5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 215
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Word
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Type
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Used in a Sentence
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Synonym
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fourth
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adj.
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He is the fourth person to apply.
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ordinal 4
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fowl
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noun
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We ate fowl for dinner.
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edible bird
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fox
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noun
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The fox ate our chickens.
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type of animal
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fraction
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noun
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We paid only a fraction of its worth.
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portion
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noun
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There was only a small fraction left.
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scrap
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fragile
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adj.
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The vase was too fragile to ship.
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breakable
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fragment
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noun
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There is a fragment of cloth left.
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scrap
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frail
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adj.
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She was a frail old lady.
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weak
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frame
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noun
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The picture was put in a frame.
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enclosure
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verb
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We will frame our reply quickly.
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compose
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framework
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noun
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It is the framework of our policy.
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basis
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France
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noun
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The Eiffel tower is in France.
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name of nation
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frank
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adj.
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We gave him our frank opinion.
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candid
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