Week 3 of 36 · 10 words · ages 16–17
11th Grade spelling words, week 3: -cious and -tious endings
11th Grade spelling words · week 3 · -cious and -tious endings · spellchirp.com
- vivacious
- Lively and full of spirit.
- voracious
- Having an enormous appetite for food or for reading.
- loquacious
- Talking a great deal.
- pugnacious
- Always ready for a fight or argument.
- ostentatious
- Showy in a way meant to impress.
- surreptitious
- Done secretly so as not to be noticed.
- tendentious
- Pushing one side of an argument rather than being fair.
- pertinacious
- Stubbornly holding to a purpose.
- repetitious
- Saying or doing the same thing too often; dull.
- vexatious
- Annoying and troublesome.
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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