Transcript Spelling Unit 13 PowerPoint

Unit #13
Tip of the week—
Do NOT double the final consonant
before adding –ing, -ed, -er, or –est
in one-syllable words with w or x
endings.
exceptions– related rules to be learned in future weeks
Tip words—
1) mowing
2) waxed
Academic Verbs—
3) evoke to bring about, conjure up
The writer evokes a sad mood in the poem.
4) negate to go against or contradict; to void
The counter argument negates the claim of the topic
sentence.
Commonly misspelled words—
5) dependent
There’s a dent in dependent.
6) privilege
I’m not privileged to have a vile
leg.
Roots/prefixes/suffixes—
mis/mit = to send
biblio = book
centri = center
homo = same
7) emit to send out
8) bibliography a record of one’s
source books
9) concentric shapes that share the
same center together
10) homonym words that have the same
name (nym)—spelling—but mean two
different things (n. wind versus v. wind)
Commonly confused words—
11) threw (past tense verb)
Jake threw the ball.
12) through (adv./prep.)
We will walk through the
auditorium.