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v. عزل isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude


Spelling Word: sequester
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a. صدمة jolting; frightful; terrible; highly disturbing emotionally; highly offensive


Spelling Word: shocking
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n. البساطة easiness; plainness; absence of luxury or showiness; lack of good sense or intelligence; foolishness


Spelling Word: simplicity
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n. ملفوف any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to America; despicable person


Spelling Word: skunk
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n. المتهرب one who shirks work or responsibility; one who tries to evade military service in wartime


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n. حجر any rock or stone that is thin and flat for roofing or covering houses


Spelling Word: slate
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a. لاذع studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly or conceitedly smart; self-satisfied in any respect


Spelling Word: smug
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n. الرمح a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting by thrusting or throwing


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a. العقيمة barren; infertile; incapable of reproducing; having no imagination, new ideas, or energy


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v. خنق interrupt or cut off voice; keep in or hold back; suppress; conceal or hide


Spelling Word: stifle