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n. a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.


Spelling Word: mausoleum
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v. treat or use improperly; use to bad purpose; misapply; abuse; treat ill


Spelling Word: misuse
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a. so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded


Spelling Word: negligible
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n. house in which nuns reside; cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows


Spelling Word: nunnery
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n. place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies; building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of space


Spelling Word: observatory
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n. acceptance of the common faith.


Spelling Word: orthodoxy
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v. to converse in.


Spelling Word: parley
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n. tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings


Spelling Word: pathos
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n. unyielding adherence.


Spelling Word: pertinacity
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n. the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.


Spelling Word: petulance