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1. breed noun [ C ] US /brid/ 9. shire noun UK /ʃaɪər/ US /ʃaɪr/

a particular type of animal or plant: [ C ] uk old use a county, now used in combination
the different breeds of dogs in the names of many British counties:
Yorkshire
A breed is also a type of person or thing: Oxfordshire
Authentic blues singers are a dying breed (= there the shires [ plural ] uk
are not many of them left).
breed the central rural counties of England, such as
verb [ I/T ] US /brid/ past tense and past Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire
participle bred /bred/
10. tended verb US /tend/
tend verb (BE LIKELY)
to keep animals or plants for the purpose of
producing young animals or plants, often for
chosen qualities:
[ I ] to be likely to happen or to have a particular
[ T ] He bred hogs and cows and sold the meat
characteristic or effect:
and dairy products.
We tend to eat at home.
Children tend to be like their parents.
When animals breed, they reproduce.
tend verb (CARE)
2. go off phrasal verb with go US /ɡoʊ/ verb present
tense goes, present participle going, past tense
went /went/ , past participle gone /ɡɔn, ɡɑn/ [ T ] to care for something or someone:
He carefully tends his garden all summer.
to explode, or to fire bullets:
11. tucked hidden or difficult to find:
The deer ran away just before the hunter's gun
away Van's house is tucked away at the end of the road.
went off.
12. wag verb [ I/T ] US /wæɡ/ -gg-
If a special signal or an electronic device goes
off, it warns people that there is danger or that (esp. of a tail or finger) to move from side to side or
something is wrong: up and down, usually quickly and repeatedly, or to
What do they do if the metal detector goes off? cause this to happen:
[ T ] When she came in, the dog sprang to its feet
3. jools ...
and wagged its tail.
4. miller noun [ C ] UK /ˈmɪl.ər/ US /ˈmɪl.ɚ/

a person, especially in the past, who owned or

was in charge of a mil
5. oddity someone or something that is strange and
unusual:
As one of the few women in engineering in the
1950s, she was considered an oddity.
6. outlandish very strange or unusual : extremely different from
what is normal or expected
7. queer adjective [ -er/-est only ] US /kwɪər/

dated unusual or strange:

She had a queer expression on her face.
8. remain he remained on visiting terms with his relatives.
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