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  Academic Words Level 2 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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a. not large enough to consider or notice; lacking in importance; trivial


Spelling Word: insignificant
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n. direction; teaching; activities of educating or instructing


Spelling Word: instruction
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a. opposite; reversed in order, nature, or effect; turned upside down


Spelling Word: inverse
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n. a rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime


Spelling Word: limestone
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a. deliberately harmful; spiteful; proceeding from extreme hatred


Spelling Word: malicious
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n. branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies


Spelling Word: mechanics
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n. one whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars


Spelling Word: millionaire
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n. sheep; flesh of a sheep;  loose woman; prostitute


Spelling Word: mutton
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n. unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound


Spelling Word: ounce
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n. act of extreme violence or viciousness; offense


Spelling Word: outrage