Week 8 of 36 · 10 words · ages 17–18

12th Grade spelling words, week 8: Doubled letters

Doubled letters hide inside these words: mm in dilemma, rr in recurrence, ll in pellucid, ff in effulgent. Say each pair aloud while writing.
dilemma
A choice between two bad options.
harassment
Repeated unwanted pressure or annoyance.
recommendation
Advice that something is good or suitable.
unparalleled
Greater than anything else of its kind.
recurrence
A return of something that happened before.
aggrieved
Upset at being treated unfairly.
apposite
Fitting and relevant to the matter at hand.
effulgent
Shining brightly.
pellucid
Clear enough to see through, or easy to understand.
suffuse
To spread through or over, as light does at dawn.

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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