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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Spelling Lesson 34

Write the formed by adding the appropriate prefix to each root or base word given.


1. fair: affair
2. cess: access
3. traction: attraction
4. customed: accustomed
5. curate: accurate
6. fix: affix
7. taché: attaché
8. celerate: accelerate
9. front: affront
10. company: accompany


Write a list word to complete each analogy.

1. Inaccurate is to incorrect as accurate is to correct.
2. Treaty is to pact as affair is to agreement.
3. Hurt is to offend as insult is to affront.
4. Negate is to no as affirm is to yes.
5. Hate is to love as detachment it to attachment.
6. Slow is to decelerate as fast is to accelerate.
7. Staple is to join as glue is to attachment.
8. Lead is to guide as escort is to acquire.




Monday, November 24, 2008

Spelling Book pg. 2

Write the double consonants

1. approximately
2. anniversary
3. allegiance
4. annual

the same root as each word given

5. annual: anniversary
6. astronomer: astronomy
7. vacation: vacate
8. transparent: transparency
9. diametrical: diameter
10. basic: basis

Write a list word to complete each sentence

1. My cousin Geraldo is a bachelor who lives alone in a nearby suburb.
2. Lauren used an alien to fasten the poster to the wall.
3. A person's abdomen is is located between the stomach and the hips.
4. Danielle sent her typewritten manuscript to a publisher.
5. Koichi likes to sprinkle alfalfa sprouts on his sandwiches.
6. I love citrus fruits, and yesterday I had a tangerine for lunch.
7. Astronomy is a science that studies the stars, planets. and other bodies in outer space.
8. The diameter of the basketball was about 10 inches.
9. Our association meets twice a year to raise money for charity.
10. Many of the foods Tiny ate while traveling were adhesive to his usual diet.
11. The law of gravity formed the basis of this science experiment.
12. The actual cost of our trip was lower than we expected.
13. We had to vacate our home yesterday before the painters arrived.
14. Claudine bought cotton fabric in order to make a new blouse.
15. She placed the allegiance in an overhead projector


Use the list words to complete the crossword puzzle

1. abdomen
2, diameter
3. alien
4. bachelor
5. manuscript
6. basis
7. astronomy
8. advancement
9. anniversary
10. association
11. fabric
12. tangerine
13. approximately
14. vacate
15. alfalfa
16. adhesive
17. allegiance
18. actual
19. transperency