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Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
resurrection 
1
 | minor battle in war; minor or preliminary conflict or dispute |
| increase rapidly; rise quickly; soar |
| rising again; resumption of vigor; the act of rising from the dead or returning to life |
| the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations |
rudimentary
2
| stout; lacking sufficient ventilation; close; dull and boring |
| relating to basic facts or principles; being in the earliest stages of development; incipient |
| restraint; avoiding excesses |
| likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable |
sensibility
3
| hesitate as a result of conscience or principle |
| filthy; unethical or dishonest; dirty; foul; morally degraded |
| ability to feel or perceive; keen intellectual perception |
| spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space |
shell
4
| remove from the husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly |
| restraint; avoiding excesses |
| state of having been made use of; the act of using |
| request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application |
skirmish
5
| outskirts; usually residential area or community outlying a city |
| request earnestly; seek to obtain by persuasion or formal application |
| height; status; high level of respect |
| minor battle in war; minor or preliminary conflict or dispute |
sloping
6
| attractive; appealing to or attracting someone, even if wrong or inadvisable |
| put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly |
| the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations |
| slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon |
spear
7
| cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy |
| a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting by thrusting or throwing |
| increase rapidly; rise quickly; soar |
| prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs |
spurious
8
| restraint; avoiding excesses |
| false; counterfeit; forged; illogical |
| bring about; arouse; inspire; activate |
| filthy; unethical or dishonest; dirty; foul; morally degraded |
swarm
9
| in time past; long ago; in old time |
| move or gather in large numbers; be overrun |
| slanting; inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon |
| increase rapidly; rise quickly; soar |
symbolism
10
| bring about; arouse; inspire; activate |
| a layer of earth's surface; a layer of society |
| having no residents; unsettled; unoccupied |
| the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations |