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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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n. gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; unobserved or imperceptible progress; slip or error; failing in duty


Spelling Word: lapse
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n. fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant; thread made from fibers of the flax plant


Spelling Word: linen
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a. clearly apparent to understanding; obvious


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n. standard or unit of measurement; self-contained component of a system; unit of education covering a single topic


Spelling Word: module
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a. slightly wet; damp or humid


Spelling Word: moist
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v. express or to feel grief or sorrow; grieve; be sorrowful


Spelling Word: mourn
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v. call together; cause to come together; gather; summon up


Spelling Word: muster
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v. preoccupy the mind of excessively; besiege; compass about; dominate the thoughts of someone


Spelling Word: obsess
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n. any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil


Spelling Word: omen
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a. cast out; degraded; excluded from a society


Spelling Word: outcast