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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to distresses of others; unyielding


Spelling Word: relentless
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n. likeness; similarity in appearance or external or superficial details


Spelling Word: resemblance
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a. relating to skill of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere in language


Spelling Word: rhetorical
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a. very thin or transparent; very steep; absolute or pure


Spelling Word: sheer
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a. of or relating to the sun


Spelling Word: solar
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n. model; sample; an example regarded as typical of its class


Spelling Word: specimen
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v. refer for judgment or consideration; hand in; present


Spelling Word: submit
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n. trend; a general direction in which something tends to move


Spelling Word: tendency
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a. pertaining to territory or land; limited to a certain district


Spelling Word: territorial
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n. paper; dissertation; an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument


Spelling Word: thesis