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  Academic Words Level 5 - 4 - Spelling Practices
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a. [剩余的,残留的] remaining as a residue; surplus


Spelling Word: residual
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n. [复活] rising again; resumption of vigor; the act of rising from the dead or returning to life


Spelling Word: resurrection
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v. [推挤,猛推] drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; push along, aside, or away, in a careless manner


Spelling Word: shove
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a. [势利的,谄上欺下的] of or pertaining to a snob; vulgarly pretentious


Spelling Word: snobbish
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n. [短袜,重击,痛打] plowshare; short stocking reaching a point between ankle and knee; hard blow or punch; comic drama


Spelling Word: sock
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n. [思索,推测,投机] examination by the eye; intellectual check; business venture in unusual risks, with a chance for large profits


Spelling Word: speculation
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v. [刺伤,戳] pierce with a pointed weapon; wound or kill by a pointed instrument


Spelling Word: stab
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a. [消过毒的] barren; infertile; incapable of reproducing; having no imagination, new ideas, or energy


Spelling Word: sterile
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a. [巨大的,大得惊人的] astonishing; wonderful; amazing, especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation


Spelling Word: stupendous
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a. [水下的] beneath the surface of the water; undersea


Spelling Word: submarine