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Vocabulary Building
Routine
1. Practice correctly spelling (and saying) each word.
2. Look up the definitions of each word and note the part of speech (how word is used to communicate).
3. Create a sentence using each word correctly (complex sentences preferred to simple sentences).**
4. Hand-in practice pages with the test.
Tests FRIDAY
** You can use more than one word in a sentence.
You could use several words in a paragraph.
You could, with a partner, write a story using the listed words. Illustrate, format into a book.
Give a reading of the story.
BE CREATIVE
How to format a book?
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SPELLING WORD LISTS
List 1: admonish, breach, brigand, circumspect, commandeer, cumbersome, deadlock, debris, diffuse, dilemma, efface, muddle, opinionated, perennial, predispose, relinquish, salvage, spasmodic, spurious, unbridled
List 2: adjourn, alien, comely, compensate, dissolute, erratic, expulsion, feint, fodder, fortify, illegible, jeer, lucrative, mediocre, proliferate, subjugate, sully, tantalize, terse, unflinching
List 3: abridge, adherent, cherubic, condone, dissent, eminent, exorcise, fabricate, irate, marauder, obesity, pauper, pilfer, rift, semblance, surmount, terminate, trite, ursurp
List 4: abscond, access, anarchy, arduous, auspicious, biased, daunt, disentangle, fated, hoodwink, inanimate, incinerate, intrepid, larceny, pliant, pompous, precipice, rectify, reprieve, revile
List 5: accomplice, annihilate, arbitrary, brazen, catalyst, exodus, facilitate, incorrigible, latent, militant, morose, opaque, paramount, prattle, rebut, reprimand, servitude, slapdash, stagnant, succumb
List 6: atone, bondage, credible, defray, diligent, doleful, ghastly, hamper, hew, impoverished, incessant, intricate, lucid, posthumous, prim, sardonic, superfluous, supplant, taunt, tenacious
List 7: adieu, advent, apex, assimilate, bogus, exorbitant, interim, inundate, malign, meander, metropolis, momentous, obstreperous, pensive, perilous, shoddy, sprightly, surly, tirade, vagrant
List 8: assurance, asylum, console, dilate, dross, dwindle, flippant, immunity, institute, liability, preposterous, pugnacious, rabid, realm, rejuvenate, remunerate, sparse, sterling, venture, warp
List 9: auxiliary, candid, cubicle, drudgery, envoy, escalate, expedient, feign, grievous, heterogeneous, horde, impel, incredulous, inscribe, monologue, prognosis, rasping, repugnant, scuttle
List 10: adept, aspire, bleak, chide, despicable, diminutive, emancipate, erroneous, exploit, extemporaneous, impair, invincible, languid, mire, obtrusive, preamble, render, rugged, skeptical, slipshod
List 11: brevity, comport, concise, demure, depreciation, deteriorate, divulge, enlightened, forestall, garble, proponent, quaver, recoil, recoup, reek, relentless, rivulet, squander, staccato, statute
List 12: appreciable, autocratic, blanch, blasphemy, brawny, concerted, contend, humane, illustrious, intolerable, irreverent, laborious, lithe, maltreat, ponder, subversive, synthetic, temperate, venomous, wily
List 13: ad infinitum, apportion, bona fide, buoyant, clique, concede, congenial, lofty, migration, perceive, perverse, prelude, rancid, rustic, sever, sordid, untenable, versatile, vindicate, wane
List 14: annex, cleave, cordial, cornerstone, debacle, devitalize, embroil, exonerate, glib, haphazard, improvise, incite, influx, pallor, pedigree, precipitous, profuse, reconcile, shackle, threadbare
List 15: abase, actuate, avert, boorish, brunt, combatant, dormant, dubious, harangue, harry, impenitent, knave, legion, liberality, plaintiff, probe, protract, quarry, spurn, subterfuge
NOTE: When you read, your vocabulary and spelling skills improve. Use new words in your writing and speaking.
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