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 ## Multi-Threaded Considerations
 
-The methods enterCriticalSection and leaveCritialSection are available to support multi-threaded applications.  These methods serialize access to the model store for the specific SPDX document used for the SPDX model object.
+The methods enterCriticalSection and leaveCriticalSection are available to support multi-threaded applications.  These methods serialize access to the model store for the specific SPDX document used for the SPDX model object.
 
 ## Getting Started