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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. the pain of a guilty conscience; feeling of deep regret


Spelling Word: remorse
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n. act of revolving; motion of a body around a fixed point or line; total or radical change in political organization


Spelling Word: revolution
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n. piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth


Spelling Word: rumour
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a. in a state of nature; wild; untamed; uncultivated; inhuman; brutal; not civilized; lacking polish; rude


Spelling Word: savage
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n. close examination; minute inspection; critical observation


Spelling Word: scrutiny
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n. seat, especially a royal seat; throne or rank; sitting before a fortified place; surrounding of a place by an army


Spelling Word: siege
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a. smooth; being such as to cause things to slip or slide


Spelling Word: slippery
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a. rotary; curled; moving in a zigzag course; moving in the shape of a coil


Spelling Word: spiral
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v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; walk unsteadily


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n. one who violates his allegiance and betrays his country


Spelling Word: traitor