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620	military	©
1. adj. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
Chelsea Manning was dishonorably discharged from all military duties.
2. adj. (North America) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
If you join a military force, you may end up killing people.
3. adj. Relating to war.
621	works	©
1. n. plural of work
2. n. A mechanism or machine; the means by which something happens.
A stray wrench can really gum up the works.
3. n. A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings.
The steel works almost fills the valley.
	work
1. n. (heading) Employment.
2. n. Labour, occupation, job.
3. n. The place where one is employed.
622	evidence	©
1. n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
There is no evidence that anyone was here earlier.
We have enough cold hard evidence in that presentation which will make a world of pain for our parasitic friends at Antarctica.
2. n. (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. n. One who bears witness.
623	worked	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of work
2. adj. Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
3. adj. Wrought.
4. adj. Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
5. adj. Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
	work
1. n. (heading) Employment.
2. n. Labour, occupation, job.
3. n. The place where one is employed.
624	action	©
1. n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
2. n. A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking action.
3. n. Fast-paced activity.
a movie full of exciting action
625	running	©
1. adj. Moving or advancing at a run.
2. adj. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
3. adj. present, current
running month
4. adj. Flowing; easy; cursive.
	run
1. v. To move swiftly.
2. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
3. v. (intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
626	art	©
1. n. commons, Art
2. n. wikiquote, Art
3. n. (wikisource
4. n. wikibooks, Art
5. n. wikinews, Special:Search/art, Art
627	stands	©
1. n. plural of stand
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of stand
	stand
1. v. To position or be positioned physically.:
2. v. (intransitive) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
3. v. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
628	became	©
1. v. simple past tense of become
	become
1. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
2. v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
3. v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
629	exits
1. n. plural of exit
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of exit
	exit
1. n. A way out.
2. n. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
3. n. The action of leaving.
630	opens	©
1. n. plural of open
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of open
	open
1. adj. (not comparable) Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
2. adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
631	leaving
1. v. present participle of leave
	leave
1. v. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (somet
3. v. To cause, to result in.
632	kept	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of keep
	keep
1. v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
2. v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
3. v. To maintain possession of.
633	expect	©
1. v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidenc
I expect to receive wages. I expect that the troops will be defeated.
2. v. To consider obligatory or required.
3. v. To consider reasonably due.
You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
634	history	©
1. n. The aggregate of past events.
History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.
2. n. The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
He teaches history at the university. History will not look kindly on these tyrants. He dreams of an invention that will make history.
3. n. A set of events involving an entity.
635	kid	©
1. n. A young goat.
He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
2. n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
3. n. Kidskin.
4. n. The meat of a young goat.
636	choice	©
1. n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
2. n. The power to choose.
She didn't leave us much choice.
3. n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
637	system
1. n. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
There are eight planets in the solar system.
2. n. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as opp
3. n. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
4. n. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
638	air	©
1. n. (meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
I'm going outside to get some air.
2. n. (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
3. n. (historical, medical) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
There was a tension in the air which made me suspect an approaching storm.
639	among	©
1. prep. (Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.))
How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
2. prep. Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
3. prep. Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.

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