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The exercises below ask you to type in the words you see below, after reading a phonetic spelling of each word. abhorrence, accommodate, acknowledgment, acquaintance, adviser, acquit, alleged, already, aficionado, asinine, argument, auxiliary bachelor, ballistic, burqa, bankruptcy, bellwether, benefited, berserk, bona fide, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, baccalaureate, barbiturate caffeine, colossal, corroborate, Caribbean, counterfeit, compatible, conceive, congratulations, conscience, conscious, coup d’etat, connoisseur deity, demagogue, dependent, desirable, disservice, definitely, do’s and don’ts, dumbfounded, drought, disc jockey, desiccate, dilemma, Dr Pepper eerie, eighth, embarrass, emphysema, especially, exaggerate, exhilarating, exorbitant, explanation, endeavor, employee, espresso February, financier, fiery, fluorescent, foreign, fortunately, forfeit, fraudulent, fuchsia, fulfill, facetious, feasible gaudy, genealogy, garrulous, gauge, glamorous, goodbye, grammar, grievance, guarantee, guerrilla, gaiety, garish harebrained, heroes, height, heir, hemorrhage, hierarchy, hitchhiker, hygiene, homicide, hysterical, handkerchief, harass illegitimate, irascible, iridescent, inconvenience, independent, innuendo, intercede, Internet, irrelevant, irresistible, ifs and buts, illegible jeopardy, jewelry , judgment, judicious, khaki, kidnapped, kimono, kindergarten, knowledgeable, keenness laboratory, loneliness, legitimate, leisure, liaison, license, likable, lightning, likelihood, luscious, lieutenant, legerdemain malarkey, marijuana, meander, mayonnaise, medicine, memento, mimicked, miscellaneous, mischievous, misspell, manageable, maneuver, matriculate naive, nuisance, neighbor, niece, noticeable, occasion, occurrence, OK’d, ordinarily, omitted, newsstand, nickel, Oyez paraphernalia, paralyzed, peaceable, perseverance, presumptuous, prerogative, precede, privilege, Philippines, pursue, parallel, particularly quandary, query, questionnaire, queue, religious, reminiscence, receipt, rhyme, rhythm, rock ‘n’ roll, reconnoiter, ridiculous, repressible sacrilegious, soothe, scissors, seizure, silhouette, sizable, skiing, subpoena, surveillance, symmetry, schedule, short-lived teenage, temperamental, thoroughly, transferal, tournament, twelfth, truly, tumultuous, tying, tyrannous, theater, toward uncontrollable, undoubtedly, usable, vacuum, vacillate, vengeance, vicious, villain, veterinary, vilify, volume, virtually Wednesday, weird, wherever, willful, wiry, witticism, wondrous, X-ray, zany, zucchini, wholly, wiener More Practice26 of the most commonly misspelled words |
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