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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. extending in scope or effect to a prior time or prior conditions


Spelling Word: retroactive
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a. tending to improve; beneficial; favorable to health


Spelling Word: salutary
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v. throw away; discard; break down into parts for disposal or salvage


Spelling Word: scrap
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a. removed or remote from others; solitary; hidden or isolated


Spelling Word: secluded
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n. resistance to authority; insubordination or rebellion


Spelling Word: sedition
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v. creep or steal privately; come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen


Spelling Word: sneak
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n. a small secluded room; well and tightly constructed


Spelling Word: snug
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n. ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart


Spelling Word: spite
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n. a thick sweet sticky liquid


Spelling Word: syrup
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a. attractive; appealing to or attracting someone, even if wrong or inadvisable


Spelling Word: tempting