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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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a. [急性] quickly perceptive; keen; having a sharp point or tip; extremely sharp or severe


Spelling Word: acute
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v. [悪化] worsen; make worse or more troublesome


Spelling Word: aggravate
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a. [本格的] not counterfeit or copied; valid; trustworthy


Spelling Word: authentic
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a. [破産] penniless, without any money; financially ruined


Spelling Word: bankrupt
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v. [利点] tie, or confine with a cord, band, or chain; make fast; contract; cohere or stick together


Spelling Word: bind
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v. [バインド] make white or colorless; blanch


Spelling Word: bleach
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a. [暗い] cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable


Spelling Word: bleak
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v. [ひな] think long and anxiously;  be in a state of gloomy, serious thought


Spelling Word: brood
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n. [肉屋] one whose job is to kill animals for food; one who kills in large numbers; vendor, especially on a train or in theater


Spelling Word: butcher
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n. [キャンバス] heavy closely woven fabric; background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative


Spelling Word: canvas