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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. bellow; rumble; make a loud noise


Spelling Word: roar
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n. landscape; view; view or views of natural features, especially in open country


Spelling Word: scenery
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n. range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions; extent; bound


Spelling Word: scope
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ad. apparently; appearing to be something, especially when this is not true


Spelling Word: seemingly
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n. unanticipated or sudden check in progress; change from better to worse; obstacle, delay, or disadvantage


Spelling Word: setback
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v. shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters


Spelling Word: shiver
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v. inhale air than immediately expel it; make deep single respiration, especially to express  fatigue, exhaustion, grief


Spelling Word: sigh
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n. paper cut to the right size for writing letters; writing materials and office supplies


Spelling Word: stationery
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v. melt, such as snow and ice; defrost; warm weather following a freeze


Spelling Word: thaw
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n. paper; dissertation; an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument


Spelling Word: thesis