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820	ways	©
1. n. plural of way
2. n. (informal, usually preceded by a) A distance.
	way
1. n. To do with a place or places.:
2. n. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
3. n. A means to enter or leave a place.
821	completely	©
1. adv. (manner) In a complete manner
Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number 2 pencil.
2. adv. (degree) To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
He is completely mad.
822	forces	©
1. n. plural of force
2. n. (military) troops (plural only).
3. n. (music) the orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production (nearly always used in plural form only).
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of force
	force
1. n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
2. n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
3. n. Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
4. n. (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
823	asking
1. v. present participle of ask
2. n. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
His asking was greeted with silence.
3. n. (rare in the singular) A request, or petition.
	ask
1. v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
2. v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
3. v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
824	check	©
1. n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
2. n. An inspection or examination.
I don't know if she will be there, but it's worth a check.
3. n. A control; a limit or stop.
checks and balances
825	doctor
1. n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-n
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
2. n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
3. n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
4. n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
826	health	©
1. n. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
I think she has autism, ADHD or some other mental health problem.
2. n. A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project.
3. n. Physical condition.
827	bill	©
1. n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, h
2. n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
3. n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
4. n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
5. n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
828	following	©
1. adj. Coming next, either in sequence or in time.
See the following section.
2. adj. About to be specified.
The following words have no definition...
3. adj. (of a wind) Blowing in the direction of travel.
	follow
1. v. To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
2. v. To go or come after in a sequence.
829	strange	©
1. adj. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
2. adj. Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
3. adj. (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
830	national	©
1. adj. Of or having to do with a nation.
2. adj. (by extension) Of or having to do with a country (sovereign state).
Import tariffs were raised for the national interest.
3. n. A subject of a nation.
The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty.
831	forward	©
1. adj. Toward the front or at the front.
The fire was confined to the forward portion of the store.
the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet
2. adj. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
1999: "Would you think it forward of me to kiss you?" asked Tristran. — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 44 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
832	army	©
1. n. A large, highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground (rather than air or naval) operations.
The army was sent in to quell the uprising.
2. n. Used absolutely for that entire branch of the armed forces.
The army received a bigger share of this year's budget increase than the navy or air force.
3. n. (often capitalized) Within a vast military, a very large tactical contingent (e.g. a number of divisions).
833	played	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of play
	play
1. v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
2. v. To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
3. v. To compete against, in a game.
834	catch	©
1. n. The act of seizing or capturing.
The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
2. n. The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
The player made an impressive catch.
Nice catch!
835	it'll
1. contraction. it shall
2. contraction. it will
	it
1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
	will
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
836	college	©
1. n. (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
2. n. (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
3. n. (politics) An electoral college.
4. n. An academic institution.
837	including
1. prep. Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.
All you have to do is to fill in the details, including your name and address and the amount you wish to give.
2. prep. (rare, nonstandard) Introducing a finite clause.
3. v. present participle of include
	include
1. v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
2. v. To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
838	beat	©
1. n. A stroke; a blow.
2. n. A pulsation or throb.
a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
3. n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
4. n. A rhythm.
839	imagine	©
1. v. to form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
Try to imagine a pink elephant.
2. v. to believe in something created by one's own mind
She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
3. v. to assume

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