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NZ milder with downpours + the Melbourne storm

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pattern

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US / 'pætn /

UK / ˈpætən /

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  • noun
  • Model to follow in making or doing something
  • Colors or shapes which are repeated on objects
  • Regular repeated behavior
  • verb
  • To copy the way something else is made

northerly

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UK / ˈnɔːrðərli /

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  • adverb
  • Situated in or oriented toward the north

aussie

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US / ˈɔ:si /

UK / ˈɔsi, ˈɔzi /

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  • adjective
  • Australian.
  • noun
  • A person from Australia.

not

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US / nɒt /

UK / nɑt /

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

our

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US / 'aʊə(r) /

UK / aʊr /

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  • determiner
  • Belonging to us

quite

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US / kwaɪt /

UK / kwaɪt /

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  • adverb
  • Not very; fairly
  • Very; In a complete or total manner

now

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US / naʊ /

UK / naʊ /

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  • 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

september

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US / sepˈtembə(r) /

UK / sɛpˈtɛmbɚ /

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  • noun
  • 9th month of the year

south

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US / saʊθ /

UK / saʊθ /

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  • adjecitve
  • Direction to your right when facing the rising sun
  • Coming from the opposite direction from north
  • noun
  • The direction to your right of the rising sun

can

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US / kæn /

UK / kən,kæn /

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  • 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

fifth

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US / fɪfθ /

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  • noun
  • 5th

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

towards

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US / tə'wɔ:dz /

UK / 'təuədz, twɔ:dz /

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  • preposition
  • In the direction of someone or something

but

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US / bət /

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  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

coastline

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  • noun
  • Area of sea alongside the land in an area

stormy

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US / ˈstɔ:mi /

UK / ˈstɔ:rmi /

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  • adjecitve
  • Full of anger or emotion
  • With high winds, rain or snow

bay

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US / beɪ /

UK / be /

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  • noun
  • Part of an ocean or lake partly surrounded by land

same

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US / seɪm /

UK / sem /

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

blue

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US / blu: /

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  • adjecitve
  • Color of the clear sky
  • Feeling sad or down

north

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  • adjecitve
  • Coming from the opposite direction to the south
  • noun
  • Direction to your left when facing the rising sun

melbourne

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  • proper noun
  • The capital of Victoria, in southeastern Australia, on the Bass Strait, opposite Tasmania; populatio
  • A resort city in east central Florida, south of Cape Canaveral; population 77,351 (est. 2008).

really

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US / ˈri:əli /

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

victoria

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US / vikˈtɔ:riə /

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  • noun
  • A light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a collapsible hood, seats for two passengers, and an
  • proper noun
  • A state of southeastern Australia; population 5,313,823 (2008); capital, Melbourne. Originally a dis
  • A port at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, capital of British Columbia; population 78,057 (2006
  • The capital of the Seychelles, a port on the island of Mahé; population 26,000 (est. 2007).
  • The administrative center of Hong Kong; population 981,700 (est. 2006).
  • A city in southern Texas; population 62,558 (est. 2008).
  • (1819–1901), queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1837–1901 and empress of India 1876–1901. She took a

area

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US / 'eərɪə /

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  • noun
  • Amount of measured space
  • A specific section or space; part of a region
  • A subject or field of study

fairly

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US / 'feəlɪ /

UK / ˈfɛrli /

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  • adverb
  • Quite; pretty; between very and a little
  • In a manner that is right and acceptable

millimetre

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US / ˈmɪlimi:tə(r) /

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  • noun
  • Unit of measure, 1/1000 of a metre (symbol mm)

side

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  • adjecitve
  • In addition to the central or most important thing
  • Next to, or very close to, the right or left of
  • noun
  • Position or opinion that is opposite to another
  • Right or left part of a person's body
  • Feature of someone's personality
  • Straight edge of an object
  • One of two or more groups fighting each other
  • verb
  • To decide to agree with one point, not the other

reason

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US / 'ri:zn /

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  • noun
  • Ability to think about facts and form a judgment
  • Explanation for why something occurred or was done
  • verb
  • To think and make conclusions in a logical manner

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

day

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US / deɪ /

UK / de /

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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

flow

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  • noun
  • Amount of something that moves through an area
  • verb
  • To move steadily and easily in a certain direction

mild

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  • adjecitve
  • Gentle in nature or behavior
  • Being neither too cold nor too hot

snow

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  • noun
  • Person's name
  • White ice crystals that fall from the sky
  • verb
  • (Of ice crystals) to fall to the ground
  • To fool into believing something untrue

gale

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  • noun
  • Strong wind; very windy weather

sunday

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UK / ˈsʌndi, -ˌde /

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  • noun
  • Seventh day of the week, the day after Saturday

dust

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  • noun
  • Fine dry powder that builds up on surfaces
  • verb
  • To apply a fine powder to, e.g. sugar to a cake
  • To wipe something to remove dirt

many

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US / 'menɪ /

UK / ˈmɛni /

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  • determiner
  • Used to refer a large number of things

itself

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US / ɪtˈself /

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  • pronoun
  • Referring to it

tasman

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US / ˈtæzmən /

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  • other
  • Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand

weather

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US / 'weðə(r) /

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  • noun
  • Whether it is raining, sunny, cold etc. outside
  • verb
  • To successfully deal with a difficult situation
  • To erode or become damaged due to the environment

will

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US / wɪl /

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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

australia

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  • noun
  • The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean

continue

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US / kən'tɪnju: /

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

sort

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US / sɔ:t /

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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

unless

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US / ənˈles /

UK / ʌnˈlɛs /

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  • conjunction
  • Negative of 'if'

actually

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US / ˈæktʃuəli /

UK / ˈæktʃuəli /

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

speak

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  • verb
  • To be able to use a certain language
  • To use words to tell information, express thoughts

bass

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US / beɪs /

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  • noun
  • Type of fish
  • Large cello or electric guitar with 4 strings
  • Lowest-sounding singing voice

big

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US / bɪɡ /

UK / bɪɡ /

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  • adjecitve
  • Popular
  • Serious
  • Large

let

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US / 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

little

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  • adjecitve
  • Being short in length of time
  • Not great in size, amount, or degree; small
  • Being very young or younger than others
  • adverb
  • By an amount or degree that is not very much
  • Not often; rarely
  • noun
  • A person's name

satellite

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US / 'sætəlaɪt /

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  • noun
  • Device sent into space that aids communication
  • Natural object in space that moves around another
  • Area controlled by another group or country

westerly

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US / ˈwestəli /

UK / ˈwestərli /

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  • adverb
  • Wind; from the west; moving toward the west

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

across

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US / əˈkrɔs /

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  • adverb
  • Distance from one side to another
  • (Go) from one side to the other of something

weekend

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US / ˌwi:kˈend /

UK / ˈwi:kend /

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  • noun
  • Saturday and Sunday, after the normal working week

this

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US / ðɪs /

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  • 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

also

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US / 'ɔ:lsəʊ /

UK / ˈɔlso /

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

five

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US / faɪv /

UK / faɪv /

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  • number
  • 5

live

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US / lɪv /

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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

philip

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  • other
  • Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born )

sunny

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US / 'sʌnɪ /

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  • adjecitve
  • Feeling or being cheerful, happy, and friendly
  • When the sun is bright in the sky

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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US / jʊ /

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

into

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US / 'ɪntə /

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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

other

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

one

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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

settle

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  • noun
  • Type of wooden seat
  • verb
  • To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
  • To complete or finalize e.g. a contract or debt
  • To end some troubles by reaching an agreement
  • To become accustomed to a new environment
  • (Of liquids) to move to the bottom of a container

turn

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US / tɜ:n /

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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

hobart

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  • other
  • A port and state capital of Tasmania

run

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  • noun
  • Journey between two places made by ship or car
  • Series of similar things or successes and failures
  • Act of running; exercise of running
  • verb
  • To depart or travel according to a schedule
  • To cause an animal to move in a certain direction
  • (Of an engine) to be operating
  • To start or use a computer program
  • To flow in a certain direction, like a liquid
  • To manage or operate a business
  • To operate or drive something
  • (Of a road) to go from one place to another
  • To move your legs faster than walking

thunderstorm

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  • noun
  • Storm with heavy rain with thunder and lightning

half

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  • adjecitve
  • Not complete
  • adverb
  • Partly; somewhat
  • noun
  • One of two equal periods of game time in a sport
  • The part you get when one is divided into two;

map

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  • noun
  • Diagram showing the geography of an area
  • verb
  • To draw a diagram to show the geography of an area
  • To find points of similarity between things

park

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  • noun
  • Person's name
  • Public green area in a town for exercise, relaxing
  • Field upon which a sport is played, e.g. baseball
  • verb
  • To stay still without moving
  • To leave your car, bike in a certain place

windy

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US / 'wɪndɪ /

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  • adjecitve
  • When the wind is blowing
  • Using a lot of words

surface

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  • adjecitve
  • Of the top layer; not deep or meaningful
  • noun
  • Top layer of the ground or of water
  • Nature or emotions that show, but may not be true
  • Outside or upper layer of something
  • verb
  • To give (road) a top layer
  • To appear after being hidden, unseen, or unknown
  • To come to the top of something; emerge
  • To come to the top level of water, mud, etc.

ora

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US / ˈɔ:rə /

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  • noun

warm

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  • adjecitve
  • Friendly, sincere and kind to others
  • Being friendly or sincere
  • Slightly hot; not very hot
  • verb
  • To become more friendly or to like something
  • To make something hotter

shortage

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US / ˈʃɔ:tɪdʒ /

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  • noun
  • A lack of something necessary

well

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  • adjecitve
  • 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
  • Long deep hole in the ground to get water
  • verb
  • To cause your eyes to fill with tears

cold

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US / kəʊld /

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  • adjecitve
  • Having a very low temperature
  • Being unfriendly or lacking emotion
  • noun
  • Illness of sneezing, coughing, and a sore throat

few

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US / fju: /

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  • pronoun
  • Not many, a small number

messy

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  • adjecitve
  • Being complex or difficult to fix
  • Being untidy or dirty

hometown

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  • noun
  • Town (or city) where you grew up or where you live

under

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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

system

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US / 'sɪstəm /

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  • adjecitve
  • Working in an organized, logical way
  • noun
  • Set of organized, planned ideas that work together

airflow

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US / ˈeəfləʊ /

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  • noun
  • Movement of air around objects

just

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  • adjecitve
  • Proper or appropriate; as is deserved
  • Doing or being what is right or fair
  • Legally correct; having enough evidence
  • adverb
  • Almost; nearly
  • Exactly at the time of
  • Exactly (the same as, like)

range

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  • noun
  • Cooking stove with multiple burners
  • Given distance from a point; how far plane can fly
  • Large grassy area where cattle wander and feed
  • Group or chain of mountains
  • Set of things with something in common
  • Limits within which something extends or varies
  • A set of products, e.g. so that people can choose
  • verb
  • To cover an area from one point to another
  • To extend to or vary within given limits
  • To put things in a row or in line
  • To wander or explore

stuff

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  • noun
  • Generic description for things, materials, objects
  • verb
  • To push material inside something, with force

those

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US / ðəʊz /

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

though

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US / ðəu /

UK / ðo /

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  • adverb
  • Although, despite the fact that

green

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  • adjecitve
  • Color of young leaves
  • Covered with vegetation, e.g. grass
  • Concerned about protecting the environment
  • The color of young leaves
  • Lacking in experience/knowledge due to being young
  • Being not fully grown or ripe, as in fruit
  • noun
  • Large grassy area
  • used as a part of a name of a place (UK)

for

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US / fə(r) /

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

hello

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US / hə'ləʊ /

UK / hɛˈlo, hə- /

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  • exclamation
  • What you say when you meet someone

why

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US / waɪ /

UK / hwaɪ, waɪ /

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  • adverb
  • Question word to ask for a reason
  • exclamation
  • (Used to express surprise or approval)

wind

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  • adjecitve
  • (Musical instruments) that you blow into to play
  • noun
  • A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
  • Something that has influence
  • verb
  • If a road, path, or river winds, it follows a route that turns repeatedly in different directions
  • To turn or cause something to turn
  • To twist around something

through

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  • adjecitve
  • having finished using or doing something
  • adverb
  • From the beginning of something until the end
  • preposition
  • Over, in, across an entire thing or place
  • Allowing you to pass between, or to
  • By a particular way or process; by the use of

lately

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US / ˈleɪtli /

UK / ˈletli /

B1
  • adverb
  • In the recent period of time; recently; just now

come

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US / kʌm /

UK / kʌm /

A1
  • 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

particular

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US / pəˈtɪkjələ(r) /

UK / pɚˈtɪkjəlɚ, pəˈtɪk- /

B2
  • adjecitve
  • One specific (one)
  • Having firm ideas about what is desirable
  • Being special or more than is typical

squeeze

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US / skwi:z /

UK / skwiz /

C1
  • noun
  • Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
  • Act of putting pressure on, as to get liquid out
  • When there is not enough space for things/people
  • Act of firmly pressing on two or more sides
  • verb
  • To force or threaten someone to give you something
  • To strongly compress something to get liquid out
  • To be pressed together or crowded into an area
  • To press together the opposite sides of something
  • To reduce the amount of something

another

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US / əˈnʌðə(r) /

UK / əˈnʌðɚ /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • One more, but not this
  • determiner
  • One more added
  • pronoun
  • One more (thing)

battle

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US / 'bætl /

UK / ˈbætl /

A2
  • noun
  • Military fight between armies
  • Working hard to stop something; struggle
  • verb
  • To fight or struggle against someone or something
  • To work hard to stop something; struggle

ease

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US / i:z /

UK / iz /

A2
  • noun
  • State of being comfortable or relaxed
  • verb
  • To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
  • To move slowly and purposely to get in small space

region

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US / 'ri:dʒən /

UK / ˈridʒən /

A2
  • noun
  • Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.

zone

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US / zəʊn /

UK / zoʊn /

B1
  • noun
  • Area of space designated for a particular use
  • verb
  • To divide an area for a particular reason

and

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US / ənd /

UK / ənd, ən,ænd /

A1
  • conjunction
  • Used to refer to two or more things
  • Plus; in addition; on top of that
  • Used to introduce an action that follows another

animate

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US / 'ænɪmeɪt /

UK / ˈænəˌmet /

B2
  • verb
  • To give life, energy, or motion to something

certainly

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US / ˈsə:tnli /

UK / ˈsɚtnli /

A1
  • adverb
  • Sure; of course

back

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US / bæk /

UK / bæk /

A1
  • 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

lot

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US / lɒt /

UK / lɑt /

A1
  • noun
  • What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
  • A group of people seen together
  • Item for sale at an auction
  • Small area of land used for a purpose e.g. parking

duncan

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US / ˈdʌmpi /

UK / ˈdʌmpi /

A1

most

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US / məʊst /

UK / most /

A1
  • adverb
  • Very; extremely
  • Greatest possible degree
  • pronoun
  • Nearly all of something

mostly

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US / ˈməʊstli /

UK / ˈmoʊstli /

A2
  • adverb
  • In large part; mainly or chiefly

fiji

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US / fi:ˈdʒi:,ˈfi:dʒi: /

UK / ˈfidʒi /

A1
  • noun
  • An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands

front

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US / frʌnt /

UK / frʌnt /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Opposite of back; the forward part of an object
  • noun
  • Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
  • Area where fighting in a war is happening
  • Place where air of different temperatures meets
  • verb
  • To have the forward part facing something
  • To lead a group of people, usually a band

join

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US / dʒɔɪn /

UK / dʒɔɪn /

A1
  • verb
  • To bring something close to another, to become one
  • To become a member of
  • To participate in an activity with others

only

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US / ˈəunli /

UK / ˈonli /

A1
  • adverb
  • Just one; just that amount or thing; not more than
  • Not very important or serious
  • Just that type of thing, person
  • Short time ago; not before a certain time
  • conjunction
  • Except; but

spring

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US / sprɪŋ /

UK / sprɪŋ /

A1
  • noun
  • Coil of metal that lessens impact, e.g. on cars
  • Sudden jump from one place to another
  • The time when plants start growing after winter
  • Place where water flows from beneath the ground
  • verb
  • To lessen the impact of something under pressure
  • To jump into the air

two

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US / tu: /

UK / tu /

A1
  • number
  • 2

ten

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US / ten /

UK / tɛn /

A1
  • number
  • 10

far

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US / fɑ:(r) /

UK / fɑr /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • A long way away
  • Being a long way away
  • adverb
  • To a large degree or extent

picture

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US / 'pɪktʃə(r) /

UK / ˈpɪktʃɚ /

A1
  • 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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US / hwɛə /

UK / hwɛr, wɛr /

A1
  • conjunction
  • At or in the place which
  • In whatever place
  • pronoun
  • Word you use to ask the location of something

along

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US / əˈlɒŋ /

UK / əˈlɔ:ŋ /

A1
  • adverb
  • As a companion; taken with someone
  • preposition
  • At a point on a line

canterbury

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US / ˈkæntəbəri /

UK / ˈkæntɚˌbɛri, -bri, -tə- /

A1
  • proper noun
  • A city in Kent, in southeastern England, the seat of the archbishop of Canterbury; population 41,900

from

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US / frəm /

UK / frʌm, frɑm,frəm /

A1
  • preposition
  • Starting at a particular place, time or level

plenty

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US / 'plentɪ /

UK / ˈplɛnti /

A2
  • pronoun
  • When there is not too little of something; a lot

out

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US / aʊt /

UK / aʊt /

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

over

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US / 'əʊvə(r) /

UK / ˈovɚ /

A1
  • adverb
  • Finished; no longer happening
  • Towards the ground/away from a standing position
  • noun
  • A set of six consecutive balls bowled in cricket
  • other
  • Finished
  • preposition
  • Showing the relation when a thing is above another
  • On or covering something
  • Above or across something
  • More than you need
  • From one side to the other
  • In the direction of; toward

thursday

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US / ˈθɜːzdeɪ /

UK / ˈθɜːrzdeɪ /

A1
  • noun
  • Fourth day of the week; the day after Wednesday

unsettle

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US / ˌʌnˈsetl /

UK / ʌnˈsɛtl: /

B2
  • verb
  • To upset; making someone feel uneasy

blast

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US / blɑ:st /

UK / blæst /

B1
  • noun
  • Destructive wave of air from an explosion
  • Strong current of wind
  • verb
  • To attack someone with words
  • To destroy something with explosives
  • To make a loud noise on or with something

finally

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US / ˈfaɪnəli /

UK / ˈfaɪnəli /

A1
  • adverb
  • used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
  • After a long time or some difficulty

couple

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US / 'kʌpl /

UK / ˈkʌpəl /

A2
  • noun
  • Two people in a romantic relationship
  • Two of something; two people; a pair
  • verb
  • To join something to something else
  • (Two animals) to engage in sexual relations
  • To put two people or things together

keep

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US / ki:p /

UK / kip /

A1
  • 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

east

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US / i:st /

UK / i:st /

A1
  • noun
  • Direction where the sun rises
  • Geographic area including India, China, Japan etc.

squash

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US / skwɒʃ /

UK / skwɑ:ʃ /

B2
  • noun
  • Game with bats and ball in a court with four walls
  • Type of vegetable with a hard skin and firm flesh
  • verb
  • To stop a revolt, etc. continuing; overcome; defeat
  • To press firmly to make something flat or fit in
  • To crowd into a place where there is not much room

all

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US / ɔ:l /

UK / ɔl /

A1
  • adverb
  • Completely; totally
  • determiner
  • Being every one of something
  • pronoun
  • 100% of something; the complete amount

heavy

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US / 'hevɪ /

UK / ˈhɛvi /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Greater in amount, degree, or severity than usual
  • Involving serious or strong emotions
  • Having a lot of weight

move

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US / mu:v /

UK / muv /

A1
  • noun
  • Act of moving a playing piece in chess, etc.
  • An action; doing something
  • Step taken to achieve a goal
  • verb
  • To cause someone to have certain emotions
  • To cause something to change to a different place
  • To change where people live or a business operates
  • To take action to do or achieve something

northeast

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US / 'nɔ:θ'i:st /

UK / nɔrθˈist, nɔrˈist /

C2
  • noun
  • Location in the northeastern part of an area

way

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US / weɪ /

UK / we /

A1
  • 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

yes

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US / jes /

UK / jɛs /

A1
  • adverb
  • Way to say you agree or will do something

both

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US / bəuθ /

UK / boθ /

A1
  • determiner
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time
  • pronoun
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time

pressure

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US / 'preʃə(r) /

UK / ˈprɛʃɚ /

A2
  • noun
  • Anxiety caused by difficult problems
  • Force, weight when pressing against a thing
  • Strong persuasion to do something
  • verb
  • To apply force to something
  • To persuade or force someone to do something

kia

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US / ˈkiər /

UK / /

A1
  • abbreviation
  • Killed in action.

update

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US / ˌʌpˈdeɪt /

UK / ʌpˈdet /

B1
  • noun
  • Addition of a current version of something
  • New information or data to make more current
  • verb
  • To download the latest version of software
  • To make more current or modern

take

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US / teɪk /

UK / tek /

A1
  • 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

yesterday

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US / ˈjestədeɪ /

UK / ˈjestərdeɪ /

A1
  • adverb
  • Day before today
  • noun
  • Day before today

dry

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US / draɪ /

UK / draɪ /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • (Of humor) clever, but not obvious; ironic
  • Without water; not wet
  • (Of wine, etc.) not sweet
  • Without butter or jam
  • verb
  • To remove liquid or water from something

pretty

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US / 'prɪtɪ /

UK / ˈprɪti /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
  • adverb
  • Very; to a great degree

wednesday

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US / ˈwenzdeɪ /

UK / ˈwenzdeɪ /

A1
  • noun
  • Third day of the week; the day after Tuesday

zealand

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US / ˈzi:lənd /

UK / ˈzilənd /

A1
  • other
  • Largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen

between

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US / bɪˈtwi:n /

UK / bɪˈtwin /

A1
  • preposition
  • From one person, thing, or place, to another
  • In the space that separates two objects
  • Among two or more people who share something

mountain

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US / 'maʊntən /

UK / ˈmaʊntən /

A1
  • noun
  • Very high piece of land, higher than a hill

southerly

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US / 'sʌðəlɪ /

UK / ˈsʌðəli /

B1
  • adverb
  • Situated in or oriented toward the south

very

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US / 'verɪ /

UK / ˈvɛri /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a large degree or amount
  • adverb
  • A lot; much; many
  • Used to stress or emphasize a noun

act

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US / ækt /

UK / ækt /

A1
  • noun
  • What someone did; action; behavior
  • A law or rule passed by a government we must obey
  • One of the parts that a stage play is divided into
  • verb
  • To behave in a certain way
  • To perform on a stage or in a movie

bit

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US / bɪt /

UK / bɪt /

A1
  • 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

country

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US / ˈkʌntri /

UK / ˈkʌntri /

A1
  • noun
  • An area of land that is controlled by a government
  • Open land that is away from towns and cities

look

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US / lʊk /

UK / lʊk /

A1
  • 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

thank

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US / θæŋk /

UK / θæŋk /

A1
  • verb
  • To tell someone you are grateful to them

daytime

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US / ˈdeɪtaɪm /

UK / ˈdeˌtaɪm /

B1
  • noun
  • The time of day you can see the sun

hear

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US / hɪə(r) /

UK / hɪr /

A1
  • verb
  • To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
  • To be told or find out information or facts
  • To consider or listen to a court case

coast

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US / kəʊst /

UK / kost /

A2
  • noun
  • Land near the sea or ocean
  • verb
  • To progress in something without trying hard
  • (Of a vehicle) to move forward without power

island

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US / ˈaɪlənd /

UK / ˈaɪlənd /

A1
  • noun
  • Area of land that is surrounded by water

have

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US / həv /

UK / hæv /

A1
  • 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

six

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US / sɪks /

UK / sɪks /

A1
  • number
  • 6

part

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US / pɑ:t /

UK / pɑ:rt /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • To some degree; half; not fully
  • noun
  • Division of a book
  • Ratio of something, e.g. 3 of gin, 1 of tonic
  • A line in a person's hair, made with a comb
  • Character an actor plays on stage, movie, or TV
  • Some, but not all of a specific thing
  • Role in causing something to happen
  • verb
  • To make a line in a person's hair, by using a comb
  • To move two things apart creating a space
  • To leave someone, or to break off a relationship

tuesday

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US / ˈtjuːzdeɪ /

UK / ˈtuːzdeɪ /

A1
  • noun
  • Second day of the week; the day after Monday

spit

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US / spɪt /

UK / spɪt /

B1
  • verb
  • To forcefully blow saliva out from your mouth

western

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US / ˈwestən /

UK / ˈwestərn /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Movies often about cowboys in the American West
  • Coming from, found in, or facing towards the west

southern

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US / ˈsʌðən /

UK / ˈsʌðərn /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a region in the south
  • Being in or toward the south

with

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US / wɪð /

UK / wɪð, wɪθ /

A1
  • 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

behind

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US / bɪˈhaɪnd /

UK / bɪˈhaɪnd /

A1
  • 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

downpour

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US / ˈdaʊnpɔ:(r) /

UK / ˈdaʊnˌpɔr, -ˌpor /

C2
  • noun
  • A heavy rain shower

moment

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US / 'məʊmənt /

UK / 'moʊmənt /

A1
  • noun
  • Very short or brief period of time
  • A particular period in time

end

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US / end /

UK / ɛnd /

A1
  • noun
  • The point where a process or activity stops
  • A point that marks the limit of something; finish
  • Goal or desired result
  • The tip, edge or limit of something
  • verb
  • To be the last part of something

fall

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US / fɔ:l /

UK / fɔl /

A1
  • noun
  • Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
  • A drop in amount; decrease
  • Dropping from a standing position to the ground
  • verb
  • To drop in amount; to decrease
  • To come down from a higher position suddenly
  • To go from standing to the ground, by accident

active

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US / ˈæktɪv /

UK / ˈæktɪv /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Moving around a lot or doing many things

low

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US / ləʊ /

UK / lo /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Having a small quantity, supply, or amount
  • Being unhappy or unpleasant in attitude
  • Not high; being near the ground, or bottom
  • (Of a voice, sound) being soft; quiet
  • noun
  • Situation of not having a lot of something

see

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US / si: /

UK / si /

A1
  • verb
  • To go on a date with someone
  • To predict whether something is, or will be true
  • To understand what someone says
  • To use your eyes to look at something
  • To visit a place often for sightseeing or pleasure
  • To visit or meet with someone
  • To find out by waiting or looking
  • To watch (a game, movie or TV show)

blow

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US / bləʊ /

UK / blo /

A2
  • noun
  • Something that causes you difficulty or sadness
  • Act of making air come out of your mouth
  • A hit or strike from an object
  • verb
  • To move something using air
  • To make air come quickly out of your mouth
  • To clear something by forcing air through it

clear

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US / klɪə(r) /

UK / klɪr /

A1
  • 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

next

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US / nekst /

UK / nɛkst /

A1
  • adverb
  • The one that follows another in time or order
  • At a time or place directly after the present one
  • noun
  • The one that follows after
  • adjecitve
  • Immediately after the previous one
  • First occurrence after the present one

quickly

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US / ˈkwɪkli /

UK / ˈkwɪklɪ /

A1
  • adverb
  • Without taking a lot of time; fast

away

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US / ə'weɪ /

UK / əˈwe /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Not present
  • adverb
  • Disappear completely
  • Doing something with a lot of energy
  • Not here; far from here; in a different direction
  • To a different area, location

downhill

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US / ˌdaʊnˈhɪl /

UK / ˈdaʊnˈhɪl /

C2
  • adverb
  • From higher ground to lower ground

hundred

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US / 'hʌndrəd /

UK / ˈhʌndrɪd /

A1
  • number
  • 100

squally

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US / ˈskwɔːli /

UK / ˈskwɔːli /

A1
  • adverb
  • Characterized by short periods of noisy commotion

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

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

particularly

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  • Subtitles section
  • Hello, kia ora, I'm Philip Duncan, thanks for joining us for our Tuesday weather update, recorded September the fifth, and we're tracking an active cold front coming out of Victoria, and for New Zealand, mild winds at the moment.
  • Let's have a look at the animated infrared satellite map, and you can see this active cold front coming out of Victoria, and ACT in New South Wales as well.
  • Plenty of thunderstorms, mostly out at sea though now, and behind it, westerly winds.
  • But over on the New Zealand side, low pressure just here, that's driving in some downpours, which we had across yesterday.
  • And the windy weather that we had falling apart because the low itself right here is also falling apart.
  • But you can see a few downpours today around New Zealand.
  • And up in the tropics for Fiji, finally, the skies are dry.
  • There's been plenty of rain lately up into the north of New Zealand.
  • So let's take a look at the thunderstorms at the moment.
  • This is what has just cleared Victoria moving out to sea and away from Tasmania.
  • Very windy around the Bass Strait area, and that weather will continue on.
  • As it moves out to the Tasman it runs into this low, but that low is actually falling apart, and that's because of high pressure further out to the east.
  • Look at that northeast flow though, down across New Zealand.
  • So on the big picture you can see
  • that high parked out over the Chatham Islands, and the airflow coming down as a nor'easter around most of New Zealand.
  • Now by the end of today, that low in the Tasman has gone, really is falling apart quite quickly across Tuesday.
  • So that's the reason why the squash zone in between the high and the low, which has been particularly windy
  • in my hometown of Te Aroha in the eastern Waikato.
  • Windy conditions through there, easing now though as that low falls apart, and as that cold front punches out of Australia, it all gets caught up in that same messy weather pattern.
  • So let's have a look at the rain that is on the way for New Zealand.
  • The heaviest rain is in this zone here.
  • This is around a hundred and twenty five
  • millimetres or more for that part of New Zealand.
  • But elsewhere, we're just seeing a few showers, the green and the blue, only a couple of spits.
  • So for eastern New Zealand, it's drying out very quickly now.
  • Didn't take long to go from being so muddy for the first half of this year to now getting quite dry on the surface.
  • And we're hearing that around Hawke's Bay and now in Canterbury as well.
  • Let's have a look at the forecast now.
  • Let's get into this.
  • So here we are on Wednesday.
  • We've got that new system coming out of Australia.
  • There is that active cold front we just saw.
  • So yes, some thunderstorms coming from Australia into the South Island's west coast.
  • That's why you've got plenty of rain on the way.
  • And see the unsettled weather pattern, westerly winds along the southern coastline of Australia.
  • So still a very unsettled pattern for that southern coastline of Aussie.
  • And in the New Zealand zone,
  • High pressure out to the east means that you've got this northerly airflow coming down, or at least westerlies.
  • Northerlies and westerlies are both fairly mild.
  • Let's go through to Thursday.
  • Westerly winds blow through New Zealand.
  • We've got showers all along the western side of the country, mostly dry and sunny in the east, where daytime highs are going to get into the low twenties.
  • So we're getting to that warm spring like weather pattern coming into the New Zealand area.
  • Now speaking of warm, Thursday, northerly winds across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and also Hobart, but look what's going on in Adelaide.
  • In comes the next cold front, and it looks like another active one, which means there's thunderstorms and squally weather and that.
  • So by Friday,
  • It's Victoria's turn to get that storm coming through, the Melbourne storm, if you like.
  • Low pressure in Bass Strait.
  • New Zealand is under high pressure, so pretty settled for New Zealand on Friday.
  • But this blast comes through with gale force winds.
  • It'll be colder in Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart, and then later on colder for Canberra and coming into Sydney and Newcastle later on as that southerly comes in.
  • A dusting of snow through the mountains and ranges of Tasmania and Victoria in particular.
  • and then big high pressure behind it all.
  • So that's where all the energy is.
  • New Zealand and Western Australia both fairly settled.
  • But as we go into the weekend, it goes downhill for Western Australia.
  • There is your next low.
  • You're sort of getting one every five, six days at the moment.
  • High pressure rolls through here, pushes out that stormy stuff.
  • But high pressure over the Chatham Islands keeps New Zealand fairly settled for now.
  • But we go through to Sunday and now it's a battle of the two big highs.
  • One big high out here over
  • Adelaide the other big high out here over the Chatham Islands and in between the two low pressure and so the closer those highs get
  • the more this gets squeezed apart.
  • But certainly there's a little bit of energy in between those two highs as we go towards the end of the weekend.
  • So it'll be mild for New Zealand with those northerly winds.
  • So quite a bit going on around New Zealand and Australia.
  • But if you take a look at your ten day forecast in New Zealand, for many regions, it doesn't look like there's a lot going on, unless of course you live on the West Coast where there is no shortage of rain and thunderstorms on the way.
  • That's all from me.
  • We'll be back again tomorrow, Wednesday, with our next update.
  • We'll see you then.