Tip of the week

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Unit 3

• Tip of the week
• If adding a ness or ly ending, do not cut off
  the spelling of the base word.
• exceptions words ending in y that change to
  itip to be studied in a future week

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• Tip words
• 1) definitely
• 2) sincerely

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• Academic Verbs
• 3) refute to argue or prove false
• I will refute the writers argument because of
  his weak evidence.
• 4) counterto oppose or argue against
• I plan to counter the other speakers claim.

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• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) fortunately
• Wasnt it fortunate that I ate today?

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• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• de down
• equi equal
• dis away
• extra beyond

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• 6) descend to go down
• 7) equilateral having equal sides
• 8) dismiss to send away
• 9) extraordinary beyond ordinary

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• Commonly confused words
• 10) there (adv., used to describe a
• situation or location)
• There are many books.
• 11) theyre (contr. for they are)
• Theyre avid readers.
• 12) their (poss.belongs to them)
• Thats their teacher.