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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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n. [荒谬] quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment; logical contradiction


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v. [激怒,打扰] cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb


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n. [极大痛苦] the extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; last struggle of life; death struggle


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n. [忠诚] loyalty to a nation, sovereign, or cause; fidelity to any person or thing; devotion


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v. [固定,锚] secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; narrate or coordinate


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n. [天文学] branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole


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v. [系,缚,附加] fasten; annex; be in contact with


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n. [传记] an account of the series of events making up a person's life;  accounts of people's life


Spelling Word: biography
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n. [出纳员] one who has charge of money; cash keeper


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n. [开始,构思] beginning; forming of an idea; an act of conceiving


Spelling Word: conception