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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [嫌恶,反感] extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense


Spelling Word: repugnance
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n. [崇敬,敬礼] profound respect with fear and affection, as for a holy place; showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy


Spelling Word: reverence
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n. [肋骨,伞骨] one of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax


Spelling Word: rib
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n. [聪慧,洞察力] quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness


Spelling Word: sagacity
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v. [剥落,脱壳] remove from the husk; separate kernels from cob; defeat decisively; hit the pitches of hard and regularly


Spelling Word: shell
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v. [杀,残杀] put to death with a weapon, or by violence; kill; put an end to; destroy; overwhelm, as with laughter or love


Spelling Word: slay
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n. [树懒,怠惰,懒惰] laziness; apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue; any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals


Spelling Word: sloth
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n. [至高无上的权力] dominance; power to dominate or defeat


Spelling Word: supremacy
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a. [胆怯的,羞怯的] shy; craven; lacking self-confidence; shy


Spelling Word: timid
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v. [输血,充满] pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; transfer by pouring


Spelling Word: transfuse