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  Academic Words Level 5 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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a. detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad


Spelling Word: abominable
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v. increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth; accumulate over time


Spelling Word: accrue
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n. something added to a substance, esp. food, to improve it or to preserve it; supplement


Spelling Word: additive
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n. natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship; relationship by marriage


Spelling Word: affinity
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a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote


Spelling Word: aloof
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n. gift giver; a person who gives people or institutions financial help


Spelling Word: benefactor
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a. kindly; favorable; not malignant


Spelling Word: benign
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n. covering; umbrella; a cover fixed over a seat or bed


Spelling Word: canopy
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n. destruction of life; the savage and excessive killing of many people


Spelling Word: carnage
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a. Of or about pottery, relating to the art of making earthenware; as, [___] products; [___] ornaments for ceilings.


Spelling Word: ceramic