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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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n. official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing


Spelling Word: license
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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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n. imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value; art or occupation of a literary writer


Spelling Word: literature
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n. a loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; cloak as a symbol of authority; covering; envelope


Spelling Word: mantle
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n. tune; pleasing succession or arrangement of sounds; poem suitable for setting to music or singing


Spelling Word: melody
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n. a person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection; fugitive from the law; habitual criminal


Spelling Word: outlaw
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a. having precise or logical relevance; pertaining or relating


Spelling Word: pertinent
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n. plea; formal message requesting something


Spelling Word: petition
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n. any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle; small inflammatory dermal tumor or swelling


Spelling Word: pimple
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n. opinion formed without due examination; leaning toward one side of a question


Spelling Word: prejudice