Week 9 of 36 · 10 words · ages 17–18

12th Grade spelling words, week 9: One letter doubles, one doesn't

Some words double one letter but not the next: hallucination (ll, one c), disseminate (ss, one m), tyrannical (one r, nn).
baccalaureate
An undergraduate degree from a college.
hallucination
Seeing or hearing something that is not there.
apportion
To divide and share out.
ennoble
To raise to the aristocracy, or to lend dignity to.
pittance
A very small amount of money.
supplicate
To beg humbly.
tyrannical
Ruling in a harsh, unjust way.
innovate
To introduce something new.
occlusion
A blockage or closing off.
disseminate
To spread widely, as news or seeds.

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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