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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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n. [经度,经线] an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles


Spelling Word: longitude
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n. [恶运,灾祸,不幸的情况] bad fortune or ill luck; bad luck


Spelling Word: misfortune
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a. [巨大的,可怕的] marvelous; strange; extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness


Spelling Word: monstrous
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n. [疏忽,没能尽力的] neglect; failure to take reasonable care; state or quality of being negligent


Spelling Word: negligence
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n. [讨厌的人,讨厌的事] something that annoys or gives trouble and vexation; something that is offensive or noxious


Spelling Word: nuisance
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v. [做错事,犯罪,使人不快,伤感情] strike against; attack; assail; make angry; affront


Spelling Word: offend
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n. [子孙,后代] descendant; the young of an animal


Spelling Word: offspring
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n. [征兆,预兆] any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil


Spelling Word: omen
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a. [被逐出的(人),被遗弃的(人)] cast out; degraded; excluded from a society


Spelling Word: outcast
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v. [无意中听到,从旁听到] hear more of anything than was intended to be heard; hear again


Spelling Word: overhear