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noun·B1·5 letters
thin tube for drinking, or dried grain stalks
Example sentence
She sipped her drink through a bright pink straw.
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Give me a sentence with "straw".
She sipped her drink through a bright pink straw.
That works. Now tell me where you last heard "straw".
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Other B1 words
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- 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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