Week 15 of 36 · 10 words · ages 14–15

9th Grade spelling words, week 15: Ending -uous

These adjectives end in -uous: the u and the ous are said as two beats, oo-us, and leaving out the u is the usual slip.

ambiguous: Open to more than one meaning.
continuous: Going on without a break.
conspicuous: Easy to see because it stands out.
strenuous: Needing great effort or energy.
arduous: Hard and tiring, needing lasting effort.
tenuous: Very thin, weak or slight.
contiguous: Sharing a border or touching.
virtuous: Having high moral standards.
superfluous: More than is needed.
presumptuous: Too bold, going beyond what is polite or proper.

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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