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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [暫緩] usually a short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment


Spelling Word: respite
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a. [旋轉的,轉動的] 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. [隱遁的,隔絕的] removed or remote from others; solitary; hidden or isolated


Spelling Word: secluded
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v. [裹屍,隱藏] hide from view; wrap for burial; shut off from sight; shelter


Spelling Word: shroud
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n. [安慰] comfort or relieve in sorrow, misfortune, or distress


Spelling Word: solace
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n. [嚴肅的,一本正經的] seriousness; gravity; religious or ritual ceremony


Spelling Word: solemnity
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v. [跨越] traverse the distance between; cover or extend over an area or time period


Spelling Word: span
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v. [請求,請願] plead; file a suit against


Spelling Word: sue
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n. [象徵主義,符號論] the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning; a system of symbols or representations


Spelling Word: symbolism
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n. [大頭釘,圖釘] small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head


Spelling Word: tack