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 5000 Words Level 1 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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a. preposterous; ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable; foolish


Spelling Word: absurd
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n. partner in crime; associate in wrongdoing


Spelling Word: accomplice
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a. having no name; having an unknown or unacknowledged name


Spelling Word: anonymous
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n. place of refuge or shelter; protection


Spelling Word: asylum
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a. fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance


Spelling Word: bizarre
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n. a contest between antagonists; contest or fight; a period of time spent in a particular way, as in illness


Spelling Word: bout
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n. a piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction


Spelling Word: brake
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n. the channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture


Spelling Word: bypass
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n. monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having lion head, goat body, and dragon tail


Spelling Word: chimera
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a. of a person, slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft; rounded, and plump


Spelling Word: chubby