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Adolf
Proper noun
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Adolf is a male given name.
Hitler
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noun
German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
fund
Noun
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A fund is an amount of money kept for a specific purpose.
GM cannot afford to keep paying into the company pension fund.
Our fund-raising campaign has a target of $100,000.
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An organisation's funds are the money that it has.
The school is raising funds to pay for the new library.
The sports centre closed because of a lack of funds.
fund
Verb
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If you fund something, you give it money for its activities.
The project is jointly funded by the Government of Canada and the International Red Cross.
The university will no longer fund research into this drug.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
German
Proper noun
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German is the language in Germany.
German
Noun
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A German is a person who comes from Germany.
German
Adjective
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Something or someone that is German comes from Germany.
My friend Dagmar is German.
I bought a German car last year.
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Some people call themselves German because their family came from Germany, even if they have never been to Germany.
Mr. Schwartz is German, his grandmother came to the U.S. from Germany.
trade
Verb
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When two people trade, one gives something to the other and the other gives something to the first one. They make an exchange. Sometimes money is one of the things.
trade
Noun
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Trade is the buying and selling of goods.
Trade between Canada and the US is at its highest level in years.
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A trade is the act of trading.
I think I made a good trade.
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A trade is a job that needs a special skill to do.
The carpenters trade involves making things from wood.
He went to trade school to become a plumber.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
industry
Noun
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An industry is a kind of work that makes things.
Many people in this country have jobs in the clothing industry.
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Industry is the quality of working hard, trying hard and doing it well.
Because of her industry, she made a lot of money.