Week 5 of 36 · 10 words · ages 16–17

11th Grade spelling words, week 5: -ible endings

A smaller group of words ends in -ible, which sounds just like -able; many came straight from Latin, so each must be memorized.
comprehensible
Capable of being grasped by the mind.
intelligible
Clear enough to be understood.
incorruptible
Too honest to be bribed or led astray.
risible
So silly that it makes people laugh.
imperceptible
Too slight or gradual to be noticed.
inexpressible
Too strong or deep to be put into words.
inaccessible
Impossible to reach or enter.
inadmissible
Not allowed to be accepted, as evidence in court.
miscible
Able to blend together evenly, as two liquids can.
irreducible
Unable to be made any smaller or simpler.

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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