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  Academic Words Level 5 - 2 - Spelling Practices
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n. [劊子手] one who executes, especially one who puts a condemned person to death; an executor


Spelling Word: executioner
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n. [勸告,規勸] act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good; language intended to incite and encourage


Spelling Word: exhortation
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a. [愛空想的] imaginative; not based on fact; dubious


Spelling Word: fanciful
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n. [兇猛,殘暴] savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty


Spelling Word: ferocity
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n. [爭吵] battle, assault, or quarrel with violence; wear away by rubbing


Spelling Word: fray
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n. [外觀,裝束] outward appearance or aspect; mode of dress; false appearance


Spelling Word: guise
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n. [水槽,街溝] channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; eaves channel; eaves trough


Spelling Word: gutter
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a. [討厭的,醜惡的] frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; offensive to moral sensibilities; despicable


Spelling Word: hideous
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n. [色調] color; appearance; particular gradation of color


Spelling Word: hue
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a. [不適宜的,不合適的] unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.


Spelling Word: inapt