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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [отставки] act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession,  or office; surrender


Spelling Word: resignation
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n. [ресурсов] materials; abilities; available source


Spelling Word: resource
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n. [сарказм] a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound; stinging rebuke; a form of humor by mocking with irony


Spelling Word: sarcasm
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a. [Выбор] taken from a number by preference; picked out as more valuable or excellent than others; of special value or excellence


Spelling Word: select
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a. [солнечная] of or relating to the sun


Spelling Word: solar
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a. [торжественное] serious; somber; deeply earnest, serious, and sober


Spelling Word: solemn
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v. [голодать] hunger; deprive of food


Spelling Word: starve
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n. [стерео] stereophonic sound-reproduction system


Spelling Word: stereo
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a. [простой] proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank


Spelling Word: straightforward
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a. [поверхностных] trivial; of little substance; involving a surface only


Spelling Word: superficial