150 Words Every 5th Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 5

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  1. abundant
    present in great quantity
  2. association
    a formal organization of people or groups of people
  3. bury
    place in a grave or tomb
  4. climb
    go up or advance
  5. clumsy
    lacking grace in movement or posture
  6. doubt
    the state of being unsure of something
  7. expect
    regard something as probable or likely
  8. foreign
    not deriving from the essential nature of something
  9. government
    the system or form by which a community is ruled
  10. harvest
    the gathering of a ripened crop
  11. intelligent
    having the capacity for thought and reason to a high degree
  12. jungle
    an impenetrable equatorial forest
  13. limit
    as far as something can go
  14. tolerate
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  15. university
    an institution of higher learning that grants degrees
Created on Wed Aug 30 15:53:06 EDT 2023 (updated Wed Aug 30 15:57:33 EDT 2023)

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