Week 7 of 36 · 10 words · ages 17–18
12th Grade spelling words, week 7: -cious endings
12th Grade spelling words · week 7 · -cious endings · spellchirp.com
- capricious
- Changing suddenly and without clear reason.
- fallacious
- Based on a mistaken idea or false reasoning.
- mendacious
- Not telling the truth; lying.
- rapacious
- Greedily taking all one can.
- efficacious
- Producing the result that was intended.
- contumacious
- Stubbornly refusing to obey authority.
- veracious
- Truthful and accurate.
- atrocious
- Horribly bad or cruel.
- meretricious
- Showy and attractive but false or empty.
- precocious
- Developing skills or maturity earlier than expected.
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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