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flesh
Noun
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Flesh is the meat on an animal or in a fruit.
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Flesh is a person's skin.
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Flesh color is the color of a white person's skin.
flesh
Verb
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To fatten.
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To add details.
The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
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To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
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.
spirit
Noun
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A spirit is a being that has no physical body, and cannot usually be seen or touched.
The people on the island believed in many gods and spirits that affected life.
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A spirit is a part of you that cannot be seen or touched. Often this is important to religion and different from the soul (religions do not agree what the difference is).
They tried to talk to the spirit of their dead mother through a medium.
The preacher claimed the soul was the mind but the spirit was something more special.
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If you have spirit, you are very excited about something or a very strong supporter.
People with school spirit always cheer for their schools team.
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The spirit of a statement or rule is the idea or purpose for it.
What she did fit the spirit of the law, even though it brought the law as it was written.
In the spirit of fairness I let the younger children break some rules.
The spirit of the agreement was that we would have equal shares.
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A spirit is a volatile liquid, like alcohol.
spirit
Verb
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If you spirit something, you carry it away, usually in secret or mystery.
spirit
Proper noun
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Another name for the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost).