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6001 - 7000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 72 |
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| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| pulp | noun | The machine reduced the food to pulp. | soft, moist shapeless mass |
| purge | verb | We must purge the Party of traitors. | get rid of people |
| pyramid | noun | We saw the great pyramid in Egypt. | a solid 4-sided figure |
| quaint | adj. | She had a quaint way of expressing herself. | odd, old-fashioned |
| quarry | noun | The police lost the quarry in the crowd. | an object of pursuit |
| noun | The marble quarry made a good profit. | open pit to mine stone | |
| query | noun | The query looked into the problem of ownership | question, inquiry |
| quill | noun | In years past people wrote using an ink quill. | hollow stemlike shaft of a feather |
| quilt | noun | The quilt will keep us warm this winter. | a thick blanket with cotton batting inside |
| raccoon | noun | Raccoons will often raid garbage left outside. | carnivorous North American mammal |