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individual
Adjective
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An individual person or thing is looked at separately from others.
This office assists whole families rather than individual family members.
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An individual right, need, etc. belongs to one person, not to a group.
The government should protect not only individual rights but also group values.
individual
Noun
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An individual is a single person, looked at separately from others.
One of the most difficult parts of growing up is learning to form your own ideas--to become an individual.
A country must balance the rights of individuals with the rights of groups.
work
Verb
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If you work, you do a job, usually for money.
My father works at Microsoft.
I got to work at 7:30 each morning.
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If you work you are doing something that needs effort.
I worked on my school paper all night long.
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If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do.
If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this.
I'm glad our plan worked.
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How something works is how it does what it does.
I would like to know more about how cars work.
The rules here just do not work that way.
work
Noun
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Your work is your job.
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Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard.
Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work.
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Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something.
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A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made.
The painting was a great work of art.
Shakespeare wrote many literary works.