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hop

If a small animal, bird, or insect hops, it moves by jumping on all or two of its feet at the same time:

pursue

to try very hard to persuade someone to accept a job:

inquiry

an official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened:

interplay

the effect that two or more things have on each other:

cutter

a fast, light boat, used for example as a patrol boat (= checking an area for crime or danger) or for carrying small loads:

cultivate

to try to develop and improve something:

crop

a group of people or things with something in common, that exist at a particular time:

fudge

to avoid making a decision or giving a clear answer about something:

dead end

a situation that has no hope of making progress:

simmer

If a disagreement or negative emotion …, it grows slowly stronger over a period of time and could become more serious at any moment:

virtue

an advantage or good thing:

preach

(especially of a priest or minister in a church) to give a religious speech:

stall

a small closed area within a farm building in which there is space for one animal to be kept

shred

a very small, thin piece that has been torn from something:

beak

a large nose:

grace

the quality of being pleasantly polite, or a willingness to be fair and honest:

divine

connected with a god, or like a god:

slide

to go into a worse state, often through lack of control or care:

depict

to represent or show something in a picture or story:

belittle

to make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important:

heir

a person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other person dies:

strand

a thin thread of something, often one of a few, twisted around each other to make a string or rope:

delicate

needing careful treatment, especially because easily damaged:

tilt

to (cause to) move into a sloping position:

sloping

lying at an angle to the horizontal so that some points on it are higher than others: