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"ref": "2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109",
"text": "These word association lists can also be used in pedagogical materials, such as mind-maps, word-searches, weekly spelling lists, etc.",
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"A word game consisting of a grid of letters, the aim of which is to find an array of given words hidden within the grid."
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"(games) A word game consisting of a grid of letters, the aim of which is to find an array of given words hidden within the grid."
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"word": "wordsearch"
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"word": "Wonderword"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a word game",
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"feminine"
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"word": "sopa de lletres"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "找詞遊戲"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎocí yóuxì",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "找词游戏"
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"sense": "a word game",
"word": "osmisměrka"
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"sense": "a word game",
"word": "woordzoeker"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a word game",
"word": "sanalaatikko"
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"sense": "a word game",
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"word": "mot caché"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Wörtersuchspiel"
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"sense": "a word game",
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"plural"
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"word": "parole intrecciate"
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"masculine",
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"word": "mots muchis"
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"sense": "a word game",
"word": "wykreślanka"
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"masculine"
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"word": "caça-palavras"
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"word": "sopa de letras"
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"(games) A word game consisting of a grid of letters, the aim of which is to find an array of given words hidden within the grid."
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"word": "wordsearch"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sopa de lletres"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "找詞遊戲"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎocí yóuxì",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "找词游戏"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "osmisměrka"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "woordzoeker"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a word game",
"word": "sanalaatikko"
},
{
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"sense": "a word game",
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"masculine"
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"word": "mot caché"
},
{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wörtersuchspiel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "parole intrecciate"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "mots muchis"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a word game",
"word": "wykreślanka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "caça-palavras"
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"sense": "a word game",
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"word": "sopa de letras"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "sopa de letras"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
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"word": "buscapalabras"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "a word game",
"tags": [
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"word": "chwilair"
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