Week 31 of 36 · 10 words · ages 13–14
8th Grade spelling words, week 31: Civics vocabulary
8th Grade spelling words · week 31 · Civics vocabulary · spellchirp.com
- legislature
- The elected body that makes laws for a country or state.
- ballot
- A paper or card used to cast a vote.
- sovereign
- A supreme ruler, or having full independent power.
- constitution
- The basic laws that set up a government.
- tariff
- A tax placed on goods brought into a country.
- judiciary
- The branch of government made up of the courts.
- bicameral
- Having two lawmaking houses, like the Senate and the House.
- referendum
- A public vote on one question.
- ratify
- To approve officially so it becomes valid.
- suffrage
- The right to vote.
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.
Practise these 10 words, free
One tap puts this week’s list in SpellChirp. It reads each word aloud, checks the spelling, brings back the ones that went wrong, and can write them into a story your child stars in. No account needed to start, and no advertising.