8th. Grade Spelling List No. 10
Spelling Rules Keys to Good Spelling
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Spelling - Words ending in -ence, ance; -ency, -ancy; -ent, -ant. Apply "Keys to Good Spelling" #4.
1. absence2. acquaintance
3. apparent
4. assistance
5. attendance
6. buoyancy
7. competent
8. constancy
9. despondency
10. disappearance
11. excellent
12. existence
13. incandescence
14. insurance
15. intelligence
16. pleasant
17. resistance
18. tendency
19. vagrancy
20. warrant
Vocabulary Sentences for each word located below definitions.
1. baffle verb (bafflement, noun, and baffler, noun)
frustrate, confound, foil
2. deface verb (defacement, noun, and defacer, noun)
disfigure, mar, damage
3. futile adj. (futility, noun)
vain, useless, unavailing
4. harbor verb (harborer, noun)
protect, secure, shelter
5. labored adj.
forced, strained, unnatural
6. levee noun
embankment, dike, dam
7. mantle noun
loose, sleeveless coat
8. mauve adj.
light reddish or grayish purple
9. pomp noun
splendor and magnificence
10. veranda noun
open porch
Vocabulary Sentences
1. Our Lord can confuse His enemies and completely baffle their efforts.
Our Lord can confuse His enemies and completely frustrate, confound, foil their efforts.
2. It is illegal to deface our American currency.
It is illegal to disfigure, mar, damage our American currency.
3. All attempts to destroy the Jews have been futile, because God has always intervened.
All attempts to destroy the Jews have been vain, useless, unavailing, because God has always intervened.
4. Those who harbor criminals involve themselves in crime.
Those who protect, secure, shelter criminals involve themselves in crime.
5. As we struggled up the mountainside, our breathing became more and more labored.
As we struggled up the mountainside, our breathing became more and more forced, strained, unnatural.
6. Broad fields of sugar cane...came down to the narrow levee which protects them from the floods.
Broad fields of sugar cane...came down to the narrow embankment, dike, dam which protects them from the floods. ---B. Taylor
7. Elisha took up the mantle of Elijah, which dropped to the ground when Elijah was caught up into heaven.
Elisha took up the loose, sleeveless coat of Elijah, which dropped to the ground when Elijah was caught up into heaven.
8. The autumn sunset painted the sky above the canyon with muted shades of mauve and russet.
The autumn sunset painted the sky above the canyon with muted shades of light reddish or grayish purple and russet.
9. The prince was married in Westminster Cathedral with all the pomp that royalty could afford.
The prince was married in Westminster Cathedral with all the splendor and magnificence that royalty could afford.
10. Potted geraniums lined the veranda of the restored colonial home.
Potted geraniums lined the open porch of the restored colonial home.