Tip of the week

1
Unit 18

• Tip of the week
• For a multi-syllable word, you usually do NOT
  double the final consonant before adding a suffix
  that starts with a vowel.

2

• Tip words
• 1) finalist
• 2) centered

3

• Academic Verbs
• 3) justify to show a satisfactory reason or
  defense for something cleared of guilt, excused
• Is the character justified in her anger toward
  her dad?
• 4) eliminate to get rid of (thoroughly)
• Eliminate repeated sentence starters.

4

• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) acceptable
• ac cept able (two cs)
• 6) loneliness
• lone li ness

5

• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• pond to weigh
• corp body
• dorm sleep
• pater/patri father

6

• 7) ponder to think carefully, as in the weight
  of a decision
• 8) corps a body (unit) of peoplenot to be
  confused with corpse, a dead body
• 9) dormant asleep, not active
• 10) patriarch father figure, leader

7

• Commonly confused words
• 11) whos (contr. for who is)
• Whos going?
• 12) whose (poss. pro.n., used for ownership)
• Whose book is this?