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 4000 CELPIP (P Q) - Spelling Practices
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v. парализовать make powerless and unable to function; disable


Spelling Word: paralyze
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n. явление appearance; anything visible, in matter or spirit; an extraordinary or very remarkable person or thing


Spelling Word: phenomenon
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n. планетарий apparatus or model representing the solar system; museum in which images of stars are projected onto a domed ceiling


Spelling Word: planetarium
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n. пластины a flat piece of metal; thick sheet of metal; small, usually circular, the vessel of metal or wood for the food table


Spelling Word: plate
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a. полярные pertaining to one of the poles of the earth; of the poles


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n. фарфор ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic


Spelling Word: porcelain
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n. постулат essential premise; the underlying assumption


Spelling Word: postulate
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v. наброситься attacks suddenly; seize something swiftly and eagerly; leap into the air intending to seize someone or something


Spelling Word: pounce
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n. преимущество fact, state, or right of preceding; priority; previous occurrence, or existence before; preceding act or speech


Spelling Word: precedence
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ad. преимущественно mainly; much greater in number or influence


Spelling Word: predominantly