Week 23 of 36 · 10 words · ages 15–16
10th Grade spelling words, week 23: Roots for looking (spec, scope)
10th Grade spelling words · week 23 · Roots for looking (spec, scope) · spellchirp.com
- auspicious
- Promising good fortune.
- despicable
- Deserving contempt.
- horoscope
- A forecast of a person's future based on the stars.
- gyroscope
- A spinning wheel that holds steady and helps ships and planes stay balanced.
- introspective
- Inclined to examine one's own thoughts.
- endoscope
- A thin tube with a camera for looking inside the body.
- perspicuous
- Clearly expressed and easy to understand.
- kaleidoscope
- A tube of mirrors that makes shifting patterns.
- periscope
- A tube with mirrors for seeing over obstacles.
- stethoscope
- A doctor's tool for listening to the heart and lungs.
Ten minutes a day this week
Short and daily beats long and once. A word met on five separate days is remembered; a word met five times on Thursday night mostly is not.
Monday
Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.
Tuesday
Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.
Wednesday
Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.
Thursday
Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.
Friday
The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.
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