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  • 91job*/*/*/ — [dʒɒb] noun 1) [C] work that you do regularly to earn money a part time/full time job[/ex] Andy got a holiday job at a factory in Bristol.[/ex] Emma finally found a job (= got a job after looking).[/ex] My son has been offered a job in… …

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  • 92Anzac Cove — /ænzæk ˈkoʊv/ (say anzak kohv) noun the cove on the western coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey where Australian and New Zealand troops landed in 1915 during World War I. Only 660 metres long, the small and narrow beach of Anzac Cove is… …

  • 93through road — /ˈθru roʊd/ (say throoh rohd) noun a road which is linked to other roads and which is not a dead end …

  • 94loke — ˈlōk noun ( s) Etymology: perhaps from (assumed) Middle English, from Old English loca enclosure, stronghold; akin to Old English loc lock on a door more at lock dialect England : a short narrow lane often coming to a dead end : a private road …

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  • 95brain death — noun death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops • Syn: ↑cerebral death • Hypernyms: ↑death * * * noun : final cessation of activity in the… …

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  • 96death — noun 1》 the action or fact of dying or being killed.     ↘an instance of a person or an animal dying. 2》 the state of being dead.     ↘(Death) the personification of the power that destroys life, often represented as a skeleton or an old man… …

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  • 97axletree — noun a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve • Hypernyms: ↑dead axle • Hyponyms: ↑axle bar • Part Holonyms: ↑carriage, ↑equipage, ↑rig, ↑cart, ↑ …

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  • 98stillbirth — noun The birth of a dead fetus. The delivery of an infant which is dead at birth. Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child. See Also: stillborn …

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  • 99zone — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ narrow, wide ▪ marginal, peripheral, transition, transitional, twilight ▪ a transition zone between tropical and arid vegetations …

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  • 100loss — noun 1) the loss of the documents Syn: mislaying, misplacement, forgetting Ant: recovery, finding 2) loss of earnings Syn: deprivation, disappearance, privation …

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