Word Power

Unit 22 Spelling List (for the Week of February 13th)  (Click here to go back to home page)

This week's lesson is vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel patterns.  The test for this will be given on Friday, February 17th.

1. picture
2. personal
3. perfect
4. attend
5. number
6. support
7. common
8. welcome
9. offer
10. expert
11. harvest
12. survive
13. suppose
14. perform
15. escape
16. helmet
17. allow
18. fellow
19. barber
20. tender

Possible Bonus Words:  filter, candid, disturb, narrate, rascal, scarlet, object, arrive, distance, convince

Wordly Wise Lesson 12 List (for the Week of February 13th and February 27th)

The words being tested are in bold and underlined; the definitions follow.  The test for this will be given on Friday, March 2nd.  Each of the definitions for each of the words will be dictated in their entirety twice; the students must write the word that matches those definitions.

1. ability—power or knowledge; skill.
2. amiable—friendly; good natured and pleasant.
3. bliss—complete joy or happiness.
4. caress—to touch in a tender or loving way; a tender or loving touch or hug.
5. clutch—to grasp or hold tightly to; the part of a machine that connects and disconnects the power from the rest of the machine.
6. coax—to persuade or urge in a gentle way.
7. furious—very, very angry; very fast, strong, or wild.
8. gesture—a movement of the arm or hand; something done to show one’s feelings; to make a movement  of the arm or the hand.
9. mope—to be sad and gloomy; to lose interest in the things that usually bring pleasure.
10. prefer—to like better; to choose first.
11. recover—to get back to a normal state; to get well again; to get back to what was lost or stolen.
12. replace—to take the place of; to put back in place.
13. request—to ask for; the thing asked for.
14. separate—to set or keep apart; not together; not joined.
15. shun—to take special pains to avoid; to keep away from.

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