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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. [不安寧的,好動的] never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; eager for change; discontented


Spelling Word: restless
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v. [繞轉,旋轉,考慮,細想] turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; rotate; move in curved path round a center; pass in cycles


Spelling Word: revolve
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a. [純粹的,,絕對的,透明的,峻峭的] very thin or transparent; very steep; absolute or pure


Spelling Word: sheer
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v. [(從表面)輕輕掠過,輕擦而過] pass near-surface of; brush the surface of; glide swiftly along the surface of; read in order to get principal facts


Spelling Word: skim
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v. [強奪,攫取] grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly


Spelling Word: snatch
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a. [嚴肅的,莊嚴的,隆重的] serious; somber; deeply earnest, serious, and sober


Spelling Word: solemn
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v. [濺,潑] cause fluid to scatter in flying masses; strike and dash about, as water, mud


Spelling Word: splash
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n. [摞,疊,大堆,谷堆] an orderly pile; heap; a large number; arrange in a pile


Spelling Word: stack
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n. [標準成分的(金或銀),道地的,純正的,英國貨幣] any English coin of standard value; coined money


Spelling Word: sterling
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n. [(達到目的)手段,戰術] plan for attaining a particular goal; action calculated to achieve some end


Spelling Word: tactic