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 5000 Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. mass for dead; song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as memorial


Spelling Word: requiem
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a. prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs


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n. form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly


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n. an animal that eats other decaying organic matter; someone who collects things that others have discarded


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n. deposit; matter deposited by some natural process


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a. seeming; outward or token appearance; show; figure; form


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v. cut or clip hair; a strip of something; remove by cutting or clipping


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n. small signboard outside the office; coarse beach gravel of little water; worn stones and pebbles


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n. a woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying; one whose occupation is to spin


Spelling Word: spinster
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a. dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy


Spelling Word: stodgy