Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Spelling Practices

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(1) n. a gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor

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(2) n. defamatory statement; the act of writing something that smears a person's character

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(3) a. lead-colored; black and blue; discolored, as from a bruise; extremely angry

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(4) n. any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory insects of the family Acrididae

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(5) n. a short poem of songlike; expressing deep personal emotion

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(6) n. grandeur; splendor; grand or imposing beauty

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(7) v. lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of; preside over

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(8) n. small concavity; a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it

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(9) a. capable of being molded; capable of being shaped or formed; easily influenced

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(10) v. penetrate or puncture by a sharp and slender thing