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960	learned	©
1. adj. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
2. v. (US, and dialectal English) simple past tense and past participle of learn
3. adj. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
	learn
1. v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
2. v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
3. v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
4. v. To be studying.
961	interesting	©
1. adj. Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
2. adj. (euphemistic) strange or unusual, in a negative sense.
The stew had an interesting flavor.
3. v. present participle of interest
	interest
1. n. (finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
2. n. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
3. n. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
962	lived	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of live
2. adj. (in combination) Having a specified duration of life.
a short-lived recycling scheme
	live
1. v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
2. v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
3. v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
963	hasn't
1. v. Has not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513).
	has
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of have
	have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
	not
1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2. adv. To no degree.
964	allowed	©
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of allow
	allow
1. v. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
2. v. To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
3. v. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
965	wake	©
1. v. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
2. v. (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
3. v. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
966	box	©
1. n. Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
2. n. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
3. n. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
a box of books
4. n. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
967	accept	©
1. v. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. v. To admit to a place or a group.
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
3. v. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
968	bottle	©
1. n. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
Beer is often sold in bottles.
2. n. The contents of such a container.
I only drank a bottle of beer.
3. n. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
969	board	©
1. n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
4. n. (Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.)
970	troops	©
1. n. plural of troop
2. n. military personnel in uniform
There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of troop
	troop
1. n. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
2. n. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
3. n. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
4. n. Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
5. n. (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
971	fool	©
1. n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
2. n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
3. n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
972	lucky	©
1. adj. (of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune
a lucky adventurer
The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
2. adj. Producing, or resulting in, good fortune
a lucky mistake
973	education	©
1. n. The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Good education is essential for a well-run society.
2. n. Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
He has had a classical education.
The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.
974	speaking	©
1. adj. Used in speaking.
one's normal speaking voice
2. adj. Expressive; eloquent.
The sight was more speaking than any speech could be.
3. adj. Involving speaking.
	speak
1. v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
2. v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
975	papers
1. n. plural of paper.
2. n. (plural only) Official documents or identification, as a passport.
He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.
3. n. (plural only) A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of paper
	paper
1. n. A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
2. n. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3. n. Wallpaper.
4. n. Wrapping paper.
5. n. (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
976	pull
1. n. An act of pulling (applying force)
He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
2. n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
977	recent	©
1. adj. Having happened a short while ago.
2. adj. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
3. adj. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
The cause has several hundred recent donors.
I met three recent graduates at the conference.
978	ring
1. n. (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
2. n. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
3. n. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
4. n. (British) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
5. n. (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
979	worried	©
1. adj. Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of worry
	worry
1. v. (intransitive) To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
2. v. Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
3. v. To harass; to irritate or distress.

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