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adjective·C1·8 letters
revealing something that was meant to be hidden
Example sentence
Crumbs on his shirt were a telltale sign of the theft.
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Give me a sentence with "telltale".
Crumbs on his shirt were a telltale sign of the theft.
That works. Now tell me where you last heard "telltale".
Other C1 words
- aboundexist in large numbers
- abstractiona general idea not tied to specifics
- accustomedfamiliar with something through habit
- acidiccontaining acid, sharp or sour
- acousticrelating to sound or hearing
- acousticallyin terms of sound quality
- acousticsthe science of sound, or a room's sound quality
- acrea unit of land area
- acutelyin a sharp or intense way
- adjoinbe next to and connected to
- adjoiningnext to and connected
- adjustableable to be changed or set differently
Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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