Transcript Spelling #5 PowerPoint

Unit #5
Tip of the week—
Drop the silent e at the end of a word
before adding a suffix starting with a
vowel.
exceptions— noticeable, courageous
Tip words—
1) analyzing
2) surprising
Academic Verbs—
3) infer to make an educated guess
I can infer what the character will do.
4) imply to express an idea indirectly
The author never states it, but she implies that
the character will be okay.
Commonly misspelled words—
5) exercise
ex + er + cise
Roots/prefixes/suffixes—
mal = bad
mis = bad
bene = good
post = after
6) malevolent really bad (evil)
7) misguided badly guided (lost)
8) beneficial having a good effect
9) postscript extra text added after a
book or article
Commonly confused words—
10) quit (v., to stop)
Quit whining!
11) quiet (adj., n., silent)
Be quiet at the library.
12) quite (adv., entirely)
Your spelling is quite good!