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  Academic Words Level 5 - 1 - Spelling Practices
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a. comparable; similar or alike


Spelling Word: analogous
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a.  of or relating to a chemical substance that kills microorganisms and cures infections


Spelling Word: antibiotic
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a. old; belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period


Spelling Word: antique
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v. bring peace, quiet, or calm to; satisfy or relieve


Spelling Word: appease
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a. capable of knowing; conscious; relating to the faculty of apprehension; sensible; feeling; perceptive


Spelling Word: apprehensive
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n. blessing; benefit bestowed, especially in response to a request


Spelling Word: boon
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a. not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence


Spelling Word: brute
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n. cluster or close group of bushes, trees; mass; the sound of heavy treading


Spelling Word: clump
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n. quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually


Spelling Word: competence
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n. something that completes or makes up a whole or brings to perfection


Spelling Word: complement