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  Academic Words Level 5 - 2 - Spelling Practices
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v. [颜料,染料] color a material, especially by soaking in a coloring solution; take on or impart color


Spelling Word: dye
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v. [精细的,精心的,详尽的] work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly


Spelling Word: elaborate
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v. [委托,付托] give over something to another for care, protection, or performance; give as a trust to someone;


Spelling Word: entrust
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n. [建立,团体,公司] act of establishing; ratifying or ordaining; settlement; arranged order or system, especially a legal code


Spelling Word: establishment
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n. [节选,摘录] a passage from a literary work; an excerpt; something extracted


Spelling Word: extract
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a. [充足的,容易完成的,肤浅的] done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent


Spelling Word: facile
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n. [闹剧,嘲笑] broad comedy; ridiculous parade; foolish show


Spelling Word: farce
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a. [刺骨寒] intensely cold; lacking warmth; stiff and formal in manner


Spelling Word: frigid
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n. [犁沟,皱纹] trench in the earth made by a plow; any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; wrinkle on the face


Spelling Word: furrow
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n. [障碍物] something that holds back or causes problems with something else; obstacle


Spelling Word: hindrance