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8,130 words, searchable by word, definition, part of speech, and CEFR level.
A path or course used for racing, or a mark left by something that has passed.
A loose, comfortable set of matching trousers and top worn for exercise or casual wear.
Easy to control or influence; manageable.
A powerful farm vehicle used to pull heavy equipment or machinery.
The buying and selling of goods between people or countries.
A path regularly used by traders to move goods between places.
A custom or belief that has been passed down from older generations to younger ones.
The vehicles moving on a road at a particular time, or the illegal trade in something.
A set of red, amber, and green lights that controls the flow of traffic at a junction.
An extremely sad event, especially one involving death or great suffering.
A character trait, such as pride or jealousy, that leads a tragic hero toward their own downfall.
A rough path across rural or wild land, or a series of marks left behind by something moving.
A line of connected railway cars pulled along a track by an engine.
The process of learning or practicing a skill, often through repeated exercise.
The curved path that a moving object follows through space, especially one shaped by gravity.
A vehicle that carries passengers along tracks laid in the streets of a city.
A piece of equipment made of a stretched sheet on a frame, used for bouncing on.
Calm and peaceful, free from disturbance.
The state of going beyond ordinary limits, especially beyond the physical or material world.
Crossing an entire continent.
The biological process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA, or the act of writing down spoken words exactly as they were said.
To move something or someone from one place, person, or situation to another.
To change something so completely that it becomes almost a new thing.
A complete or major change in the form, appearance, or nature of something.
A device that changes the voltage of an alternating electric current, usually with two coils of wire wound around a shared iron core.
To break a rule, law, or moral boundary.
An act that breaks a rule, law, or moral standard.
Lasting only for a short time; temporary.
The act of travelling or being moved from one place to another, or a public transport system.
The process of changing from one state or stage to another.
A word or phrase, such as 'however' or 'in addition', used to connect ideas and guide the reader between sentences or paragraphs.
Describing a verb that takes a direct object, or a relation in which a property holding between A and B and between B and C must also hold between A and C.
Not permanent; lasting only for a short time.
To change words from one language into another while keeping the same meaning.
The act of converting words from one language into another, or, in biology, the process of building a protein from instructions carried by RNA.
Allowing some light to pass through, but not clear enough to see sharp details.
To send out a signal, information, or a disease from one place or person to another.
To change something into a different form or substance.
Allowing light to pass through so objects can be seen clearly, or open and honest without hiding anything.
The loss of water vapor from a plant's leaves, mainly through tiny pores called stomata.
The upward pull on water inside a plant's xylem, created as water evaporates from the leaves.
To carry people or goods from one place to another.
The system or means of carrying people or goods from one place to another.
A wave in which the medium moves up and down or side to side, at a right angle to the direction the wave itself is traveling.
To go from one place to another, especially over a long distance.
To travel across or through an area, especially one that is difficult.
A shocking or absurd distortion of something that should be respected or serious.
A flat piece of material with a raised edge, used for carrying food or objects.