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Refuge

/rˈɛfjudʒ/
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(noun) A state of safety, protection or shelter.

My room is an inviolable refuge.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The hikers took ____ in a mountain hut as the storm intensified around them.

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