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 5000 Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. a place where things may be put for safekeeping, as storehouse, warehouse, museum, or tomb


Spelling Word: repository
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n. action taken in return for injury or offense


Spelling Word: reprisal
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n. ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy


Spelling Word: resilience
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v. go backwards;  decline to inferior state; degenerate


Spelling Word: retrograde
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v. wither; decrease in size; become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying


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a. inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting


Spelling Word: skimpy
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n. man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk


Spelling Word: stuntman
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a. rude; sullenly ill-humored; gloomy; threatening, as of weather conditions


Spelling Word: surly
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a. used for feeling; relating to a sense of touch; perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible


Spelling Word: tactile
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n. wood or collection of trees, shrubs


Spelling Word: thicket