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circle
Noun
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A circle is a round shape.
Please put your chairs in a circle.
The dog was running in circles.
circle
Verb
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To circle something is to move around it.
The earth circles the sun once a year.
Using your pencil, please circle the correct answer.
arc
Noun
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An arc is part of a circle.
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Electricity jumping from one place to another. This is very bright and looks like lightning.
arc
Verb
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If something arcs, it makes an electrical curve.
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If something arcs, it goes along a curved path.
path
Noun
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A path is a way to get to a place. It is like a small road, often made of dirt.
That path leads into the woods.
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A path is the way something moves.
The planets follow an elliptical path.
generation
Noun
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A generation, is all the people or things of about the same age.
My father belonged to a generation of travellers who saw the world before there was a McDonalds on every corner.
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A generation is the average time between one when group of people were born and when their children were born, roughly 20–30 years.
During previous generations, travel was not so easy.
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A class or type of objects usually developed from an earlier type.
A new generation of personal computers is about to hit the stores.
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Generation is the creation of something, often electricity.
The increase in new power generation has not kept up with demand for electricity.