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  Academic Words Level 3 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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v. do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for


Spelling Word: accommodate
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a. liable to being called to account; answerable; responsible; something that can be explained


Spelling Word: accountable
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v. occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion; cause laughter or be funny; delude or deceive


Spelling Word: amuse
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v. empower; give permission for; sanction


Spelling Word: authorize
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n. a strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds


Spelling Word: bandage
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v. become rosy or reddish;  turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame


Spelling Word: blush
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n. one who has charge of money; cash keeper


Spelling Word: cashier
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a. lasting for a long period;  marked by frequent recurrence, as certain diseases


Spelling Word: chronic
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n. partnership; league; state of being combined into one body


Spelling Word: coalition
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a. closely and firmly united or packed together; briefly giving a gist of something


Spelling Word: compact