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a. old-fashioned; obsolete


Spelling Word: dated
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a. bright or brilliant; extremely attractive or exciting


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v. become worse; decline; fall


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a. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste; greatly pleasing or entertaining


Spelling Word: delicious
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v. make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties; erase


Spelling Word: demagnetize
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n. reliance; lack of independence or self-sufficiency


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n. a dish served as the last course of a meal


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n. ultimate goal; the place to which one is going or directed


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n. act of making or arriving at a decision; putting an end to; termination


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n. harm; damage; injury; something that causes damage, harm, or loss


Spelling Word: detriment