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  Academic Words Level 4 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [目論見書] summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature


Spelling Word: prospectus
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v. [放射] spread out; effuse; issue or emerge in rays or waves


Spelling Word: radiate
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v. [強化] give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; enhance


Spelling Word: reinforce
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v. [スコーチ] burn superficially;  parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; affect painfully with heat; burn


Spelling Word: scorch
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n. [軽蔑] extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain


Spelling Word: scorn
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n. [シャンティ] a small, badly built house, usually made from pieces of wood or cardboard, in which poor people live


Spelling Word: shanty
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n. [犠牲] bush; a large plant with a rounded shape formed from many small branches


Spelling Word: shrub
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v. [よろめき] sway; walk as if unable to control one's movements


Spelling Word: stagger
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v. [滅菌] make sterile or unproductive; impoverish, as land; exhaust of fertility.


Spelling Word: sterilize
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v. [潜水] sink; immerse; put underwater


Spelling Word: submerge