Week 34 of 36 · 10 words · ages 16–17

11th Grade spelling words, week 34: Latin roots: fid and ver

Latin fid means trust or faith and ver means truth. Spot the root and both the meaning and the spelling follow.
fidelity
Faithfulness to a person, a promise or an original.
confidant
A trusted friend you share secrets with.
diffident
Shy and lacking belief in oneself.
fiduciary
Holding money or property in trust for someone else.
perfidy
The breaking of trust; betrayal.
veracity
Truthfulness; accuracy.
verity
A true statement or principle.
aver
To state firmly that something is true.
veritable
Truly being what it is called; genuine.
verifiable
Able to be tested and proved true.

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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