How to use this word list: (1) Read the list silently at first and understand the meaning of the words; and (2) To practice your pronunciation, read the words and their definitions, or the words only, at your full speaking volume.
Parts of speech: n. (noun) - a name word; (verb) - an action word; ad. (adjective/adverb) - a describing word; prep. (preposition) - a word used to show a relation; pro. (pronoun) - a word used in place of a noun; conj. (conjunction) - a joining word
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- jail - n. a prison for those waiting to be tried for a crime or for those serving sentences for crimes that are not serious
- jewel - n. a valuable stone, such as a diamond or emerald
- job - n. the work that one does to earn money
- join - v. to put together or come together; to become part of or a member of
- joint - ad. shared by two or more
- joke - n. something done or said to cause others to laugh
- judge - v. to form an opinion about; to decide a question, especially a legal one; n. a public official who decides problems of law in a court
- jump - v. to push down on the feet and move up quickly into the air
- jury - n. a group of people chosen to decide what is true in a trial
- just - ad. only (“Help me for just a minute.”); very shortly before or after the present (“He just left.”); at the same time (“He left just as I came in.”); what is right or fair (“The law is just, in my opinion.”)
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