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pro
Noun
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A pro is somebody who is very good at what they do; short for professional.
She's real pro who cares about her job.
When it comes to computers, Jacob's an old pro.
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A pro is somebody who is paid to play sports, sometimes as a teacher; short for professional.
He began his career as a golf pro in Indiana, and later taught golf to Bob Hope.
Pros in the Tour de France often ride custom bicycles that cost over $10,000.
She turned pro in March 2000 at 14, making her the youngest female professional in South Korea.
Pro basketball is one of the country's top sports.
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The pros and cons of a situation are the positive parts and the negative parts.
What are the pros and cons of going from one method to the other?
pro
Preposition
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If you are pro something, you like it, you support it, or you think it's a good idea.
Yet when they got into the war, he was very pro the country winning the war.
die
Verb
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If a person or animal dies, it stops living.
My father died last year in a car crash, I really miss him.
The song is about her brother who died young at the age of ten.
Many more people die of heart attacks than from violence.
She died from being sick.
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If something dies, it stops existing.
The idea died once the money was all gone.
Rock and roll will never die.
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If a machine dies, it stops working.
The car died suddenly on the highway.
My computer died on me over the weekend.
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If you're dying for something, you want it very much.
I'm dying for a chance to meet him.
die
Noun
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A die is a piece of metal or other hard material used to shape, cut, or mold a product.
die
Noun
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A die is a cube, each side of which is marked with a different number of spots from 1 to 6.