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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [复活] rising again; resumption of vigor; the act of rising from the dead or returning to life


Spelling Word: resurrection
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a. [旋转的,转动的] turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis


Spelling Word: rotary
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a. [显著的,突出的,卓越的] prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs


Spelling Word: salient
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v. [踌躇,忧郁] hesitate as a result of conscience or principle


Spelling Word: scruple
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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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a. [刚毅的,朴素的,纪律严格的,斯巴达的] avoiding luxury and comfort; sternly disciplined


Spelling Word: spartan
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a. [巨大的,大得惊人的] astonishing; wonderful; amazing, especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation


Spelling Word: stupendous
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n. [郊区] outskirts; usually residential area or community outlying a city


Spelling Word: suburb
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n. [晒斑,晒黑] redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun


Spelling Word: sunburn
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n. [象征主义,符号论] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations


Spelling Word: symbolism