Tip of the week

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Unit 5

• Tip of the week
• Drop the silent e at the end of a word
• before adding a suffix starting with a
• vowel.
• exceptions noticeable, courageous

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• Tip words
• 1) analyzing
• 2) surprising

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• Academic Verbs
• 3) infer to make an educated guess
• I can infer what the character will do.
• 4) imply to express an idea indirectly
• The author never states it, but she implies that
  the character will be okay.

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• Commonly misspelled words
• 5) exercise
• ex er cise

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• Roots/prefixes/suffixes
• mal bad
• mis bad
• bene good
• post after

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• 6) malevolent really bad (evil)
• 7) misguided badly guided (lost)
• 8) beneficial having a good effect
• 9) postscript extra text added after a book or
  article

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• Commonly confused words
• 10) quit (v., to stop)
• Quit whining!
• 11) quiet (adj., n., silent)
• Be quiet at the library.
• 12) quite (adv., entirely)
• Your spelling is quite good!