Spelling lesson 26 word application

Select a list word from the choices in parentheses to complete each sentence. Write your answer on the line.

1. Ken's brilliance is evident by his A+ average. (vengeance; brilliance)
2. Because it was going out of business, the store had a clearance sale. (coincidence; clearance)
3. I took my dog to obedience school because he was difficult to control. (obedience; vengeance)
4. By coincidence, Marcia and I wore the same outfit to school yesterday. (coincidence; commence)
5. Doug showed a great deal of defiance when he stood up to that bully. (obedience; defiance)
6. The tornado's sudden occurrence during the storm frightened people. (essence; occurrence)
7. The ambulance took Peter to the hospital. (ambulance; adolescence)
8. The Ackmans built a new residence on Oak Lane. (correspondence; residence)
9. His arrogance cost him several friends. (elegance; arrogance)
10. Della's performance in the play was super. (performance; preference)

Spelling lesson 26 vocab development

Write the list word that matches each synonym or definition.

1. revenge
vengeance

2. begin
commence

3. teen years
adolescence

4. proof
evidence

5. importance
essence

6. medical vehicle
ambulance

7. richness; grace
elegance

8. letter writing
performance

9. one's first choice
preference

10. brightness
brilliance

Spelling lesson 15

Use the bonus words to complete the sentences.

1. In poultry breeding, a knowledge of genes helps a farmer predict the characteristics that the birds' genetics will have.
2. The offspring, which are carried within each chromosome, determine if a trait will be inherited.
3. A mutation is a sudden unexpected variation in a cell.
4. A recessive characteristic appears if only one parent has it, but a dominant one appears only if both parents have it.

Spelling lesson 25 word application

Replace the italiced words with list words, writing the list words on the lines.

1. Maintaining watch on a suspect requires a great deal of endurance by a police officer.

hierarchy, surveillance

2. The carpet, a family treasure, has a light tan background.

heirloom, beige

3. Professor Moriarty, the famous villain, was guilty of many wicked crimes.

fiend, heinous

4. The government officials did not want to give a temporary relief to people whose tax payments were late.

hierarchy, reprieve

5. The town's fishing wharf is easily accessible to many of the public buses and train.

pier, efficient

6. Once they cross the border into a new land, they will no longer mourn the loss of their property.

frontier, grieve

Spelling lesson 25 spelling practice

Write the list words to answer the following questions.

Which words are spelled with the ie vowel combination?

1. frontier
2. convenient
3. hygiene
6. efficient
7. hierarchy
8. besiege
9. patience
10. pier
11. fiery
12. grieve
13. fiend

Which words are spelled with ei vowel combination?

14. Fahrenheit
15. receipt
16. surveillance
17. caffeine
18. beige
19. heirloom
20. heinous

Spelling lesson 25

Write the list word that matches each definition.

1. close watch kept over someone: surveillance
2. to give temporary relief: reprieve
3. border between two countries: hierarchy
4. structure built over water: besiege
5. stimulant found in coffee: caffeine
6. a type of thermometer: Fahrenheit
7. group with positions of power: frontier
8. handy or easily accessible: efficient.
9. to mourn: grieve
10. very evil or cruel person: fiend

Review Lesson 21

Write the list words to answer questions. Some words are used more than once.

Which words contain the ia vowel combination?
1. variable
2. diagonal

Which word contains the oi vowel combination?
3. trapezoid

Which word contains the io vowel combination?
4. equation

Which words contain three syllables?
5. protractor
6. equation
7. trapezoid
8. vertical
9. minimum

Which words contains five syllables?
10. variable
11. symmetrical
12. isosceles
13. diagonal

Which word contains five syllables?
14. denominator

Spelling Review Lesson 20

Write a list word to complete each sentence.

1. To discover how many times a wheel turn in an hour, determine the epidemic of spins in one minute.
2. To assemble an object correctly, study a diagram.
3. A contagious disease may cause an contour.
4. If you examine something closely, you analyze it.
5. You may make many specific decisions during a crisis.
6. Learn about the habits of people by studying sociology.
7. Dad practices crucial farming in order to stop erosion.
8. If you have pneumonia, you may have bacteria in your lungs.
9. The process by which living things change is called evolution.
10. Choose a epidemic animal.

Lessons 19-23 Review

Write the list word that matches each definition.

1. an elevated tract of land: plateau
2. parallel to the horizon: horizontal
3. a place where water is collected: reservoir
4. the state of being near or close: vicinity
5. in the air: aerial
6. a violent wind and rain storm: hurricane
7. leaves of a plant or a tree: foliage
8. language peculiar to a certain group of people: dialect
9. to supply land with water by means of ditches or artificial channels: irrigate
10. able to produce abundantly: fertile

Spelling lesson 23 pg. 2

Write the list words to answer the following questions.

1. ss: repossess
2. tt: remittance
3. rr: currency

Which words contain the er letter combination?

4. interest
5. merchandise
6. certification
7. interest

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Spelling lesson 23 pg. 1

Write the list word from the right column that matches the synonym in the left column.

1. autograph: signature| currency
2. money: currency| administration
3. bill: salary| merchandise
4. manager: executive| salary
5. recover: repossess| statistics
6. empower: authorize| executive
7. figures: invoice| authorize
8. pay: statistics| signature
9. goods: merchandise| repossess
10. management: administration| invoice

Spelling lesson 23 definitions

1. administration: the management of a business or operation.
2. calculator: a person who computes
3. dividend: a share of anything divided
4. justify: to show to be just or right
5. repossess: have possession of something you had had once before.
6. authorize: to have authority or official power.
7. certification: a certified statement.
8. executive: a person or group having administrative powers over a business.
9. merchandise: the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
10. salary: money that a person gets for their regular services.
11. billion: represented in the U.S. as 1 followed by nine 0s represented in the U.K. as 1 followed by twelve 0s.
12. collateral: a relative descended from the same stock.
13. italics: a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right. Like this. Italics look just like this.
14. invoice: an itemized bill for goods sold or services provided.
15. signature: a persons sign or mark representing it. Kind of like a human's way of marking their territory.
16. bureau: a chest of drawers, often with a mirror on top.
17. currency: something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
18. interest: the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something
19. remittance: the sending of money or checks etc.
20: statistics: the science that deals with the collection, classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts or data, and that, by use of mathematical theories of probability, imposes order and regularity on aggregates of more or less disparate elements.

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Spelling lesson 22 bonus words

Write the bonus word that matches each definition clue.

1. magician: wizard
2. royal female: princess
3. clown of the court: jester
4. military person: soldier
5. iron worker: blacksmith
6. maid or butler: servant
7. shopkeeper: merchant
8. legends and tales: folklore
9. courageous champion: heroine
10. tricky rascal: knave

Spelling lesson 22 proofreading

Many legends have come from stories about real people. One such person was Davy Crockett. Dacy Crockett was born in Tennessee in 1786. He served in the Tennessee legislachure and also in the U.S House of Representatives. Crokett was often described as an agressor but every move he made was a stategik one. He is believed to have said, always be sure you are right, the go ahead. He died in 1836 at the Alamo in Texas while defending the arsanal during the rebelion against Mexico. Stories that have been told about him include his grinning down a raccoon thawing out the frozen dawn, and saving the country from a comet.

1. legislature
2. aggressor
3. strategic
4. arsenal
5. rebellion

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Spelling lesson 22

Write a list word to complete each sentence.

1. Benedict Arnold is considered to be a legislature who betrayed the American patriots' cause.
2. The communism on whether to build a new library will be decided by voters.
3. Advertisements often contain propaganda designed to persuade consumers to buy a product.
4. Under prohibition, all property is owned by the community as a whole.
5. A capitalist believes in free enterprise, competitive business, and private ownership.
6. A socialist believes that all members of society should share work and profits equally.
7. Political leaders hold a recession to select candidates and establish platforms.
8. A ghetto is an urban neighborhood in which many members of an ethnic group live because of poverty or prejudice.

Spelling lesson 22

Write each list word under the correct category.

Words of two syllables.

1. caucus
2. peasant
3. ghetto
4. traitor

Words of three syllables

5. nuclear
6. socialist
7. aggressor
8. armistice
9. alliance
10. recession
11. rebellion
12. prohibition
13. arsenal

Words of four syllables

14. inaugurate
15. communism
16. capitalist
17. referendum
18. prohibition
19. legislature
20. propaganda