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  Academic Words Level 3 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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n. [立法] lawmaking; the act of making or enacting laws; law enacted by a legislative body


Spelling Word: legislation
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n. [槓桿,起槓桿作用的部件] a simple machine consisting of a rigid bar pivoted on a fixed point and used to transmit force


Spelling Word: lever
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n. [自由,放肆] official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing


Spelling Word: license
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n. [少數,少數民族] a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group


Spelling Word: minority
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n. [時尚,方式,模式] prevailing style; manner; a way of doing something; fashion or style


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n. [(文章的)段,段落,(報紙的)一則新聞] the distinct division of written or printed matter that begins on a new, usually indented line


Spelling Word: paragraph
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n. [妄想狂,偏執狂] psychological disorder by delusions; extreme, irrational distrust of others


Spelling Word: paranoia
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a. [永久的] everlasting; continuing without interruption


Spelling Word: perpetual
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n. [天文館,天象儀] apparatus or model representing the solar system; museum in which images of stars are projected onto a domed ceiling


Spelling Word: planetarium
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v. [跳進,投入,陷入] dive; submerge; become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically; throw oneself into a substance or place


Spelling Word: plunge