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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?

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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