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Show approval or praise by clapping
Applaud
Nonstandard form of expect
Spect
A powered rail vehicle used for pulling trains
Locomotive
A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.
Phonics
A tiny spot/small particle
Speck
An interview for a particular job, such as a dancer, that requires a performance
Audition
A person who watches games, such as basketball, baseball, football, etc.
Spectator
The action of saying words aloud to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape
Dictation
A unit of the perceived loudness of sounds.
Phon
So ludicrous as to be amusing.
Laughable
To deserve praise
Laudable
A visually striking performance or display. "He made a big ________ of himself
Spectacle
Produce or utter speech sounds
Phonate
A particular part or feature of something: the financial ________ can be overstressed.
Aspect
A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings
Insect
Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
Fraud
To closely look at a certain object, often judging it
Inspect
To be wearing eyeglasses
Bespectacled
A fear of or aversion to loud sounds (for example fireworks)—a type of specific phobia.
Phonophobia
To be covered in spots
Bespeckled
Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks
Audacious
A band of colors, as seen in a rainbow, produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength.
Spectrum
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point
Perspective
A unit of heat equivalent to 100,000 Btu or 1.055 × 108 joules.
Therm
A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong.
Sect