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abhorrenceabhorrence, meaning disgusting abridgment/abridgementabridgement, as in, an abridgement to a book abscessabscess, meaning area of pus absorptionabsorption, as in, a sponge provides good absorption accessaccess, as in, I doubt you have access to Fort Knox accessoryac cessory, as in, what's the next ac cessory you will buy for your mac? accidentallyaccidentally, as in, I accidentally deleted your system folder accompanyingaccompanying, meaning to supplement accumulateaccumulate, as in, I hope the snow will accumulate so we won't have school accustomeduhcustummed, past tense meaning used to achesaches, as in, my back aches achieveachieve, as in, can you achieve 100% on this test? achievementachievement, as in, getting 100% on this test is an achievement acknowledgeacknowledge, as in, I acknowledge that I'm not an easy grader acquaintanceacquaintance, as in it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance acquireacquire, meaning to gain possession of acquitacquit, meaning to clear from a charge adequateadequate, as in, take an adequate amount of water for your desert hike admissionadmission, as in, I paid $7 admission to see the movie advantageousadvantageous, as in, it is advantageous to practice before a test advertisementadvertisement, as in, a bill-board is an advertisement adviser/advisoraddviser, meaning one that advises advisingaddvising, meaning informing aggravateaggravate, as in, please don't aggravate me with poor test results aggressiveaggressive, as in, foot-ball is an aggressive sport allegedalleged, as in alleged to have committed a crime alphabetalphuhbet, as in, what can you spell with your bowl of alphuhbet soup amateuramateur, meaning one who does something as a pastime instead of a profession ambitiousambitious, as in, if you’re ambitious you will set your goals high analysisanalysis, meaning the seperation of something into parts for study analyzeanallize, meaning to separate into parts to find the nature of the whole angelangel, meaning a messangjer of God anticipationanticipation, as in, I waited in great anticipation for Christmas anxietyanxiety, meaning a state of apprehension about something in the future apparentapparent, meaning readily visible apparentlyapparently, meaning readily visible appearanceappearance, as in, your appearance is important at a jawb interview appetiteappetite, as in, I have an appetite for ice cream cake and cookies appliedapplied, as in, my brother applied his flight simulator knowledge to flying a real plane appointmentappointment, as in, I have a doctors appointment on the twenty-first appreciateappreciate, as in, people appreciate a good speller approachapproach, as in, the plane descended into its final approach approvalapproval, as in, what is the approval rating of our president approximatelyapproximately, as in, words cannot be spelled approximately and still be correct argueargue, as in, it is difficult to argue with the eye r s assistanceassistance, meaning help assistantassistant, meaning one who helps associateassociate, meaning one joined as a partner in an act or a business associationassociation, as in, the national rifle association attractivenessattractiveness, as in, your attractiveness can be improved by showering audienceaudience, as in, the audience laughed at his poor spelling authorityauthority, as in, a police officer is granted authority to give you a ticket balloonballoon, as in, a hot air balloon basisbasis, as in, you need to have a basis for that argument beginningbeginning, meaning starting behaviorbehavior, as in, bad behavior should not be tolerated bornborn, meaning brought into life borneborne, meaning carried breathbreath, as in, you have bad breath breathebreathe, as in, if you don't breathe, you will not live Britainbritain, the island country of europe cafeteriacafeteria, as in, lets get lunch at the cafeteria calculatorcalculator, and don't go looking in the Apple menu campaigncampaign, meaning operation to achieve a certain goal candidatecandidate, as in, John Doh is a poor candidate for president carelesscareless, as in, running around in a thunderstorm is very careless caresscaress, meaning a gentle touch categoricallycategorically, meaning without exception or qualification characteristiccharacteristic, as in, it is characteristic of windows to be easily breakable chocolatechocolate, as in, I love chocolate milk circuitsurkit, as in, surkit breaker circumstancecircumstance, as in, pomp and circumstance collectible/collectablecollectible, meaning a prized piece for a collection comfortablycomfortably, as in, this shoe fits comfortably on my big foot commitmentcommitment, meaning promise communicationcommunication, as in, the telephone is a means of communication communitycommunity, as in, as part of his conviction he received 100 hours of community service companiescompanies, as in, Ford and G M are car manufacturing companies comparisoncomparison, as in, there is no comparison to the real thing competitioncompetition, as in, Master Spell is good practice for competition in a spelling bee comprehensioncomprehension, meaning understanding concertconcert, meaning musical performance condemncondemn, meaning to express strong disapproval of congratulationscongratulations, meaning the act of expressing joy at accomplishment or good fortune consistencyconsistency, as in, I grade these tests with consistency consistentconsistent, meaning being in agreement with itself contemporarycontemporary, meaning current or modern controversycontroversy, meaning a dispute correspondencecorrespondence, meaning communication by way of letters countriescountries, meaning nations courageouscourageous, meaning brave crisiscrisis, as in, there is a crisis in the white house criticizecriticize, meaning one's action of pointing out fault cruellycruelly, meaning causing suffering or pain crueltycrueldty, meaning the quality of being cruel curiouscurious, as in curious george and the electric fence customarycustomary, meaning traditionally cylindercylinder, meaning a 3 dimensional prism with a round base deceptiondeception, as in, cults use deception to lure intelligent people decidedlydecidedly, as in, he is decidedly against abortion deficiencydeficiency, as in, she has a blood sugar deficiency deficientdeficient, meaning to be lacking degreedegree, as in, Master Spell does not offer a degree in spelling delinquentdelleenquent, as in, a juvenile delleenquent gets into trouble describedescribe, as in, it is easy to describe the things we like desertdesert, meaning to abandon dessertdessert, meaning ice cream cake and cookies deterioratedeteriorate, as in, your teeth will deteriorate if you never brush them detrimentdetriment, as in, smoking is a detriment to your health devicedevice, as in, a machine is a device devisedevise, meaning to draw a plan diningdining, as in, dining at a fine restaurant disappeardisappear, as in, the magician made his assistant disappear discipledisciple, as in, disciple of jeesus discriminatediscrimin 8, as in, one should discrimin 8 based on behavior disillusioneddissillusioned, meaning dissench ant ed doesn'tdoesn't, as in, it doesn't matter drawerdrawer, as in the dresser drawer effecteffect, meaning result efficiencyefficiency, as in, fuel efficiency is a criterion for buying a car efficientefficient, as in, the efficient use of energy saves you money but not the planet eighth[[inpt PHON]]_1EYtTT[[inpt TEXT]], as in sixth, seventh, [[inpt PHON]]_1EYtTT[[inpt TEXT]] eligibleeligible, meaning quaollified emphasizeemphasize, as in, the make up emphasized her good features employee/employeemployee, meaning the person employed endeavorendeavor, meaning a concerted effort toward a goal EnglishEnglish, meaning the language I've bin speaking too you enterpriseenterprise, meaning a business organization enthusiasmenthusiasm, as in, I took the spelling test with much enthusiasm environmentalenvironmental, as in, fear of environmental catastrophe is how the powerful lure people to give up freedom equallyequally, as in, reading and math are equally important equippedequipped, the past tense of equip equivalentequivalent, as in, one gahllon is equivalent to 3.8 leeters essentialessential, meaning inherent exceptexcept, meaning other than exceptionallyexceptionally, as in, you will hopefully do exceptionally well on this test excitableexcitable, meaning easily excited exhaustedexhausted, meaning tired expectationexpectation, as in, we worked with the expectation that we would be paid extraordinaryextrordinary, meaning beyond the ordinary eyeing/eyingeyeing, as in that pervert is eyeing you facilitiesfacilities, as in, no dogs are allowed on these facilities fairfair, meaning average or lovely faithfulnessfaithfulness, as in, faithfulness is important to marriage familiarfamiliar, as in, are you familiar with the streets of downtown chicago? familiesfamilies, as in, many families went to the amusement park last summer farefare, meaning a fee for transportation FebruaryFebruary, the second month of the year finallyfinally, as in, aren't you wondering when this will finally be over financiallyfinancially, meaning having to do with money foreignforeign, meaning from outside forfeitforfeit, meaning giving up forthforth, meaning forward fourthfourth, meaning one more than third fraudulentfraudulent, meaning the quality of fraud frighteningfrightening, meaning scary generallygenerally, meaning commonly geniusgenius, as in, it doesn't take genius to learn to spell grammargrammar, meaning rules of language construction graphicgraphic, as in, the graphic artist found it easier to use a mac guaranteeguarantee, meaning assurance guidanceguidance, meaning leading happeninghappen-ning, as in, what do you think is happen-ning in the white house right now happinesshappy-ness, as in, do you think that money brings happy-ness? heartilyheartily, as in, after a long day of work, the farmer ate heartily heavierheavier, as in, a brick is heavier than a feather herdherd, meaning a group of animals holehole, meaning an openning hopinghoping, meaning to wish for hospitalityhospitality, as in, his hospitality was extended to all the guests humiliatedhumiliated, as in, she was humiliated by her husbands puerill behavior hurriedlyhurriedly, meaning moving rapidly hypocrisyhypocrisy, meaning professing beliefs that one doesn't believe hypocritehypocrite, meaning one who professes beliefs contrary to his own beliefs ideallyideally, meaning the best possible situation illogicalillogical, meaning against logic immediatelyimmediately, meaning at this time importantimportant, as in, it's important to wear your seatbelt impossibleimpossible, meaning not possible inadvertentinadvertent, meaning done without concious thought inconvenienceinconvenience, meaning not convenient increaseincrease, as in, an increase in taxes is a decrease in freedom independenceindependence, meaning state of subsisting on its own independentindependent, meaning subsisting on its own industrialindustrial, as in, the area is zoned for industrial use influentialinfluential, meaning having the quality to influence initiativeinitiative, as in, he took the initiative to collect petitions innocenceinnocence, meaning not guilty insistenceinsistence, meaning firm demanding or standing insistentinsistent, meaning a firm demand or stand installationinstallation, as in, a software installation should be easy and fast intellectualintellectual, as in, economic philosophy is an intellectual pursuit intercedeinterseed, meaning to plead on anothers behalf interferenceinterference, meaning hindering interruptinterrupt, meaning to stop the continuity of invariableinvariable, as in, the law of gravity is a very invariable law irrelevantirrelevant, unrelated islandisland, meaning land surrounded on all sides by water jealousyjealousy, as in, jealousy is at the root of dislike for macs judgment/judgementjudgment, as in, final judgment will come at the end of the world judiciousjudicious, as in, a good judge is fair and judicious kidnapped/kidnapedkidnapped, meaning to illegally abduct knowledgeknowledge, meaning that which one knows laboratorylaboratory, meaning the area where experiments are conducted laidlaid, as in, I laid down my sleepy head languagelanguage, as in, do you know another language besides English? ledled, meaning past tense of leed legitimatelejitimate, meaning that which is in accordance with law leisureleesure, as in, do you get to do what you want in your leesure time? lenientlenient, meaning making exceptions lessenlessen, meaning to make less lessonlesson, meaning something learned liabilityliability, meaning responsibility likable/likeablelikable, meaning easily liked likelihoodlighkleehood, meaning probable liquefy/liquifyliquefy, meaning to make into liquid lonelinessloneliness, meaning the state of being lonely loyaltyloyal-tee, as in, the soldier's loyal-tee to his country is to the death luxuryluxury, meaning comfort maintenancemaintenance, as in, computers sometimes require much maintenance manufacturingmanufacturing, as in, the manufacturing division of our company produces cellphones marriagemarriage, meaning the institution of commitment established by god between man and woman mechanicsmechanics, as in, do you understand the mechanics of a jet engine? metropolitanmetropolitan, as in, chicago is a metropolitan city millionairemillionaire, meaning one whose wealth meets or exceeds a million of some currency missilemissile, meaning the weapon mournfulmoornful, meaning sorrowful musclemuscle, meaning the body part that allows you to move musicianmusician, as in, being a good musician takes years of practice mysteriousmysterious, meaning that which is of a mystery mystifyingmystifying, meaning to puzzle or confuse neighborneighbor, meaning one who lives nearby nineteennineteen, meaning one less than twenty ninetyninety, as in ninety percent correct is a pretty good score noticingnoticing, meaning the act of observing nuclearnuclear, as in, nuclear power is a good source of electricity numerousnumerous, meaning many occupyingoccupying, as in, occupying territory is one way of controlling it occuruhker, meaning happen offenseoffense, meaning to cause anger officialofficial, meaning authorized by an authority opinionopinion, as in, court decisions ought not be decided by public opinion poles opponentopponent, meaning one who opposes opportunitiesopportunities, as in, America is still the land of opportunities opportunityopportunity, meaning a favorable circumstance ordinarilyordinarily, meaning commonly organizationorganization, as in, some employers value organization skills originorigin, meaning the point at which something comes into existence originallyoriginally, meaning having to do with the origin of pamphletpamphlet, meaning booklet in paper covers participatedparticipated, meaning to take part particularlyparticularly, as in, I particularly like talking peculiarpeculiar, meaning unnusual pedal[[inpt PHON]]_p1EH2=dAXl[[inpt TEXT]], as in a bicycle [[inpt PHON]]_p1EH2=dAXl[[inpt TEXT]] permanentpermanent, meaning lasting personalpersonal, as in, it was too personal a question for me to answer perspirationperspirration, meaning sweat pertainpertain, as in, does your question pertain to our discussion? petal[[inpt PHON]]_p1EH2=dAXl[[inpt TEXT]], as in a flower [[inpt PHON]]_p1EH2=dAXl[[inpt TEXT]] philosophyphilosophy, meaning study of the truth or principle of knowledge piercepierce, as in, only women should pierce their ears plausibleplausible, meaning believeable portrayedportrayed, as in, the actor portrayed a likable character possibilitypossibility, as in, there is a possiblity of rain today practicallypractically, meaning nearly prairieprairie, meaning grass covered plain in north america precedeprecede, meaning to come before preferablepreferable, meaning more desirable prejudiceprejudisse, as in, I have a prejudisse against satan worshippers presencepresence, as in, your presence is required in order to take the S Ay tees pretensepretense, meaning a false appearance proceedproceed, meaning to go forward with prodigyprodigy, meaning a person with exceptional talents or powers prominentprominent, meaning immediately notice-ibble propeller/propellorpropeller, as in, the propeller of an airplane provisionsprovisions, as in, we only had provisions for 2 days pursuedpursued, as in, a fox was pursued by hounds qualitiesqualities, as in, she has many fine qualities quantumquontum, as in, what's the next quontum advance in computer technology queueq, meaning to line up quizzesquizses, as in i give pop quizses to keep you on your toes readablereadable, meaning able to read realisticallyrealistically, as in, you can realistically believe your spelling will improve recollectionrecollection, as in, my recollection of the sixties is dim referredreferred, as in she referred me to a spehcialist rehearsalrehersal, as in the rehersal for the play relevantrelevant, as in, is your point relevant to our discussion religionreligion, as in, give me that old time religion was a great song religiousreligious, as in, the Bible is a religious text rememberremember, as in, do you remember what you did last summer? repetitionrepetition, meaning to occur again repetitiousrepehtih shus, as in, I try not to be repehtih shus with my words within a test repetitivelyrepetitively, meaning characterized by repetition representativerepresentative, meaning something that stands in the place of requirementsrequirements, as in, our requirements include a PhD in philosophy resourcesresources, as in, our national resources are an asset to our country reviewingreviewing, as in, after reviewing the evidence we found her guilty rhyme/rimerhyme, as in, I can rhyme poet and not know it ridiculousridiculous, as in, it would be ridiculous to get this word wrong righteousrighteous, as in, righteous citizens seldom find trouble with the law rivalryrivalry, as in, our rivalry with the cross town team drew a large crowd sandwichsandwich, as in, peanutbutter and jelly is my favorite sandwich satellitesatellite, meaning something in orbit satisfactionsatisfaction, as in, satisfaction guaranteed or your money back satisfiedsatisfied, as in, I was very satisfied with the ten-or of the opera saucersaucer, as in, hot coco spilled into my saucer when my cup tipped scenescene, as in, the scene changes in the next chapter sceneryseenery, as in, a change of seenery will do you good scheduleschedule, as in, it was a tight schedule, but we finished by March scientificscientific, as in, a scientific approach will give us a better answer seizeseize, meaning to take control seizureseizure, meaning a [[inpt PHON]]_s1UXd1EHn_UXt1AEk[[inpt TEXT]] seriousnessseriousness, as in, the seriousness of the situation caused concern sheriffshairiff, as in, i shot the shairiff shouldershoulder, as in, head shoulder knees and toes sightsight, meaning the ability to see signaled/signalledsignulled, as in, the shot heard around the world signulled the beginning of the american revolution sincerelysincerely, meaning genuine sitesite, meaning a place situationsituation, as in, having studied, his situation was positive for the test skiingskeeing, as in, I'm going skeeing in the mount tins next winter solicitorsolicitor, meaning one who solicits soothesoothe, meaning to make calm sophomoresophomore, meaning a second-year student sorrowfulsorrowful, as in, we felt sorrowful over his sudden demise specializationspecialization, as in, her specialization was in oriental music spiraled/spiralledspiraled, meaning a circular motion that varies in offset stationarystationary, as in, the population of our town has been stationary for years stoppingstopping, meaning the act of bringing to a stop straightenstraightten, as in, the kids need to straightten up their room straitjacket/straightjacketstraitjacket, meaning a binding garmet subscriptionsubscription, as in, my magazine subscription as run out substitutesubstitute, as in, there is no substitute for love successfulsuccessful, as in, the mission was successful and we returned to base sufficientsufficient, meaning [[inpt PHON]]_kw1AOlIXf2AYd_1[[inpt TEXT]] surroundedsurrounded, as in, the pioneers were surrounded by indians suspensesa spense,as in, the sa spense was killing us suspicioussuspicious, meaning tending to suspect swimmingswimming, as in, swimming is an enjoyable sport symbolsymbol, as in, the eagle is an american symbol synonymoussynonymous, meaning similar meaning systemsystem, as in, does apple provide the best operating system yet? teen-age/teenageteenage, meaning ages 13 through 19 temperaturetemperature, meaning degree of hotness or coldness tendencyten dency, as in, windows have a ten dency to break easily territoryterritory, as in, Alaska was a territory before it was a state theoriestheories, as in, many theories have been waygered on why the dinosaurs died they'rethey're, as in, they're going on a family picnic thirtythirty, as in, 3 decades equals thirty years thoroughthorough, meaning exhaustively complete thoroughlythoroughly, meaning exhaustively complete thousandthousand, as in, a single step starts a journey of a thousand miles throughoutthroughout, as in, the convenience store is open throughout the year tobaccoto bac o, as in to bac o leaves are used in cigarettes tranquillity/tranquilitytrangquillity, meaning peaceful transmittertransmitter, as in, the radio transmitter broadcasts at 100,000 watts transportationtransportation, as in, a jet is your fastest means of transportation tremendoustremendous, as in, thanks for your tremendous support TuesdayTuesday, as in, Mardy graw means fat tuesday twentiethtwentieth, as in, she pays her bills on the twentieth of each month tyingtying, as in, velcro is an alternative to tying your shoes undesirableundesirable, as in, picking up head lice i would find undesirable undoubtedlyundoubtedly, meaning without doubt uneasinessun easyness, as in, an un easyness in her manner was apparrent untiluntil, as in, we're going to keep doing this until you get it right unusualunusual, as in, it's not unusual to be loved by anyone usable/useableusable, meaning able to use usageusage, as in, your usage of the english language is atrocious usefuluseful, as in, a comb on a windy day can be extremely useful usualusual, as in, the sheep came home in their usual way, wahgging their tails vacuum[[inpt PHON]]_v1AEk_yUWm[[inpt TEXT]], as in, a [[inpt PHON]]_v1AEk_yUWm[[inpt TEXT]] cleaner varietiesvarieties, as in, Hines has 57 varieties variousvarious, as in, the children painted in various colors on the side walk vegetablevegetable, as in, I have a vegetable garden in my back yard vengeancevengeance, meaning retribution veterinaryveterinary, meaning concerning the medical treatment of animals victimvictim, as in, a victim of circumstances once again, I arrived late to the dance virtuallyvirtually, meaning practically vitaminvitamin, as in, a vitamin a day keeps the doctor away wanderwander, as in, the cats wander our neighborhood at night Wednesdaywednesday, meaning the day after tuesday whollywholly, as in wholly complete witnessedwitnessed, as in, could he have witnessed the crime from the car?