A Graded List of Common Words Difficult to SpellD.C. Heath & Company, 1891 - 88 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
abbreviation accented adze affix beginning Alaska answer offer yacht apostrophe appear answer offer averse 18 bind appear answer bleat 16 bony 15 Briton business happiness pitied Cadmus Cæsar consonant crockery 19 děf dictionary DUPLICATE BROWN UNIVERSITY Exceptions.-1 final consonant formed by adding frequently misspelled gimlet glycerin Gorgons gouge 24 griddle 24 grown 19 Harvard College hinge 17 Idaho knife 21 knob 21 kōr ladle 15 leak 23 lesson letters lizard marriage Ne'ther is better ni'ther Nouns ending number of words pail 25 PENNIMAN Instructor Perseus pincers 9 plentiful 24 plural preceded pronunciation pupils quick 21 recital reptile rivet 20 scream 9 scythe sieve 23 sincere sleek not slick smear 12 sneeze 14 Sound the g sound the h SPELL Compiled spelling exercises squeal 13 staple 2 13 syllable taking an affix tureen 17 vowel weep 16 Words ending yellow not yeller zhā
Popular passages
Page 66 - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 75 - ... and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago, should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable, do commonly pass in current payment ; and when he should come to understand it, it would...
Page 73 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination?
Page 72 - I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts...
Page 73 - One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. For, as all roads lead to Rome, so do they likewise lead away from it, and you will find that, in order to understand perfectly and weigh exactly any vital piece of literature, you will be gradually and pleasantly persuaded to excursions...
Page 73 - We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties...
Page 74 - The old English plainness and sincerity, that generous integrity of nature, and honesty of disposition, which always argues true greatness of mind, and is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us.
Page 74 - ... on some curious fact illustrative of our national life, but learning also how the great heart which is beating at the centre of that life was gradually shaped and moulded. We should thus grow too in our feeling of...
Page 74 - The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts ; and if any man measure his words by his heart and speak as he thinks, and do not express more kindness to every man. than men usually have for any man, he can hardly escape the censure of rudeness and want of breeding.
Page 72 - ... to escape, in short, from the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past.