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blended
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adjective
combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable
rate
Noun
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Speed. A rate is how fast something happens. Something can go at a fast rate or a slow rate.
The rate of water pouring out of the lake into the river is enough to make the lake empty in a year if it doesn't rain.
Her heart rate is 70 beats every minute.
If we keep writing pages at this rate we might have 2000 Simple English Wiktionary words by August 4.
rate
Verb
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Someone rates something when they decide how much its value is (how much it's worth).
I rate this book at six out of ten: it was not the best book.
mortgage
Noun
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A mortgage is a loan for the purpose of paying for a house, apartment, building, etc.
For five-year adjustable-rate mortgages, interest rates rose to 5.58 percent.
They can't refinance because the mortgage is higher than the real value of their home.
Unlike traditional 30-year fixed mortgages, these loans are often adjustable.
Credit card, auto loan, and mortgage lenders, along with bankers, are being much more careful about their borrowers.
By November she had missed two of the monthly mortgage payments on the three-bedroom home.
mortgage
Verb
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If you mortgage your home, you borrow money and promise to give up your home if you can't pay back the money.
Henderson's parents mortgaged their house in Cuthbert to buy a piano for the front parlor.
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If you mortgage your future, you enjoy something now even though it will cause problems in the future.
We're mortgaging our children's future instead of investing in it.