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  Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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n. [月桂冠] honors conferred for some notable achievement; credit


Spelling Word: laurels
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n. [倦怠感] general sense of depression or unease; vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness


Spelling Word: malaise
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n. [堀] deep wide ditch; ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water


Spelling Word: moat
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v. [金型] model; fit tightly, follow the contours of; frame; make something for a specific shape; become moldy


Spelling Word: mold
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n. [ニックが] shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface; an exact point or critical moment


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a. [パック] crowded to capacity; compressed


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n. [半島] a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land


Spelling Word: peninsula
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a. [後悔] feeling or expressing deep regret for misdeeds


Spelling Word: penitent
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n. [ファントム] something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; ghost or apparition; sprite


Spelling Word: phantom
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n. [はがき] card for sending messages by post without an envelope


Spelling Word: postcard