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association
Noun
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An association is a way that two things are similar, belong together, or are connected or related.
I don't see any association between what happened to you and what happened to me.
I suspect there is an association between the weather and the number who are sick.
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An association is a group of people who have a common goal or interest.
The NBA stands for the "National Basketball Association."
I have been a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
All the teachers were at an association meeting.
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Association is the when you associate (spend time with certain people).
I'm afraid your association with those wild people will get you in trouble.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
reproductive
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adjective
(= generative)
producing new life or offspring
the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions
the reproductive or generative organs
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.
family
Noun
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A family is a group of people with a blood or marriage relation.
My parents and my two brothers are my family.
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A language family is a group of languages that is believed to have came from the same language.
The Indo-European language family is a family of languages that is spoken by 3 billion people.
health
Noun
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If you talk about the health of a person or animal, you are talking about whether they are sick or not.
The doctors believe that the disease will not be a serious danger to public health.
Before you start exercising, you should be in good health.
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If you have health you are not sick (do not have disease) and are not hurt.