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- kind
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"Kind of" means "somewhat" or "in some way." If you're kind of hungry, you are a bit hungry and you would like to eat something, but you are not super hungry. You could wait for a while. We often use "kind of" when we can't or don't really want to explain the degree of something or the exact way that something is.
I liked the shoes, but they were kind of expensive and I knew my mom wouldn't buy them.I didn't like my teacher at first, but she's really kind of nice.Josh is a nice kid, but he's kind of a baby. |
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