Spelling – Teaching Spelling – Spelling Word Lists
pipable
obesity
ossify
digit
nagging
cantonment
enculturate
tractile
ciguatera
prosody
minnow
elicitor
cumulus
greffier
spasmolytic
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Lesson 174. Words in which the letter A is often mispronounced. Some of the words in
this and succeeding lessons have two pronunciations, but in all cases the
preferable one is given. hearth mam ma’ an’cient fra’ter nize
grass a slant’ la’va com man dant’
slant pa pa’ saun’ter ti a’ra
gape a las’ pal’frey al ter’nate
gaunt al’mond rap’ine af fla’tus
far scath’less dra’ma hi a’tus
swathe pag’eant la’ma ba na’na
lance stal’wart da’ta sul ta’na
calm aft’er ma’gi man da’mus
laugh par’ent pa’thos oc ta’vo
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Lesson 171.
SYNTHETIC AND DICTATION EXERCISES.
A’bel, a man’s name. de scend’ent, falling.
a’ble, powerful. cough’er, one who coughs.
al’ley, a narrow passage. coffer, a chest.
al ly’, one who assists. can’died, covered with sugar.
al lu’sion, a reference. can’did, honest; truthful.
il lu’sion, mockery. cent’u ry, 100 years.
de scend’ant, offspring. sen’try, a guard.
The able man’s name was Abel. A narrow alley. France was an ally of
England in the Crimean war. He made an allusion to the illusion that
possessed him. His descendant was descendent from the same line. The
cougher sat on the coffer. The candid youth ate the candied cakes. The
sentry wore a costume of the last century.
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Affixes – Prefixes
Lesson 160.
Fore adds its own meaning to the word; as foretaste, to taste before; pre is from the Latin prae, before; ante (Latin), before. Anti (Greek), means against or opposite.
fore’sight fore tell’er fore bod’ing ly
fore’most fore knowl’edge fore de ter’mine
fore know’ fore’cas tle pre med’i tate
pre fix’ pre cau’tion pre oc’cu py
pre judge’ pre ced’ing pre-em’i nent
pre serve’ pre des’tine an te pas’chal
pre sage’ an’te past an te mun’dane
pre text’ an’te date an te nup’tial
fore warn’ an’ti pode an ti cli’max
fore’front an’ti dote an ti feb’rile