Week 24 of 36 · 10 words · ages 14–15
9th Grade spelling words, week 24: Ending -re
9th Grade spelling words · week 24 · Ending -re · spellchirp.com
- mediocre
- Not bad, not good — stuck in the middle.
- macabre
- Grim and gruesome, concerned with death.
- massacre
- The cruel killing of many people.
- acre
- A unit for measuring land, used for farms and fields.
- hectare
- A metric unit of land area, about two and a half acres.
- timbre
- The special quality that makes one voice or instrument sound different from another.
- cadre
- A small, trained group at the core of a party, army or company.
- lucre
- Money, especially when it is gained in a dishonest way.
- ogre
- A fierce giant in fairy tales that eats people.
- oeuvre
- The complete body of work of a writer or artist.
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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