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roast
Verb
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If you roast vegetables or meat, you cook it over a fire or in an oven for a long time.
I will roast the chicken in the oven.
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If you roast someone, you tell off someone very harshly.
You just got roasted!
roast
Noun
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A roast is a piece of meat that is cooked.
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A roast is a party where food is cooked over a fire.
heap
Noun
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A heap is a big pile of things, usually thrown in the pile and not in any order.
When we moved into our new house, the old owners had left a heap of garbage inside for us to deal with.
I dumped all of my things into a heap on my bed so I could start them.
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A heap is a lot of something.
If that dog eats my shoes again, he will be in a heap of trouble.
She earned heaps of money when she was 20 and now she doesn't have to work for the rest of her life.
heap
Verb
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If you heap something, you pile it up high.
is my favorite dessert. I heaped it so high on my plate that it looked like a little mountain.
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If you heap something, you give a lot of it.
The police heaped the children with praise after they would not get in a car with someone they did not know.
Her boss surprised her by heaping the blame for the project onto her, when really, the problems were his own fault.