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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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n. [مرونة] ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy


Spelling Word: resilience
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n. [راحة] usually a short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment


Spelling Word: respite
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a. [الروتاري] turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis


Spelling Word: rotary
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n. [حكمة] quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness


Spelling Word: sagacity
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a. [البارزة] prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs


Spelling Word: salient
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v. [يسخر] mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily


Spelling Word: scoff
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v. [كشط] abrade or smooth by rubbing with a sharp or rough instrument; draw forcefully over a surface


Spelling Word: scrape
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n. [حصى] small signboard outside the office; coarse beach gravel of little water; worn stones and pebbles


Spelling Word: shingle
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n. [متعجرف كمين] trap; gin; anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble


Spelling Word: snare
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n. [دبابيس] one who deals in staple goods or staple fibers; a device used to bind the material together through staples


Spelling Word: stapler