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1.Noun

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    Buddhist temple

    A place where Buddhist monks enshrine a statue of the Buddha and discipline their minds by teaching and learning their religious doctrine.

    Korean definition: 스님들이 불상을 모시고 불교를 가르치고 배우며 도를 닦는 곳.

    • On Buddha's Birthday, many Buddhist believers visited temples.

    • Mr. Kim left the secular world and entered a temple to sort out his thoughts.

2.Noun

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    prostration bow

    A type of greeting where one bends his/her body as a show of respect.

    Korean definition: 남에게 공경하는 뜻으로 몸을 굽혀 하는 인사.

    • On Lunar New Year's Day, the children who went to Grandmother's house respectfully bowed to the elders.

    • On graduation day, the students bowed to the teacher who had taught them for a year.

3.NounSino-Korean: 節

  1. 1

    paragraph; passage

    One of many segments in a piece of writing.

    Korean definition: 글의 내용을 여러 단락으로 서술할 때의 한 단락.

    • I completed a short piece of writing made up of three paragraphs.

    • Jisu is writing a serialized newspaper column of three or four paragraphs.

  2. 2

    clause

    A unit containing a subject and a predicate that cannot be used independently but as part of a sentence.

    Korean definition: 주어와 술어를 갖추었으나 독립하여 쓰이지 못하고 다른 문장의 한 성분으로 쓰이는 단위.

    • A single sentence may contain several clauses.

    • A clause ending in a nominalizing ending can be used as a subject or object.

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    verse

    One of two or more subsections into which the lyrics of a song is divided.

    Korean definition: 둘 이상의 가사가 붙어 있는 한 노래에서 이를 나눈 각각의 부분.

    • My younger sibling memorized a whole long song that runs to four verses.

    • I got the lyrics of the first and second verses mixed up and sang the wrong words.

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