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  Academic Words Level 1 - 3 - Spelling Practices
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v. give to understand; imply or hint; state or make known  


Spelling Word: intimate
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n. building for confinement of persons held in lawful custody


Spelling Word: jail
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a. resentful or bitter in rivalry; envious


Spelling Word: jealous
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v. try to conceal something; disguise;  hide under a false appearance


Spelling Word: mask
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a. enormous; colossal; consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter


Spelling Word: massive
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v. develop and reach maturity; grow old or older


Spelling Word: mature
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n. emotion, desire, physiological need; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior


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n. printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction


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n. two people or things considered as a unit; two items of the same kind; a couple


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n. garden of Eden; any place of complete delight and peace


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