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| a large notice or picture that is displayed on a wall as an ad or for decoration.
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| post office
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| a place where you go to buy stamps and to send letters and packages.
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| postpone
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| to put something off until later
| The game was postponed because of the rain.
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| posy
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| a small bunch of flowers.
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| pot
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| a container with high sides.
| coffee pot
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| potato
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| a common root vegetable that can be boiled, roasted, fried, or baked.
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| pottery
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| a general name for containers and ornaments made from clay, then baked in a kiln.
| kitchen pottery
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| pouch
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| a small, open bag or sack that is used for carrying things like money
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| pounce
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| to spring forward suddenly and grab hold of something.
| The cat pounced on the leaf
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| pour
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| to tip a container up so that its contents flow out.
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| poverty
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| the situation of not having enough money to live on.
| The family lived in poverty.
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| powder
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| a mass of very fine, dry grains of a substance.
| washing powder
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| power
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| the ability to do something.
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| practical
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| sensible and useful.
| Gloves are very practical in cold weather.
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| practice
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| to do something over and over again in order to be good at it.
| Practicing the piano.
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| praise
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| to tell someone that what they have done is very good.
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| pray
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| to talk to a god, prophet, or saint.
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| precaution
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| care or action taken in advance to prevent something from happening.
| Locks are a precaution against theft.
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| precious
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| very valuable or special to someone.
| The ring was very precious.
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| precise
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| exact or accurate.
| Stopwatches measure the precise time.
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| predict
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| to say what is going to happen in the future.
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| preen
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| to clean and arrange feathers with the beak.
| Birds preen themselves.
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| prefer
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| to like something or someone better than another.
| She pointed to the pair of skates she preferred.
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| pregnant
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| expecting a baby.
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| prehistoric
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| belonging to the time before any records were written.
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| prejudice
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| a strong feeling about something, which has been formed unfairly or before all the facts are known.
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| prepare
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| to make something or yourself ready.
| Preparing sandwiches for lunch.
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| preposition
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| a word such as “on” that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.
| The bird was on the chair in the backyard.
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| prescription
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| an order for medicine written by a doctor.
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| present
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| the time now.
| The story takes place in the present.
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