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people
Noun
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A people is a group of men, women, and children with a shared culture, history, and language.
Although Lebanon and Syria are two countries they are one people.
This people shares some characteristics with the aborigines.
people
Verb
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If a place is peopled, people live there.
It's a wonderful country peopled with amazing cooks and dancers.
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If you people a story, movie, etc. you fill it with people.
He liked to people his books with simple folk.
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.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
ethical
Adjective
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An ethical issue, problem, etc. relates to questions of good or bad, right or wrong.
Doctors have to think about both the medical and ethical parts of the problem.
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If something is ethical, it is good, not bad or wrong. Often, this is based on formal philosophy. Often, what is ethical is based on rules of a group or profession (kind of job).
Is it really ethical to eat meat?
treatment
Noun
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A treatment is an action, usually by a doctor, to make somebody healthy.
He has had treatments every day since he hurt his neck.
My sister is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
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The treatment that you give someone or something is the way that you act toward it.
The treatment that I have received since beginning this job has been terrible. My boss yells at me every day and nobody is friendly at all.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
animal
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noun
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
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adjective
(= carnal, fleshly, sensual)
marked by the appetites and passions of the body
animal instincts
carnal knowledge
fleshly desire
a sensual delight in eating
music is the only sensual pleasure without vice