Tip of the week

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Unit 10

• Tip of the week
• If a word ends in y and is preceded by a
  consonant, usually the y is changed to i when
  adding suffixes not starting with i.
• exceptions dryness, fryer

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• Tip words
• 1) enjoying
• 2) marrying

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• Academic Verbs
• 3) contextualize to mention important related
  information
• Contextualize a quote that you use as evidence
  in an essay mention which character is being
  talked about and when.
• 4) reject to refuse to accept
• Many animal trainers reject the saying that an
  old dog cant learn new tricks.

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• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) attendance
• Did they take attendance at the tenth dance?
• 6) cafeteria
• The cafeteria is named Café Teri.

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• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• cis to cut
• bio life
• graph to write (or record)
• photo light

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• 7) concise to cut to the chase
• using the right words
• 8) biography writing about ones life
• 9) photograph a recording of light on film
• 10) photosynthesis using light to make something
  (put together)

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• Commonly confused words
• 11) conscious (adj.) aware
• Are you conscious of your snoring?
• 12) conscience (n.) the feeling of morality
• Lying goes against my conscience.