3-3 Spelling List

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11. touch 1.  put the hand on or against something and feel it:   She touched the paint.  2.  be against; come against:  Your sleeve is touching the butter.  3.  being touched:  Just the touch of my hand woke the baby. 
12. crops plants grown for people to use: Corn is a crop grown for people to eat.
13. compound made up of more than one part:  A compound sentence has two subjects and two predicates.
14. compare find out or point out how persons or things are alike:   The girls compared their new red coats.
15. spot 1.  a mark:  She has an ink spot on her sleeve.  2.  a part different from the rest:  Peter's new tie is red with white spots.  3.  a place:  From this one spot on the hill you can see the whole valley.  4. make a spot: Big drops of rain are beginning to spot the sidewalk.
16. process doing or making something by following each step in order:   There are many steps in the process of making cheese.
17. property 1.  the thing or things someone owns:  This car is the property of my dad.  2.  a piece of land:  My uncle owns property in the country.
18. company 1.  a group of people joined together to run a business or put on a play.  2.  a visitor or visitors:  Our company stayed for dinner.
19. column 1.  a thick, tall post or pole used to hold up a roof or a part of a building.  2. anything like a column:  a column of numbers, a column of smoke from the chimney  3.  a special part of a newspaper:  I always read the baseball column.
20. oxygen colorless, tasteless air we breathe.

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