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Graveyard

/ɡrˈeɪˌvjɑrd/
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(noun) A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

Working so long on the graveyard shift made his health suffer badly.
He was buried in this graveyard.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old church is surrounded by a small ____ where many of the town's founding families are buried.

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