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  Academic Words Level 1 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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n. approach; entry; entrance


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v. make a formal speech to; deal with or discuss; direct efforts or attention of


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v. accept; take on; raise; take into one's family


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n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements; a wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital


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ad. in any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event


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n. instinctive physical desire, especially one for food or drink


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n. a plane surface, as of the floor of a room; open space in a building; the enclosed space; extent; scope; range


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n. cellar; a part of a building that is below the level of the first floor


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a. fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance


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n. tied; held; committed; limit; constraint; leap; jump


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