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reflection [noncount] careful thinking about something
She had no time for reflection.
On/Upon reflection
[=after thinking about it], I decided to
accept their offer.

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全仏オープンテニス,本日は女子シングルス準決勝。午後10時開始なので,
試合を最初から観戦できるという点ではありがたいのですが。。。
プリスコワvsハレプ戦が事実上の決勝戦といえますが,第2試合なので,
今日も夜更かしをしなくてはなりません。
昨日の錦織選手の試合,応援していましたが,残念ながら,逆転負け。
妄想していた決勝カードは,ティエムvs錦織戦だったのですが。。。
ドロップショット禁止なら,ティエム選手が一番強いのではないかという
イメージがあります。ナダル戦,とても楽しみですわ。


TOEFL ITP対策

村川久子監修 SUNDAI GLOBAL CLUB著
TOEFL ITPテスト完全制覇』The Japan Times, 2016年。


Chapter1 Day 5/6

TOEIC L&R対策

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Heroes and Giants Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller dramatically changed the world's perception of
individuals with disabilities.


(from http://www.perkins.org/history/people/anne-sullivan)

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pill a small, rounded object that you swallow and that contains
medicine, vitamins, etc. diet pills
She took a pill for her headache.
The drug is available as a pill or a liquid.


ointment [count, noncount] a smooth substance that is rubbed on
the skin to help heal a wound or to reduce pain or discomfort
You should put some ointment on that cut.


gargle
to clean your throat and mouth with a liquid that you move around in
your throat and then spit out
[no obj] He gargled with salt water.
She gargle every morning.

[+ obj] He gargled the salt water, then spit out.
a liquid used for gargling
[count] a medicinal gargle used for sore throats
[noncount] (Brit) treating a sore throat with gargle
spit [+ obj]  to force (something , such as food or liquid) from your mouth
- often + out She spit out her gum before class.
He took a taste of the soup and quickly spat/spit it out.
- sometimes used figuratively Our manager was spitting blood/venom
[=was extremely angry] when he found out what had happened.
I'm so angry, I could spit nails!


shot [count] chiefly US an act of putting something (such as medicine or
vaccine) into the body with a needle : injection  a flu shot
- often + of a shot of morphine/Novocain
needle a very thin, pointed steel tube that is pushed through the skin
so that something (such as a drug) can be taken from it
a hypodermic needle
morphine [noncount] a powerful drug made from opium that is used to
reduce pain  a shot/dose of morphine
Novocain [noncount] a drug that causes part of your body to feel no pain
and that is used especially by dentists
hypodermic used for putting fluids into or taking fluids out of the body
by going under the skin a hypodermic syringe
a hypodermic needle [=a thin, hollow needle used for giving people injections]
syringe [count] a device made a hollow tube and a needle that is used to
force fluids into or take fluids out of the body
hollow having nothing inside : not solid a hollow log


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