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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. [不安寧的,好動的] never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; eager for change; discontented


Spelling Word: restless
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n. [革命] act of revolving; motion of a body around a fixed point or line; total or radical change in political organization


Spelling Word: revolution
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v. [繞轉,旋轉,考慮,細想] turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; rotate; move in curved path round a center; pass in cycles


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n. [外科手術刀,解剖刀] a small knife with a thin, keen blade, used by surgeons and in dissecting


Spelling Word: scalpel
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ad. [表面上,似乎] apparently; appearing to be something, especially when this is not true


Spelling Word: seemingly
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n. [梭子,往返汽車] public transport that consists of a bus or train, or airplane that runs between two points; spacecraft


Spelling Word: shuttle
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n. [屠宰(牲畜),屠殺,殺戮(人)] act of killing; extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage


Spelling Word: slaughter
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v. [強奪,攫取] grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly


Spelling Word: snatch
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n. [負責人,保證人,贊助人] one who binds himself to answer for another and is responsible for his default; godfather or godmother


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n. [摞,疊,大堆,谷堆] an orderly pile; heap; a large number; arrange in a pile


Spelling Word: stack