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Sixth Level Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 18 |
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| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| prune | noun | My wife loves to eat a prune now and then. | type of fruit |
| verb | We need to prune down our work force. | reduce | |
| pudding | noun | My son loves to eat bread pudding. | a dessert |
| pumpkin | noun | We often use pumpkin to make a pie. | a vegetable |
| rape | verb | Rape is a serious crime against women. | sexual battery |
| verb | The pirates would rape and plunder whole islands. | pillage | |
| recess | noun | The court called a recess in the proceedings. | interlude |
| renown | noun | She became a renown author after those books. | well-known |
| repose | noun | The body lay in repose in the casket. | peace |
| rhyme | verb | Well rhymes with bell. | similar sound |
| noun | For poetry you need to be able write in rhyme. | words that sound similar | |
| robin | noun | A fat robin ran in the grass looking for worms. | type of bird |
| rustic | adj. | They lived in a rustic area of the state. | rural |
| sage | noun | He was known as a journalistic sage. | wise person |
| noun | We use sage as seasoning when we cook turkeys. | type of spice | |
| sally | verb | The enemy would sally forth to attack us. | venture |
| saloon | noun | He often would go to a saloon to drink beer. | bar |
| salvation | noun | Money can be salvation to a poor man. | deliverance |
| sap | noun | I was a sap to believe her then. | idiot |
| verb | The work would sap my strength, | weaken | |
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