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Amber Ruffin on the Broadway Revival of The Wiz and Marrying Fred Armisen

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UK / bæk /

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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

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

guy

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  • noun
  • Man; boy; any person

from

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US / frəm /

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

hot

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US / hɒt /

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  • adjecitve
  • Angry or excited
  • Being very good at something
  • Having a high temperature
  • Popular and causing a great deal of excitement
  • Attractive in a sexually exciting way
  • (Of food) very spicy
  • Stolen; dangerous to buy or trade in

share

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US / ʃeə(r) /

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  • noun
  • Part-ownership in a property, business or company
  • Part of a company you own, shown by a certificate
  • verb
  • To divide something between two or more people
  • To allow others to use your things equally
  • To give information, etc. to someone

out

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A1
  • 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

amber

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  • noun
  • Hard, clear yellow dried resin from trees
  • Person's name

another

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  • adjecitve
  • One more, but not this
  • determiner
  • One more added
  • pronoun
  • One more (thing)

congrat

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  • exclamation
  • What you say when you want someone's attention

react

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  • verb
  • To change when mixing with other chemicals
  • To behave or make a change in a particular way

real

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  • adjecitve
  • Actually existing or happening, not imagined
  • Being important or special

podcast

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  • noun
  • A digital recording (e.g. radio show) for download

josh

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US / dʒɒʃ /

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  • noun
  • Good-natured banter.
  • transitive verb
  • Tease (someone) in a playful way.

keep

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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

remount

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  • other
  • Mount again

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  • noun
  • A talentless, unattractive, or boorish person.

something

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  • adverb
  • In some degree or measure
  • noun
  • a person or thing of some value or consequence
  • pronoun
  • Thing that is not yet known or named
  • Approximately

version

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  • noun
  • Different way that someone interprets something
  • New or different form of something
  • An updated form of some software

comedy

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  • noun
  • Amusing play, film, usually with a happy ending

put

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A1
  • 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

robin

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  • noun
  • Person's name
  • Bird with a red or orange chest and a grayish back

ten

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  • number
  • 10

two

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  • number
  • 2

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

marry

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  • verb
  • To become the husband or wife of someone
  • To perform a marriage ceremony

suit

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  • noun
  • Set of clothes including jacket and pants or skirt
  • Law case involving a claim of some kind
  • Set of playing cards such as hearts or diamonds
  • verb
  • To be appropriate for a given situation
  • (Of clothes) to look good on someone

think

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

picture

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  • noun
  • General situation or state of being
  • Mental image of what something is or looks like
  • Movie; film
  • Painting, drawing or photograph on paper or screen
  • verb
  • To understand or imagine something
  • To imagine someone or something in an image

where

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

wonderful

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  • adjecitve
  • Producing feelings of enjoyment or delight

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

ever

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

lesbian

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  • noun
  • Homosexual woman

wedding

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  • noun
  • A marriage of two people
  • verb
  • To combine and join two things together as one

enthusiastic

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  • adjecitve
  • Excited and interested in something

exactly

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  • adverb
  • No more and no less than; precisely

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

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  • noun
  • An amount of hard work
  • (Of work, job) hard; needing effort
  • Liquid from your skin when you are hot or nervous
  • verb
  • To do an amount of hard work
  • To be worried or anxious about something
  • To produce drops of water from your skin when hot

here

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  • adverb
  • In this place; at this location, position or time

new

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  • adjecitve
  • Not old, recently born, built or made
  • Being or doing something for the first time
  • Not felt, seen or known previously
  • Having been recently bought or obtained

rehearse

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  • verb
  • To practice e.g. play, speech before a performance

stupid

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  • adjecitve
  • Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily

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

actually

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

walk

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  • noun
  • Journey on foot done for pleasure or exercise
  • verb
  • To move with your legs at a slowish pace

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

dislike

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US / dɪs'laɪk /

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  • verb
  • To not like something

listen

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  • verb
  • To carefully consider what someone is saying

singer

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  • noun
  • Person who sings, often as a profession

perfectly

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  • adverb
  • In a faultless manner; without mistakes

setup

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  • noun
  • Way something is organized or arranged

weird

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  • adjecitve
  • Odd or unusual; surprising; strange

true

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  • adjecitve
  • Agreeing with the facts; not false; real or actual

after

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  • adverb
  • Later than another time, or behind something
  • conjunction
  • Following something before
  • preposition
  • When an event happened or time has passed

lady

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  • noun
  • Another way of saying 'woman'
  • Official title of a woman with high social rank

seth

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  • other
  • (Old Testament) Third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel

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

ago

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  • adverb
  • At a specified length of time in the past

heart

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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

their

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US / ðɛː /

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  • determiner
  • Belonging to them

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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

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  • adverb
  • Way to say you agree or will do something

they

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

very

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a large degree or amount
  • adverb
  • A lot; much; many
  • Used to stress or emphasize a noun

broadway

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  • noun
  • A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters

audience

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  • noun
  • Group of people attending a play, movie etc.

eighteen

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  • number
  • 18

frickin

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  • adjecitve
  • Activity completed in order to make money
  • noun
  • The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
  • Everything created by an author, artist, musician
  • Activity you do in order to make money
  • Place of employment
  • Final product or result of a some labor or effort
  • verb
  • To bring into a specific state of success
  • To be functioning properly, e.g. a car
  • To do your job in your company or workplace
  • To make an effort to do something
  • To operate a machine or device

bit

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  • noun
  • Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
  • Small piece of something
  • verb
  • (E.g. of fish) to take bait and be caught

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  • noun
  • Person's beauty or physical attractiveness
  • Particular style of dress, clothes, or appearance
  • The way someone, something appears to be
  • Act of searching for or examining something
  • verb
  • To appear to be; seem

nice

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  • adjecitve
  • Being attractive or of high quality or value
  • Good or enjoyable
  • Being kind or friendly

red

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  • adjecitve
  • Being the color of blood

rewrite

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  • verb
  • To write again to improve, or correct errors

thank

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  • verb
  • To tell someone you are grateful to them

bring

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

jenny

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  • noun
  • A female donkey or ass.
  • short for spinning jenny

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

all

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

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  • noun
  • 4th month of the year
  • Person's name

who

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  • pronoun
  • Which person
  • Used to introduce information about people

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  • adverb
  • In the area of a theater behind the stage

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  • noun
  • Means of reaching a place, often a road or path
  • Request of someone with a specific goal in mind
  • Specific way to handle a project, task, problem
  • verb
  • To get close to reaching something or somewhere
  • To request someone to do something specific

show

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  • noun
  • False display of love, emotion or action
  • An event for displaying or promoting goods
  • Play, opera or theater production
  • Presentation that is broadcast on TV or radio
  • verb
  • To be easily seen or displayed
  • To display your emotions or feelings
  • To let someone see something; display
  • To explain or teach how something is done
  • To lead someone somewhere; point them to something
  • To prove something to be true, correct
  • To reveal or allow something to be seen

pretty

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  • adjecitve
  • Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
  • adverb
  • Very; to a great degree

also

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  • adverb
  • In addition; too; in a similar way

fine

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  • adjecitve
  • Good, acceptable or satisfactory
  • Of high quality; made with great skill
  • In a careful or exact manner; into small pieces
  • Being of high quality
  • Good; okay; no problem
  • (Of weather) good; not raining
  • noun
  • Money you have to pay because you broke a rule
  • verb
  • To pay money because you broke a law

five

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  • number
  • 5

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

how

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  • adjecitve
  • To what degree? in what amount?
  • adverb
  • (Used to explain the way to do something)
  • exclamation
  • For what purpose or reason?
  • (Used to ask someone or something's condition)

simply

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US / ˈsɪmpli /

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  • adverb
  • In an easy or clear manner

year

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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

you

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

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  • noun
  • Dropping, attacking or throwing of bombs
  • verb
  • To attack with explosives
  • To fail or be completely unsuccessful

favourite

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  • adjecitve
  • Best liked or most enjoyed
  • noun
  • A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most

revival

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  • noun
  • Process of becoming active, strong or alive again
  • New revised version of a play or movie

tony

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  • adjective
  • Fashionable among wealthy or stylish people.
  • noun
  • Any of a number of awards given annually in the US for outstanding achievement in the theater in var

chicken

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  • adjecitve
  • Acting like a coward
  • noun
  • A bird raised for its eggs and meat
  • Someone who is too afraid to do something

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

happy

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  • adjecitve
  • Feeling pleasure or joy; glad

play

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  • noun
  • Loose, free movement between two objects
  • Single action in a sports game
  • Performance in which people act in a theater
  • verb
  • To act as a character in a movie, or on stage
  • To perform music on an instrument
  • To use a device, e.g. a video game
  • To do something for enjoyment and fun
  • To do or perform a game or sport

this

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US / ðɪs /

UK / ðɪs /

A1
  • 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

adapt

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US / ə'dæpt /

UK / əˈdæpt /

B1
  • verb
  • To change something for a different function
  • To change something to fit or suit a new purpose

bad

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US / bæd /

UK / bæd /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Not good; wrong
  • Lacking in good morals; evil
  • No longer fresh; spoiled

able

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US / 'eɪbl /

UK / ˈebəl /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Skilled; good at something
  • Having the ability to do something

rehearsal

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US / rɪˈhɜ:sl /

UK / rɪˈhɜ:rsl /

B1
  • noun
  • Practicing e.g. play, speech before a performance

three

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US / θri: /

UK / θri /

A1
  • number
  • Number 3

undersell

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US / ˌʌndəˈsel /

UK / ˌʌndərˈsel /

C1
  • verb
  • To sell cheaper than your competition

welcome

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US / 'welkəm /

UK / ˈwɛlkəm /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Being what was wanted or needed
  • noun
  • Friendly greeting to someone who has arrived
  • verb
  • To greet someone who has just arrived
  • To accept or receive something happily and gladly

make

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US / meɪk /

UK / mek /

A1
  • 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

steal

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US / sti:l /

UK / stil /

A1
  • noun
  • A bargain; something bought very cheaply
  • Act of taking the ball or a base from another
  • verb
  • To move quietly or secretly to or from a place
  • To secretly take something that belongs to another

big

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US / bɪɡ /

UK / bɪɡ /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Popular
  • Serious
  • Large

let

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US / let /

UK / lɛt /

A1
  • verb
  • To allow someone to do something
  • Introducing a suggestion to do something together
  • To rent a house, etc. to others

might

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US / maɪt /

UK / maɪt /

A1
  • other
  • Used to politely request an action
  • Used to express that something could happen
  • Power, strength, force or influence

the

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US / ðə /

UK / ðə /

A1
  • 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

into

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US / 'ɪntə /

UK / ˈɪntu /

A1
  • preposition
  • Moving or going inside something
  • In the same direction as; in the direction of
  • So as to become; taking the state of

love

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US / lʌv /

UK / lʌv /

A1
  • noun
  • Person's name
  • A very strong feeling of affection
  • The person you care very deeply about
  • Strong, deep emotional and sexual attraction
  • verb
  • To care for and like someone very strongly, deeply
  • To like doing very much; enjoy greatly
  • To feel a strong emotional and romantic attraction

one

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US / wʌn /

UK / wʌn /

A1
  • 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

open

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US / 'əʊpən /

UK / ˈopən /

A1
  • 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

sister

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US / ðə /

UK / ðə /

A1
  • noun
  • Female you share a parent with
  • Full-time female member of a (Christian) religion

other

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US / 'ʌðə(r) /

UK / ˈʌðər /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • A thing different from that mentioned
  • determiner
  • (Something) else; not the first (one)
  • pronoun
  • Being the one and only thing of that category

than

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US / ðən /

UK / ðən /

A1
  • conjunction
  • Used to compare two things that are not equal

funny

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US / ˈfʌni /

UK / ˈfʌni /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Causing laughter; amusing
  • Being different, odd or strange

man

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US / mæn /

UK / mæn /

A1
  • noun
  • Humans in general, including male and female
  • An adult male human being
  • Male who acts in a masculine way; not like a woman
  • verb
  • To control or operate (a machine); be in charge of
  • To operate a machine (a boat, etc.)

surprised

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US / səˈpraɪzd /

UK / sərˈpraɪzd /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Feeling a shock when something unexpected happens
  • verb
  • To do something that another person didn't expect

place

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US / pleɪs /

UK / ples /

A1
  • noun
  • Particular location, area or region
  • verb
  • To put someone in a particular type of situation
  • To put something in a certain location or position

about

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US / ə'baʊt /

UK / əˈbaʊt /

A1
  • adverb
  • To be ready to; going to
  • Nearly; approximately; roughly
  • Near; next to; close to
  • In every direction; in the area of
  • preposition
  • Concerning or of (a topic)

even

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US / 'i:vn /

UK / ˈivən /

A1
  • 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

different

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US / ˈdɪfrənt /

UK / ˈdɪfrənt /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Not of the same kind; unlike other things

like

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US / laɪk /

UK / laɪk /

A1
  • 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

people

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US / 'pi:pl /

UK / ˈpipəl /

A1
  • noun
  • Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • Men, Women, Children

sit

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US / sɪt /

UK / sɪt /

A1
  • verb
  • To take an exam
  • To be in a resting position on a chair
  • To provide seating for people
  • To remain in a still position while being painted

second

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US / 'sekənd /

UK / ˈsɛkənd /

A1
  • 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

that

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US / ðæt /

UK / ðæt, ðət /

A1
  • 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’

storey

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US / 'stɔ:rɪ /

UK / ˈstɔri, ˈstori /

B1
  • noun
  • One of many floors or levels in a building

what

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US / wɒt /

UK / hwɑt, hwʌt, wɔt, wʌt,hwət, wət /

A1
  • 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

during

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US / ˈdjʊərɪŋ /

UK / ˈdʊrɪŋ, ˈdjʊr- /

A1
  • preposition
  • At some point in the course of an event or thing

quiet

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US / 'kwaɪət /

UK / ˈkwaɪɪt /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Hidden, or done in a private way
  • Not loud; making very little sound
  • verb
  • To cause to become calmer or less loud

then

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US / ðen /

UK / ðɛn /

A1
  • 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

enough

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US / ɪˈnʌf /

UK / ɪˈnʌf /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Sufficient to answer the need
  • adverb
  • To a satisfactory degree
  • pronoun
  • Equal to what is needed; as much as required
  • Adequate number or amount

great

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US / ɡreɪt /

UK / ɡret /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Very large in size
  • Very important
  • Very good; fantastic; wonderful
  • adverb
  • Very good; better than before
  • noun
  • Successful and well-admired person

mean

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US / mi:n /

UK / min /

A1
  • 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

sing

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US / sɪŋ /

UK / sɪŋ /

A1
  • verb
  • To make musical sounds with your voice

bomb

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US / bɒm /

UK / bɑm /

B1
  • noun
  • An explosive device
  • verb
  • To attack with explosives
  • To fail or be completely unsuccessful

cute

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US / kju:t /

UK / kjut /

B2
  • adjecitve
  • Attractive in a pretty or endearing way

city

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US / 'sɪtɪ /

UK / ˈsɪti /

A1
  • noun
  • Area with many buildings, roads and people

each

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US / i:tʃ /

UK / itʃ /

A1
  • determiner
  • Every one of two or more things
  • pronoun
  • Per one person or thing

nominate

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US / 'nɒmɪneɪt /

UK / ˈnɑməˌnet /

B2
  • verb
  • To choose someone to fill a certain position

yeah

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US / jeə /

UK / ˈjɛə, ˈjæə, jɛ- /

A1
  • exclamation
  • Another way of saying 'yes'

first

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US / fɜ:st /

UK / fɚst /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • 1st; Coming before all others in time or place
  • noun
  • Something that has not happened before
  • Position of the winner of a competition

exciting

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US / ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ /

UK / ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Creating interest, happiness or pleasurable fear
  • verb
  • To cause a reaction; make active
  • To make someone feel happy, interested or eager

hard

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US / hɑ:d /

UK / hɑː(r)d /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Difficult to do; difficult to understand
  • (Of facts) not able to be misunderstood; clear
  • (Of alcohol) strong
  • Involving or requiring lots of work, effort, care
  • Being full of pain, trouble, and problems
  • Strong
  • (Of edge) clear; sharp
  • Difficult to bend, break or cut; solid
  • adverb
  • With lots of force, power, or impact

get

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US / ɡet /

UK / ɡɛt /

A1
  • 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

spotlight

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US / ˈspɒtlaɪt /

UK / ˈspɑ:tlaɪt /

C1
  • noun
  • Lamp that produces a strong beam of light
  • verb
  • To highlight or put attention on something

tiara

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US / tiˈɑ:rə /

UK / tiˈærə, -ˈɛrə, -ˈɑrə /

C2
  • noun
  • Woman's jeweled headdress worn on formal occasions

fun

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US / fʌn /

UK / fʌn /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Amusing and enjoyable
  • noun
  • Enjoyable or amusing quality or feeling

dynamic

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US / daɪˈnæmɪk /

UK / daiˈnæmik /

B1
  • adjecitve
  • Always active or energetic; getting things done

jump

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US / dʒʌmp /

UK / dʒʌmp /

A1
  • noun
  • Large sudden increase
  • An act of springing into the air
  • Bar or other thing that is jumped over
  • A sudden movement due to surprise
  • verb
  • To attack someone suddenly
  • To push your body into the air with your legs
  • To suddenly decide to do something
  • To make a sudden movement due to surprise

makeup

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US / 'meɪkʌp /

UK / ˈmekˌʌp /

B2
  • noun
  • Substance put on the face to make you look pretty

right

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US / raɪt /

UK / raɪt /

A1
  • 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

she

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US / ʃɪ /

UK / ʃi /

A1
  • pronoun
  • Female person or animal mentioned before
  • (Refers to female person mentioned before)

guest

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US / ɡest /

UK / ɡɛst /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Referring to people visiting or staying at a place
  • noun
  • Person invited to visit or stay in someone's home
  • Paying customer at a hotel or restaurant

interesting

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US / ˈɪntrəstɪŋ /

UK / ˈɪntrɪstɪŋ, -tərɪstɪŋ, -təˌrɛstɪŋ /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Taking your attention; making you want to know
  • verb
  • To make someone want to know about something
  • To persuade to do, become involved with something

nothing

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US / 'nʌθɪŋ /

UK / ˈnʌθɪŋ /

A1
  • noun
  • Item of little or no value, importance, interest
  • Number or value of zero
  • pronoun
  • Not anything, not a single thing

tell

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US / tel /

UK / tɛl /

A1
  • 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

york

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US / jɔ:k /

UK / jɔrk /

A1
  • proper noun
  • A city in northern England, on the Ouse River; population 136,900 (est. 2009).
  • A commercial and industrial city in southeastern Pennsylvania; population 40,097 (est. 2008).
  • The southwestern tip of Hayes Peninsula, on Baffin Bay in Greenland. It served as a base for US expl

friend

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US / frend /

UK / frɛnd /

A1
  • noun
  • Person who you like and enjoy being with

comedian

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US / kəˈmi:diən /

UK / kəˈmidiən /

A2
  • noun
  • An entertainer whose job is to make people laugh

host

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US / həʊst /

UK / host /

A2
  • noun
  • Mass; a great number
  • Person who entertains guests
  • Plant or animal on or in which parasites live
  • Presenter on a television or radio program
  • verb
  • To be the sponsor of an event, e.g. the Olympics
  • To lead or start a party, program, or other event
  • To lead a TV or radio show as the announcer

now

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US / naʊ /

UK / naʊ /

A1
  • adverb
  • At the present time or moment
  • Right away or in the next possible moment
  • Used to refer to something that just happened
  • Time between the present and a moment in the past
  • conjunction
  • Resulting from or because of something

perform

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US / pə'fɔ:m /

UK / pɚˈfɔrm /

A1
  • verb
  • To carry out an action well or successfully
  • To entertain an audience by dancing, singing etc.

planet

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US / 'plænɪt /

UK / ˈplænɪt /

A2
  • noun
  • One of the bodies that orbit the sun

singe

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US / sɪndʒ /

UK / sɪndʒ /

C2
  • verb
  • To burn lightly, often to remove hair

scorsese

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ally

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US / 'ælaɪ /

UK / 'ælaɪ /

B1
  • noun
  • Someone who supports, helps, or defends you
  • verb
  • To join a group to offer or receive support

nope

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US / nəʊp /

UK / noʊp /

B2
  • noun
  • A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'

smug

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US / smʌg /

UK / smʌɡ /

B2
  • adjecitve
  • Feeling too pleased about something you have done

friendship

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US / ˈfrendʃɪp /

UK / ˈfrɛndˌʃɪp /

B1
  • noun
  • Feeling of liking someone; good relationship

incredibly

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US / ɪnˈkredəbli /

UK / ɪnˈkrɛdəblɪ /

A2
  • adverb
  • To a great degree; very; amazingly

not

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US / nɒt /

UK / nɑt /

A1
  • adverb
  • Word indicating the negative
  • (Used to form the negative of verbs)

radio

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US / ˈreɪdiəʊ /

UK / ˈreɪdioʊ /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the broadcasting of sound
  • noun
  • System of sending/receiving signals through air
  • Device to listen to broadcast programs, messages
  • verb
  • To broadcast a message to be heard by radio

our

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US / 'aʊə(r) /

UK / aʊr /

A1
  • determiner
  • Belonging to us

whole

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US / həul /

UK / hol /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Complete or full; all of
  • Being in a good condition
  • noun
  • Complete amount or sum; total

award

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US / ə'wɔ:d /

UK / əˈwɔrd /

A2
  • noun
  • Prize given to you because you did something well
  • verb
  • To give a prize for doing something well

please

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US / pli:z /

UK / pliz /

A1
  • adverb
  • Used when you politely ask people for things
  • verb
  • To entertain someone, by dancing, singing etc.
  • To make someone happy by doing something

really

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US / ˈri:əli /

UK / ˈriəˌli, ˈrili /

A1
  • adverb
  • Used to stress something that is said; definitely
  • In a true or accurate manner
  • Very

would

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US / wʊd /

UK / wʊd /

A1
  • other
  • Used to indicate something imagined
  • Used to ask or request something politely
  • Verb used to indicate possibility, request etc.
  • Used to indicate a preference
  • Used to indicate a reaction
  • Indicates something that occurred repeatedly
  • Used to indicate willingness or ability to do

but

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US / bət /

UK / bʌt,bət /

A1
  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

good

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US / ɡʊd /

UK / ɡʊd /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Proper, appropriate or right
  • (Of an amount) enough; plenty
  • Excellent; high quality
  • Acting well or properly; of moral character
  • In a positive or happy emotional state
  • noun
  • Advantage or benefit

vow

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US / vaʊ /

UK / vaʊ /

B2
  • noun
  • Very serious promise
  • verb
  • To make a serious, often a religious, promise

zero

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US / ˈzɪərəʊ /

UK / ˈzɪroʊ /

A1
  • noun
  • Temperature when water turns to ice
  • number
  • Number 0
  • verb
  • To set a scale or other device to show 0

surprise

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US / səˈpraɪz /

UK / sərˈpraɪz /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • That surprises you; not expected
  • noun
  • Something unexpected that slightly shocks you
  • verb
  • To do something that another person didn't expect

brother

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US / ˈbrʌðə(r) /

UK / ˈbrʌðɚ /

A1
  • noun
  • A boy or man who shares a parent with you

breathe

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US / bri:ð /

UK / brið /

A2
  • verb
  • To move air into and out of your lungs
  • To say something very softly
  • To stop moving so one can rest

can

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US / kæn /

UK / kən,kæn /

A1
  • noun
  • A metal container for storing food
  • other
  • Able to; have the skill to; have the time to
  • verb
  • To have permission to
  • To be possible to do
  • To preserve food by sealing it in a metal container

announcement

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US / əˈnaʊnsmənt /

UK / əˈnaʊnsmənt /

A2
  • noun
  • Act of informing people about something publicly

book

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US / bʊk /

UK / bʊk /

A1
  • noun
  • Thing made of pages with writing on that you read
  • verb
  • (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
  • To reserve (hotel room, etc.) in advance
  • To produce a red or yellow card to a soccer player

expect

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US / ɪk'spekt /

UK / ɪkˈspɛkt /

A1
  • verb
  • To believe something is probably going to happen

fiftieth

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US / 'fɪftɪəθ /

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  • Book, movie etc. that is a total sales failure
  • Sound of something large hitting water
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  • To fall heavily, usually in a relaxed manner
  • To move loosely and without precision
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  • Person's name
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  • Screen of information on an online service
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  • To call for someone via a phone or speaker

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  • Friend, usually male

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  • Happy noise you make when something is funny
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  • Very; to a high level or degree
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  • A lot; large amount; a high degree of
  • Nearly; basically
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  • A large amount; a great quantity

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  • Sounds that are sung or played to give pleasure
  • Academic study of rhythms and sounds
  • Written symbols that represent musical sounds

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  • At the present time; now

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  • To disappear or to go away
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  • Speed at which music is played; tempo
  • Point as shown on a clock, e.g. 3 p.m
  • Number of hours, minutes needed to do something
  • Occasion when something happens
  • Period or occasion that something occurred
  • Period in history or the past
  • Something measured in minutes, hours, days, etc.
  • How long an event takes; duration
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  • To check speed at which music is performed
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  • Every person; everyone

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  • Brief account of something without many details
  • A drawing made quickly that lacks detail
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  • To draw images roughly with a pencil

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  • First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
  • First opportunity to achieve something, e.g. a job
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  • verb
  • To do, be or happen for the first time; begin
  • To turn something on

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  • Being in a fortunate, good condition or state
  • Healthy and in good condition
  • adverb
  • In an acceptable, proper, or successful manner
  • In a complete, total, or full manner
  • A great and considerable degree
  • In a successful way, in a good or satisfactory way
  • exclamation
  • Used to begin or continue a particular statement
  • Used to show you want to start saying something
  • Used to express that you are waiting for a reply
  • You say this to change the topic of a conversation
  • Used to indicate you are making a final remark
  • noun
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  • To fill in something to make it a very dark color

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  • Something or someone not taken seriously
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  • To say or do things that are meant to be funny

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  • To look toward; point in a certain direction

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  • To make a formal speech about something
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  • verb
  • To feel curious about something
  • To think or consider about something over time
  • Subtitles section
  • Our next guest is an Emmy and Tony nominated writer, comedian, and producer.
  • You know from her work on the Amber Ruffin show, some like it hot on Broadway.
  • In this show, she adapted the book for the revival of The Wiz, which is playing at the Marquis Theater in New York.
  • Please welcome back to the show our very good friend Amber Ruffin, everybody!
  • Amber, Robin, as I live and breathe.
  • I love you!
  • Buddy!
  • We've been doing this show together for ten years.
  • Ten years.
  • I knew you for another ten years before this even, so I think we're about twenty years into friendship.
  • Yeah, which is odd because I'm twenty three.
  • Yeah.
  • Seth.
  • Yes.
  • That was a fun lie I told for fun.
  • That was a joke.
  • About you being, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  • Yeah.
  • But I want you to know, I know it's April first.
  • Yeah.
  • So you're expecting me to tell you some weird April Fool's lie thing and I'm not gonna do it.
  • Okay.
  • Okay.
  • Okay.
  • Okay.
  • Because you know I don't love that sort of thing.
  • Yeah, you don't like surprises.
  • I don't like surprises.
  • And yet, we did our fiftieth of... our fiftieth version of Jokes Seth Can't Tell, which is one of my favorite recurring bits with you and Jenny Hagel.
  • I'm nothing if not incredibly supportive.
  • An ally, one might say.
  • And yet, for the fiftieth one, you surprised me.
  • I had no idea.
  • And you guys wore gowns and tiaras.
  • And you walked out on a red carpet.
  • In jokes, Seth can't tell.
  • Seth says the setups.
  • And Jenny, a lesbian, and me, black lady, we say the punchlines that Seth wouldn't be able to get away with saying.
  • But for the fiftieth, we made him say all the punchlines.
  • He didn´t like it.
  • He doesn´t like that.
  • Were you nervous at all at how I´d react?
  • No!
  • I knew you wouldn´t like it!
  • Oh, so you started it, how bad it could go.
  • Oh, yeah.
  • And I kept, like, Jenny, the lesbian, she... I didn´t tell her how much she would dislike it on purpose because I knew she would chicken out.
  • Oh, interesting.
  • Because everybody thinks you're the nice one, but you're actually the mean one.
  • "I like chaos."
  • Yeah.
  • We did a wonderful podcast of people sharing their stories about the first ten years of the show, and you talked about Fun Obama was a character you played on the show.
  • Here's Amber as Fun Obama.
  • There's Fun Obama backstage.
  • So, you may notice that none of these are during a show, because when we rehearsed Fun Obama, like, okay, so, we do the show for D.C., right?
  • We go to D.C.
  • Everybody goes, man, the whole show.
  • Goes to D.C.
  • having the time of our lives.
  • We do one sketch in D.C.
  • It is Fun Obama.
  • We bring that stupid wig.
  • We bring that whole suit, and we do it for the rehearsal audience.
  • The audience bigger than you guys, and there were zero laughs.
  • It was the hardest I've ever bombed, but look how happy I am.
  • Yeah, well, look, there's... This is about when you know you're about to bomb.
  • Look at how smug.
  • Look at how smug you are.
  • "I really thought it was gonna be good.
  • I really did."
  • And the really fun thing about you bombing is you are such an enthusiastic performer that there's no way to undersell it.
  • You were just so, like, just flop sweat city, like, jumping around, trying to get people behind Fun Obama.
  • Nothing.
  • I'll never forget, like, during the, like, second joke of it, where I looked at you, and you looked at me, and we're like, there's five more pages.
  • It was great.
  • So, uh, The Wiz, congratulations on The Wiz and writing the book for The Wiz.
  • Yeah!
  • Yeah!
  • How do you even approach a job like this?
  • Um, we actually started in twenty eighteen, I want to say.
  • Um, we put it up at a place called The Muny in St.
  • Louis, and it was so frickin' cute.
  • And those people were like, we're going to Broadway, we're going to Broadway.
  • I was like, oh.
  • But then we remounted it, and we re re re rewrote it.
  • And now we open.
  • Well, previews started a minute ago.
  • And we open on April seventeenth.
  • So exciting.
  • Congratulations.
  • Now, I'm wondering, though, because I know you have a performer's heart.
  • Is it weird working on a project where you are not one of the people on stage?
  • Oh, I'm performing.
  • in the audience so hard man these people are like it's so funny because when you do comedy you can sing fine it's fine your voice you're a great singer on this show perfectly fine enough for people who don't know what music is
  • But to sit in the audience where those people melt your face every night, they're simply the best singers on the planet.
  • And it makes listening to the radio hard.
  • They're so good at singing.
  • That's so exciting.
  • Yeah, I'm pretty quiet nowadays.
  • Do you have a podcast I want to talk about with your sister, Lacey, the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show?
  • And, uh, let's look at those two.
  • My brother and I have a podcast.
  • You were a guest on our podcast.
  • What do you think?
  • Do you think your dynamic is different than Josh and I as hosts?
  • Well, first off, me and Lacey's show is better.
  • Okay.
  • Also, we will just rip each other so fricking bad.
  • The other day, Lacey had gotten done up to do the podcast, and I didn't because I'm a schlub.
  • And Lacey kept saying that we were a before and after picture.
  • And we look exactly alike.
  • But the difference is the makeup.
  • You do have a very exciting, very real announcement to make.
  • Yeah, I do.
  • Not an April Fool's.
  • It's not an April Fool's at all.
  • Okay.
  • It's just a personal announcement.
  • Okay, great.
  • Okay, so, like, Seth, we're friends.
  • This is true.
  • I got divorced last year.
  • That's true.
  • Yeah.
  • I married Fred Armisen.
  • I don´t think it´s true.
  • I think it´s true.
  • We got married.
  • Nope.
  • Yes, we´re one hundred percent married.
  • I mean, it´s not implausible.
  • But... We got married.
  • Fred.
  • Yes.
  • Do you remember our vows?
  • Yes.
  • Yeah.
  • I said, hey, right here, right now, let's go, let's do this.
  • Come on, please.
  • You're so great.
  • And that was You said please in your vows?
  • Yes.
  • Yes.
  • Cause like, it was like a surprise wedding.
  • Yeah, well I'm wondering why I wasn't there.
  • I know two of your best friends got married, but we, you just, you steal the spotlight.
  • We got married and we're, we're in love.
  • That's great.
  • Seth, I got something to tell you.
  • It was an April Fool's.
  • Really good, Amber.
  • God.
  • You really had me going.
  • Thanks.
  • Really good.
  • It's Fred.
  • Fredder.
  • You're hosting the Webby's.
  • That's a real thing.
  • Yay!
  • I'm hosting the Webby's.
  • The Webby's are an award show for the Internet.
  • Seth.
  • Yeah.
  • You hosted the Webby's one.
  • I did.
  • Was it fun?
  • It was.
  • Did you love it?
  • I did.
  • Okay.
  • There you go.
  • Thanks.
  • Thank you.
  • No, no, no.
  • Yeah, thank me.
  • Thank you for being here.
  • Amber Ruffin, everybody.
  • The Wiz is playing with the Martin Scorsese Theater in New York.
  • We'll be right back with more Late Night, everybody.