Spelling Sort 10

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Spelling Sort 10

• Adding the Suffix -ation

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Adding ation with no spelling change

• Adding the suffix ation to some words requires
  no spelling change to the base word.

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Tempt/Temptation

• To make you want something really bad.
• Dont try to tempt me with that chocolate cake!
• The temptation was too great, so I ate the whole
  slice!

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Adapt/Adaptation

• To change for survival or comfort.
• Animals can adapt to their environment.
• The frog and stingrays adaptation of blending in
  with their surroundings help them hide from
  predators.

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Plant/Plantation

• To put into the ground in order to grow
  something.
• The cotton plant was important to the South
  during the Civil War period.
• A Cotton Plantation could grow thousands of
  pounds of cotton per year.

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Consider/Consideration

• To think about others and what is best for them.
• You need to consider other peoples health when
  you sneeze.
• Show consideration for others by covering your
  nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing.

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Inform/Information

• To give people directions or instructions.
• The man is handing out flyers to inform the
  community of tonights meeting.
• What kind of information will be discussed at the
  meeting?

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Relax/Relaxation

• To rest.
• The old man likes to relax in his hammock after a
  hard day.
• His doctor told him that relaxation will help him
  to relieve stress.

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Tax/Taxation

• Money paid for goods, services, and on income.
• Remember you have to pay tax on the clothes you
  buy.
• Taxation of the people helps provide the
  government with money to run our country.

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Adding ation to words ending in e

• When a word ends in e, you must drop the e before
  adding the suffix ation.

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Quote/Quotation

• Repeating something word for word that another
  person has said.
• Abraham Lincolns quote on freedom is inspiring.
• When using a quote in a sentence it should have
  quotation marks.

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Starve/Starvation

• To be very hungry.
• If you dont feed the children, they will starve!
• Sally Lou said, I am dying of starvation over
  here!

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Civilize/Civilization

• To bring out of a savage or uneducated state.
• It will take a lot of work to civilize the cave
  men.
• Early civilizations were more advanced than the
  cave men.

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Explore/Exploration

• To go out and see what is in the world.
• The Vikings would often explore other countries.
• The Vikings exploration of other countries helped
  them to bring back new ideas to their people.

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Imagine/Imagination

• To create an image in your mind.
• I like to look at the clouds and imagine that I
  see an airplane.
• It takes a lot of imagination to see things in
  the clouds.

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Memorize/Memorization

• To put something into your mind.
• You need to memorize your multiplication tables
  for math.
• Memorization of multiplication tables is not hard.

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Organize/Organization

• To put things in order.
• How am I going to organize this mess?
• I guess that organization skills are not my cup
  of tea!