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Week 25 of 36 · 10 words · ages 15–16

10th Grade spelling words, week 25: Latin scrib- and script-

The root scrib or script means write; the prefix changes but the root holds, as in pro + scribe and con + script + ion, and in scrivener it became scriv.
proscribe
To forbid officially.
transcribe
To write out spoken words in full.
ascribe
To credit something to a cause or person.
typescript
A text produced on a keyboard rather than by hand.
prescriptive
Laying down rules about how something should be done.
descriptor
A word or label that sums up what something is like.
conscription
Required service in the armed forces, ordered by law.
scrivener
A clerk who copied documents by hand in earlier times.
scriptorium
A room in a monastery where books were copied.
unscripted
Not planned or written out ahead of time.

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.

  1. Monday

    Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.

  2. Tuesday

    Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.

  3. Wednesday

    Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.

  4. Thursday

    Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.

  5. Friday

    The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.

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