7th. Grade Spelling List No. 24

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Spelling - Commonly misspelled words.
1.  allotted²

2.    anoint

3.    battalion

4.    besiege¹

5.    desperate

6.    dictionary

7.    drier³

8.    harebrained

9.    inadvertent

10.  insistent

11.  irresistible

12.  paralyze

13.  perseverance

14.  persistent

15.  predictable

16.  sacrilegious

17.  sieve¹

18.  skillful

19.  threshold

20.  traveled²

Note:  A superscript number (^1,2 etc.) after a word indicates the spelling rule in the Spelling Rules page.

Vocabulary Sentences for each word located below definitions.

1.    collage          noun

                                       artistic arrangement of various items glued to a background

2.    converge      verb (related form:  convergence, noun)

                                      come together, meet

3.   dilemma         noun

                                       situation requiring a choice between two undesirable things

4.    dispel            verb

                                       scatter, drive away

5.    gossamer      adj.

                                       light and filmy, thin

 6.   gridiron          noun

                                       football field

7.    humiliation     noun (related form:  humiliate, verb)

                                       shame, chagrin, mortification

Vocabulary Sentences

1.    Mrs. Johnson showed us how to take several post cards and form an attractive collage.

       Mrs. Johnson showed us how to take several post cards and form an attractive artistic arrangement of various items glued to a background.

2.    According to an old saying, all roads converge at Rome.

       According to an old saying, all roads come together, meet at Rome.

3.    He was reduced to the dilemma of declaring bankruptcy or losing his business.

       He was reduced to the situation requiring a choice between two undesirable things of declaring bankruptcy or losing his business.

4.    Our faith in Christ should dispel all our fears.

       Our faith in Christ should scatter, drive away all our fears.

5.    She lay there watching the gossamer curtains fluttering softly in the evening breeze.

       She lay there watching the light and filmy, thin curtains fluttering softly in the evening breeze.

6.    Action on the gridiron held the crowd's rapt attention for two hours.

       Action on the football field held the crowd's rapt attention for two hours.

7.    Peter felt great humiliation when he heard the cock crow and realized that he had denied Christ three times in one night.

       Peter felt great shame, chagrin, mortification when he heard the corck crow and realized that he had denied Christ three times in one night.