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  Academic Words Level 4 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. [hăng] stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic


Spelling Word: pungent
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v. [vui mừng] feel joy; experience gladness in a high degree; have pleasurable satisfaction; be delighted; enjoy


Spelling Word: rejoice
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v. [khiển trách] express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace


Spelling Word: reproach
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a. [mạnh mẽ] vigorous; full of health and strength; vigorous


Spelling Word: robust
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n. [bảo vệ] one who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection


Spelling Word: safeguard
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ad. [hiếm] hardly; barely; only just


Spelling Word: scarcely
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v. [cháy sém] burn superficially;  parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; affect painfully with heat; burn


Spelling Word: scorch
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v. [tiệt trùng] make sterile or unproductive; impoverish, as land; exhaust of fertility.


Spelling Word: sterilize
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v. [phấn đấu] endeavor; struggle or fight forcefully; exert much effort or energy


Spelling Word: strive
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v. [phục] quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make less intense; tone down


Spelling Word: subdue