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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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v. [hồi] recover; find and bring in; get back


Spelling Word: retrieve
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a. [man rợ] in a state of nature; wild; untamed; uncultivated; inhuman; brutal; not civilized; lacking polish; rude


Spelling Word: savage
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v. [thở dài] inhale air than immediately expel it; make deep single respiration, especially to express  fatigue, exhaustion, grief


Spelling Word: sigh
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n. [xương] framework; an internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape


Spelling Word: skeleton
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n. [khán giả] observer; audience; one who looks on


Spelling Word: spectator
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a. [cũ] having lost freshness; lacking originality or spontaneity


Spelling Word: stale
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n. [chiến thuật] plan for attaining a particular goal; action calculated to achieve some end


Spelling Word: tactic
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a. [thuần hóa] domesticated; very restrained or quiet; make less strong or intense; soften


Spelling Word: tame
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n. [thủy triều] periodic rise and fall of the sea level


Spelling Word: tide
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v. [kéo] draw or pull behind by a chain or line


Spelling Word: tow