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adjective·B1·6 letters
existing or happening before now
Example sentence
The former president gave a speech at the university.
What "former" looks like in a lesson
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Give me a sentence with "former".
The former president gave a speech at the university.
That works. Now tell me where you last heard "former".
"former" in real videos
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Other B1 words
- abandonleave behind, give up
- ablehaving the skill to do
- abnormalnot normal, unusual
- aboardon a ship, train, or plane
- aborigineoriginal native inhabitant, esp. Australian
- absencestate of being away
- absentnot present, away
- absolutecomplete, total
- absolutelycompletely, totally
- absorbsoak up, take in
- abstractexisting as an idea, not physical
- abundancea very large quantity
Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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