6th. Grade Spelling List No. 4              

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SPELLING              

 

1.    asterisk                         6.    autonomous                11.    interested                16.    subconscious

2.    disastrous                     7.    immersion                   12.    whispered               17.    substitute   

3.    comprehensive            8.    drowned                       13.    persuaded              18.    diagonal

4.    buoyancy                      9.    interrupted                    14.    subordinate            19.    diaphragm

5.    frequency                    10.    disguised                     15.    subpoena               20.    physician

VOCABULARY    Match each word with its definition.

 

21.    commercial                a.    sympathetic adj.

22.    compassionate          b.    to declare guilty; to sentence v.

23.    contrite                        c.    feeling deeply sorry for having sinned adj.

24.    conceit                        d.    having to do with business or trade adj.

25.    condemn                    e.    vanity n.

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26.    condescend               a.    a list of books and articles on a particular subject n.

27.    deficiency                   b.    the story of one's life, written by oneself n.

28.    autobiography            c.    to inject a vaccine into a living organism to prevent disease v.

29.    bibliography               d.    shortage; inadequacy n.

30.    inoculate                     e.    to come down to another's mental or social level v.

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31.    immigrant                   a.    a person who comes into a new country to live n.

32.    imminent                     b.    a community on the outskirts of a city n.

33.    amphibious                c.    about to happen; close at hand adj.

34.    contradict                   d.    to say the opposite v.

35.    suburb                        e.    able to live on  land and in water adj.

 

Roots                                                                        Prefixes

aster, astr        star                        bio, bious        life                                      con-, com-                with, together, completely

auto                  self                         dic, dict           to say                                 in-, im-                       into

bibli                  book                                                                                             sub-                           under, close to

                                                                                                                                 dia-                            through, between, across