
  • Have returned to a place you were before
  • noun
  • The part of a chair that the upper body leans upon
  • Location at the rear of something
  • The reverse of side something
  • Area on the rear of your body
  • verb
  • To bet money on something
  • To go backwards in a car
  • To support and encourage someone or some cause

bully

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  • noun
  • a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
  • other
  • seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable)

critic

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  • noun
  • Person who judges (e.g. art) and gives opinions

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

and

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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

retaliation

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  • noun
  • Revenge for something harmful or wrong

olympic

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  • adjecitve
  • Of or relating to the Olympic Games

hope

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

think

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

two

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  • number
  • 2

obligation

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B2
  • noun
  • Duty to be done because of a law, rule or promise
  • other
  • Fact of being forced morally to do something

most

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  • adverb
  • Very; extremely
  • Greatest possible degree
  • pronoun
  • Nearly all of something

call

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  • noun
  • A order or request for action
  • The sound an animal makes, often when in danger
  • A correct prediction, e.g. a decision in a game
  • A short visit to a place or person
  • A decision by a referee or umpire in a game
  • verb
  • To make a request or order for action
  • (Animal) to make sounds to warn of danger
  • To announce the date of an election
  • To make a judgment about something
  • To give someone or something a name
  • To guess in advance the result or outcome
  • To visit a place or person for a short time
  • To phone someone
  • To speak, announce or shout in a loud voice

come

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  • verb
  • To arrive at a place
  • (Of mail) to be delivered
  • To move toward someone; go with someone
  • To reach a certain point or state

until

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  • conjunction
  • Up to; to a time when something happens
  • preposition
  • Before (a specific time)

game

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  • noun
  • Activity with rules that people play to have fun
  • Birds and animals people hunt to kill and eat
  • Match between two teams

crystal

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  • noun
  • A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical
  • Rock with regularly repeating internal structure
  • Person's name

moscow

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  • proper noun
  • The capital of Russia, located at the center of European Russia, on the Moskva River; population 10,
  • A city in northwestern Idaho, home to the University of Idaho; population 22,798 (est. 2008).

somebody

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US / 'sʌmbədɪ /

UK / ˈsʌmˌbɑdi, -ˌbʌdi, -bədi /

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  • noun
  • Important well-respected person
  • pronoun
  • Person who is not known or named

give

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US / ɡɪv /

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  • noun
  • Degree of flexibility in something, a material
  • verb
  • To hand over or present something to someone
  • To cause someone to have or experience something

not

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

our

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  • determiner
  • Belonging to us

canadian

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US / kəˈneɪdiən /

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of Canada
  • noun
  • Person from Canada

yet

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US / jet /

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  • adverb
  • At a later time (used after ‘not’)
  • (Used to emphasize that thing is, will be greater)
  • Eventually; at a future time
  • Until now; up to the present
  • conjunction
  • Adding to what has been said, often as a contrast

boycott

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B2
  • other
  • To not buy/use something as a protest
  • verb
  • To not buy a product for moral reasons

sense

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UK / sɛns /

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  • noun
  • Certain mental feeling or emotion
  • Normal or clear state of mind
  • Meaning of a particular word, phrase or text
  • verb
  • To perceive using sight, sound, taste touch etc.
  • To recognize the presence of something

but

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  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

want

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  • noun
  • Something you desire or wish for
  • State or condition of poverty
  • verb
  • To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing

camp

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  • noun
  • A (military) base
  • Exaggerated behavior meant to be funny
  • Place where people live for a short time in tents
  • verb
  • To live temporarily, e.g. in a tent or a vehicle

demonstrate

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US / 'demənstreɪt /

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  • verb
  • To display a feeling or ability openly
  • To protest about something often as a group
  • To prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence
  • To show how something works (e.g. product)

against

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US / əˈgenst /

UK / əˈɡenst /

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  • preposition
  • In physical contact with, as for support; next to
  • In opposition to; disagreeing with

support

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US / səˈpɔ:t /

UK / səˈpɔrt, -ˈport /

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  • noun
  • Assistance or advice given to someone
  • Evidence that helps prove something is true
  • A thing to hold up or prevent from falling down
  • verb
  • To give assistance or advice to someone
  • To help prove or show that something is true
  • To hold up or prevent from falling down

unveil

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US / ˌʌnˈveɪl /

UK / ʌnˈvel /

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  • verb
  • To remove something's outer covering

record

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  • noun
  • Highest or most extreme level achieved
  • Round plastic disc on which music has been stored
  • History of a person's past actions or achievements
  • verb
  • To indicate a temperature, speed, etc.; register
  • To write down or say what happened
  • To put music, sounds onto a device to store it

same

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in quality and amount
  • Identical; not different
  • Not changing; constant

understand

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  • verb
  • To know the meaning of language, what someone says

clear

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  • adjecitve
  • Empty; without anything in it or on it
  • Being certain and without doubt
  • Being without any streaks, spots, or cracks
  • Easy to understand; well-explained; obvious
  • adverb
  • Completely; entirely; through the whole of
  • Away from; free from
  • verb
  • To recover from or remove a problem
  • To get rid of the entire contents of
  • To give permission for something to happen
  • To make a place or surface empty by removing
  • To prove that someone is not guilty or to blame

canada

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US / 'kænədə /

UK / ˈkænədə /

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  • proper noun
  • A country in northern North America, the second largest country in the world; population 35,900,000

gold

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US / gəʊld /

UK / goʊld /

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  • noun
  • Soft yellow metal that is very valuable
  • Person's name
  • adjecitve
  • Dark yellow color often seen in sunsets

protect

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US / prə'tekt /

UK / prəˈtɛkt /

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  • verb
  • To defend someone or something from harm or danger

behind

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US / bɪˈhaɪnd /

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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

pawn

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US / pɔ:n /

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  • noun
  • Person used to advance the purposes of another

with

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  • preposition
  • As an employee of a certain company
  • Against something or someone
  • By using something as a means
  • Due to; because of
  • Including
  • Possessing as a feature
  • Related to
  • (Of the manner/attitude by which you do something)
  • Used to express that people or things are together

his

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US / hɪz /

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  • pronoun
  • Something belonging to a male person

group

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US / ɡru:p /

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  • noun
  • Two or more musicians who play music together
  • Number of people or things gathered together
  • verb
  • To combine or collect objects or people together

collective

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US / kəˈlektɪv /

UK / kəˈlɛktɪv /

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  • adjecitve
  • Formed by working together as a group
  • noun
  • Business owned or controlled by its workers

have

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US / həv /

UK / hæv /

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  • verb
  • To drink, smoke, eat or use something
  • To experience the effects of something
  • To organize an event, or join in an activity
  • To own, possess, or hold something
  • To cause to happen or produce a particular effect

claw

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UK / klɔ /

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  • noun
  • Long, sharp, and usually curved nail of an animal
  • verb
  • To dig or pull with the nails or fingers

recently

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US / ˈri:sntli /

UK / 'risṇtlɪ /

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  • adverb
  • Just a while ago; not long ago

break

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US / breɪk /

UK / brek /

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  • noun
  • Time you stop an activity before continuing
  • End of a relationship
  • An escape from a place such as a jail
  • (Lucky) advantage or benefit from something
  • Find a solution or answer to a problem or crime
  • Change in the weather
  • verb
  • To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
  • To form a crack in something
  • To burst or become damaged
  • To end a relationship
  • To escape from a place such as a jail
  • To train a wild animal e.g. a horse
  • To separate into pieces by force, or by dropping
  • To act against a law, rule, or promise
  • To become known suddenly, as in the news
  • To not do what you promised e.g. not keep promises
  • To solve a crime, or answer a problem
  • To stop functioning properly
  • To suddenly start, open or commence
  • To change in pitch suddenly, as in a voice
  • To fall on the shore, as in waves
  • To begin or change suddenly; the dawn or weather
  • To defeat by causing the person to lose their will

document

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  • noun
  • Official (printed) record that gives information
  • verb
  • To support an opinion with recorded evidence

mark

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  • noun
  • Person's name
  • A dirty spot or line on something
  • Grade or score given for homework
  • Line or symbol made when writing
  • Particular point on a scale of measurement
  • Grade, such as a student receives in school
  • Stain or spot on something
  • Sign or symbol of a quality of feeling
  • Written sign or symbol
  • verb
  • To put a dirty spot or line on something
  • To give a grade for homework
  • To indicate something with a sign or symbol
  • To make or leave a visible sign of (path, etc.)
  • (Animals) to go to the toilet to show your area
  • To write or draw a line on something

freedom

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US / 'fri:dəm /

UK / ˈfridəm /

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  • noun
  • State of being free, not being controlled

beijing

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  • proper noun
  • The capital of China, in the northeast of the country; population 8,580,400 (est. 2006). Beijing bec

tonight

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US / təˈnaɪt /

UK / təˈnaɪt /

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  • adverb
  • Night following this day
  • noun
  • This evening; the night of today
  • Subtitles section
  • The countdown to Beijing 2022 is officially on.
  • Today marks one year to go until the Winter Games in China, and officials unveiled the designs for the Olympic and Paralympic torches.
  • But human rights groups are taking a stand tonight, calling for a boycott to the Games because of China's abuses against ethnic minorities and the detention of two Canadians.
  • Crystal Gu Man-Singh reports.
  • Beijing!
  • With the spotlight on China, activists fear the glimmer of gold will have people turning a blind eye to the country's human rights record.
  • I was in the same protest, or at least called for a boycott, in 2008.
  • We all kind of kowtow to what China wants us to do.
  • And I think somebody has to break that cycle of retaliation and bullying.
  • China recently clawed back freedoms for people in Hong Kong, freedoms protected under international obligations.
  • There are documented cases with first-hand accounts of Uighur Muslims being abused, even raped in Chinese camps, and the continued detention of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
  • I think our collective heart breaks for what's happening to them.
  • And yet, I think common sense should tell most of us that we're not going to embarrass the Chinese.
  • We're not going to shame them into letting those two out of prison.
  • David Shoemaker says his job is to support Canada's athletes, and he demonstrated that in an open letter, writing, In no way are we at the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympics Committee trying to minimize what is happening in China.
  • But a boycott is not the answer.
  • Canada didn't go to the Moscow Games in 1980, and there have been many calls for boycotts since, including the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, and the 2008 Games in Beijing.
  • When it comes to these Games, the Association for Democracy in China says Canada shouldn't go.
  • At least giving the people in China some hope that people care outside.
  • Shoemaker lived in China and says he gets it, but Canada is going.
  • We did want to make sure that the athletes understood, no, no, we're behind you.
  • We don't think you should be used as pawns in a dispute among nations.
  • A clear message for athletes, but one that won't silence critics of the Games.
  • Crystal Gemansin, Global News, London.