Spellling List 11 for the Week of November 1-5

1. surrounded
2. skiing
3. swimming
4. loving
5. studied
6. traveling
7. carried
8. trading
9. bragged
10. worried
11. beginning
12. exciting
13. finished
14. laughed
15. quickest
16. weaker
17. tiniest
18. lonelier

Vocabulary

1. rustic: adjective: having to do with the countryside, not the city.  The rustic cabin looked out of place in the suburban neighborhood.
2. lapse: noun: 1. a small mistake or failure. 2. the passing of time. Forgive my lapse of good table manners, but it's been a two-year lapse since I've eaten in a fancy restaurant.
3. correspond: verb: 1. to communicate in writing. 2. to match in some way. When you correspond with someone in Japan, you have to write the Japanese pictographs that correspond to that person's address.
4. coy: adjective: shy or bashful. The coy child hid behind her mother when a stranger came to the door.

Spelling and Vocabulary List 10 for the Week of October 25

1. stalk
2. off
3. because
4. brought
5. called
6. drawn
7. awful
8. awkward
9. lawyer
10. daughter
11. fault
12. author
13. always
14. already
15. although
16. belong
17. office
18. haul

Vocabulary

1. falsehood: noun: a lie or an untruth. Antonym: truth. Sheila's claim that she met a movie star when she visited Los Angeles turned out ot be a falsehood. She merely saw a famous actor in a restaurant.
2. navigate: verb: to steer or direct the course of a ship or an aircraft. To navigate a ship in heavy for is difficult because you can't see where the ship is headed.
3. kindling: noun: dried twigs or small pieces of wood used to start a fire.  The boys had to search the ground for kindling before they could build a campfire.
4. domestic: adjective: 1. related to the home or family. 2. tame; not wild. Although I enjoy most domestic activities, I hate cleaning up after our domestic ferret.

Spelling and Vocabulary List 9 for the Week of October 18-22

1. baby-sit
2. first aid
3. flashlight
4. high school
5. goalkeeper
6. all right
7. airmail
8. one-way
9. bodyguard
10. something
11. good-bye
12. birthday
13. outside
14. everybody
15. everyone
16. anything
17. themselves
18. himself

   REVIEW WORD: doesn't

Vocabulary

1. amateur: noun: a person who does something for pleasure, not for pay. If you excel in a sport as an amateur, you may be good enough to get paid to do it as a professional athlete.
2. rebellion: noun: a show of opposition to a form of authority. The Minutemen were an important part of the American colonials' rebellion against Britain.
3. appease: verb: to make calmer by giving in to demands. synonym: satisfy. The band came back on stage and played another song to appease its screaming fans.
4. partial: adjective: 1. not complete 2. unfair favor to one side. My teacher will not accept partial homework assignments, even from the students she seems to be partial to.

Spelling and Vocabulary List 8 for the Week of October 11-15

List 8

1. spoil
2. choice
3. avoid
4. moisture
5. oyster
6. royal
7. employ
8. annoy
9. ground
10. house
11. sprout
12. mountain
13. allow
14. ourselves
15. somehow
16. ounce
17. amount
18. boundary

Vocabulary

1. gratify: verb: to give pleasure or satidfaction.  Angela's good grades in school will gratify her parents.
2. impartial: adjective: not favoring one over the other. Synonym: fair. It was hard for the referee to be impartial when his son's team was playing.
3. knoll: noun: a small, rounded hill. We climbed to the top of the knoll to get a clear view of the sunset.
4. tolerate: verb: to put up with something. Synonym: endure. When my dog could no longer tolerate the kitten's playful nibbling, he turned around and barked at her.