Practical High School Speller

Chapter 4

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{instalment} =in-stal´ment= of the machine

{indict} =in-dict´= the man for murder

{inauguration} =in-au-gu-ra´tion= of Wilson

{reimburse} =re-im-burse´= his expenses

LESSON 54

{inevitable} =in-ev´i-ta-ble= result

{ignorance} =ig´no-rance= of the subject

{longitudinal} =lon-gi-tu´di-nal= lines

{marvelous} =mar´vel-ous= escape

{maintain} =main-tain´= a large establishment

{mortise} =mor´tise= the boards

{perseverance} =per-se-ver´ance= of the inventor

{phenomena} =phe-nom´e-na= of lightning

{propagation} =prop-a-ga´tion= of the species

{polyhedral} =pol-y-he´dral= figures in geometry

{rectilinear} =rec-ti-lin´e-ar= lines

{rhetorical} =rhe-tor´i-cal= speech

{rationalization} } =ra-tion-al-i-za´tion= of the equation {rationalisation} }

{rheumatism} =rheu´ma-tism= in his arm

{resuscitate} =re-sus´ci-tate= the drowned

{ache} =ache= in my tooth

{agrarian} =a-gra´ri-an= laws

{apostrophe} =a-pos´tro-phe= before the _s_

{applied} =ap-plied´= the brakes

{appeal} =ap-peal´= the case

{appalling} =ap-pal´ling= spectacle

{appositive} =ap-pos´i-tive= phrase

{appurtenance} =ap-pur´te-nance= of the machine

{approve} =ap-prove´= his action

LESSON 55

{corpuscle} =cor´pus-cle= of the blood

{continuity} =con-ti-nu´i-ty= of his arguments

{centigrade} =cen´ti-grade= thermometer

{contemptible} =con-tempt´i-ble= behavior

{inflammation} =in-flam-ma´tion= of the wound

{colonies} =col´o-nies= of Great Britain

{contemporaneous} =con-tem-po-ra´ne-ous= authors

{feign} =feign= or pretend sleep

{fertilizing} =fer´til-iz-ing= the soil

{fief} =fief= of feudal days

{hypnotize} =hyp´no-tize= the man

{illegal} =il-le´gal= sale of liquor

{evacuate} =e-vac´u-ate= the fort

{immersed} =im-mersed´= the convert

{industrial} =in-dus´tri-al= center

{intelligent} =in-tel´li-gent= man

{inertia} =in-er´tia= of the mass

{influence} =in´flu-ence= of a mother

{lease} =lease= the house

{mandible} =man´di-ble= of the crawfish

{moccasin} =moc´ca-sin= worn by the Indian

{preference} =pref´er-ence= for money

{preliminary} =pre-lim´i-na-ry= examination

{pleurisy} =pleu´ri-sy= is a disease

{percolator} =per´co-la-tor= for making coffee

LESSON 56

{nonchalant} =non´cha-lant= manner

{piercing} =pier´cing= shriek

{pollination} =pol-li-na´tion= of the flowers

{personification} =per-son-i-fi-ca´tion= of the sun

{precipice} =prec´i-pice= of rock

{primitive} =prim´i-tive= man

{prestige} =pres-tige´= of high position

{possessor} =pos-sess´or= of a large fortune

{punctuation} =punc-tu-a´tion= of a sentence

{palette} =pal´ette= for the artist's paints

{palate} =pal´ate back= of the tongue

{practiced} =prac´ticed= his lesson

{vinculum} =vin´cu-lum= over the numbers

{veterinary} =vet´er-i-na-ry= surgeon

{resonance} =res´o-nance= of the organ

{revenue} =rev´e-nue= stamps

{reverence} =rev´er-ence= for old age

{reversible} =re-vers´i-ble= cuffs

{rescind} =re-scind´= the order

{requirement} =re-quire´ment= for entrance

{radiate} =ra´di-ate= the heat

{relatively} =rel´a-tive-ly= speaking

{relevant} =rel´e-vant= to the subject

{pharynx} =phar´ynx=, part of alimentary canal

{reinforced} =re-in-forced´= concrete

LESSON 57

{tyrannical} =ty-ran´ni-cal= government

{technically} =tech´ni-cal-ly= speaking

{trinomial} =tri-no´mi-al= equation

{trousseau} =trous-seau´= for the bride

{systematically} =sys-tem-at´ic-al-ly= arranged

{synthetic} =syn-thet´ic= rubies made in France

{syndicate} =syn´di-cate= with large capital

{synthesis} =syn´the-sis= is combination

{suburbs} =sub´urbs= of the city

{substitute} =sub´sti-tute= for the original

{stimulus} =stim´u-lus= to work

{parliamentary} =par-lia-men´ta-ry= law

{proprietary} =pro-pri´et-a-ry= rights

{solecisms} =sol´e-cisms= of speech

{soliloquy} =so-lil´o-quy= of Hamlet

{silhouette} =sil-hou-ette´= against the screen

{scientific} =sci-en-tif´ic= treatment

{symbols} =sym´bols= used in chemistry

{accede} =ac-cede´= to our request

{accessory} =ac-ces´so-ry= before the fact

{accident} =ac´ci-dent= on the railroad

{accomplish} =ac-com´plish= his purpose

{consummate} =con-sum´mate= his desire

{conspiracy} =con-spir´a-cy= against the king

{concurrent} =con-cur´rent= with the event

LESSON 58

{concession} =con-ces´sion= of the government

{committal} =com-mit´tal= to jail

{commerce} =com´merce= between nations

{colleague} =col´league= in the faculty

{collector} =col-lec´tor= of bills

{dissociation} =dis-so-ci-a´tion= of ideas

{divisibility} =di-vis-i-bil´i-ty= of the number

{deceased} =de-ceased´= husband

{decomposition} =de-com-po-si´tion= of matter

{encyclopedia} =en-cy-clo-pe´di-a= Britannica

{exhilarate} =ex-hil´a-rate= or enliven

{enforceable} =en-force´a-ble= by law

{electrolytic} =e-lec-tro-lyt´ic= apparatus

{ingredients} =in-gre´di-ents= of the mixture

{initiative} =in-i´ti-a-tive= and referendum

{insurrection} =in-sur-rec´tion= of the natives

{intersection} =in-ter-sec´tion= of the lines

{irrigation} =ir-ri-ga´tion= of the desert

{irascible} =i-ras´ci-ble= disposition

{martial} =mar´tial= music

{moreover} =more-o´ver= we must go

{minutiae} =mi-nu´ti-ae= of little consequence

{metallurgy} =met´al-lur-gy= studied in college

{mentally} =men´tal-ly= deficient

{changing} =chang´ing= her dress

LESSON 59

{modern} =mod´ern= fashions

{possible} =pos´si-ble= to do it

{poplar} =pop´lar= tree

{popular} =pop´u-lar= song

{political} =po-lit´i-cal= speech

{peculiarity} =pe-cu-li-ar´i-ty= of the man

{papacy} =pa´pa-cy= at Rome

{paging} =pag´ing= the book

{physics} =phys´ics= studied in school

{ruffian} =ruf´fi-an= attacked him

{rectangle} =rect´an-gle= is a quadrilateral

{sandwiches} =sand´wich-es= made of ham

{sacrilegious} =sac-ri-le´gious= speech

{sacrilege} =sac´ri-lege= against the church

{sincere} =sin-cere´= friend

{scheme} =scheme= to make money

{accustomed} =ac-cus´tomed= to hard work

{allegory} =al´le-go-ry= of "Pilgrim's Progress"

{allowed} =al-lowed´= him his expenses

{ally} =al-ly´= of the English

{assassin} =as-sas´sin= of McKinley

{assault} =as-sault´= and battery

{ambassador} =am-bas´sa-dor= to France

{attention} =at-ten´tion= to the lesson

{aluminum} =a-lu´mi-num= cooking utensils

LESSON 60

{acquisition} =ac-qui-si´tion= of the property

{pasteurized} =pas´teur-ized= milk

{coercion} =co-er´cion= by the Powers

{classicism} =clas´si-cism= of the poet

{chivalry} =chiv´al-ry= of the knight

{chiffonier} =chif-fo-nier´= made of oak

{chaperon} =chap´er-on= the young couple

{modal} =mo´dal= form of verb

{model} =mod´el= of the machine

{catastrophe} =cat-as´tro-phe= on the railroad

{cashmere} =cash´mere= dress

{celery} =cel´er-y= for dinner

{catarrh} =ca-tarrh´= of the throat

{determine} =de-ter´mine= his meaning

{discourage} =dis-cour´age= his efforts

{diagramming} =di´a-gram-ming= the sentence

{isolated} =is´o-la-ted= on an island

{lessee} =les-see´= paid his rent

{legend} =leg´end= of "Sleepy Hollow"

{legion} =le´gion= of soldiers

{league} =league= of baseball teams

{moisture} =mois´ture= in the atmosphere

{molecules} =mol´e-cules= of elements

{monarchy} =mon´arch-y= ruled by a king

{machine} =ma-chine´= for making shoes

LESSON 61

{persecuted} =per´se-cu-ted= the Christians

{pieces} =pie´ces= of glass

{poured} =poured= the water

{picture} =pic´ture= of his home

{precise} =pre-cise´= moment

{piazza} =pi-az´za= of the house

{petroleum} =pe-tro´le-um= cream

{patriotic} =pa-tri-ot´ic= citizen

{swords} =swords= for fighting

{sacrifice} =sac´ri-fice= his honor

{salmon} =salm´on= from the river

{salve} =salve= on the wound

{sapphire} =sap´phire= and diamond ring

{satisfactorily} =sat-is-fac´to-ri-ly= explained

{saving} =sav´ing= his money

{scarred} =scarred= in a fight for life

{scenery} =sce´ner-y= in Colorado

{scholar} =schol´ar= in the university

{achieve} =a-chieve´= great renown

{annuity} =an-nu´i-ty= paid to him

{admitted} =ad-mit´ted= his guilt

{admittance} =ad-mit´tance= to the lodge

{acetic} =a-cet´ic= acid in the bottle

{academy} =a-cad´e-my= of science

{accountant} =ac-count´ant= to examine the books

LESSON 62

{ability} =a-bil´i-ty= of the boy

{acute} =a-cute´= angle

{beneficence} =be-nef´i-cence= of the gentleman

{barbarians} =bar-ba´ri-ans= of Africa

{cataract} =cat´a-ract= on the eye

{casually} =cas´u-al-ly= dropped a hint

{capillarity} =cap-il-lar´i-ty= of the soil

{calories} =cal´or-ies= of heat

{conduit} =con´duit= for underground wires

{campaigns} =cam-paigns´= of Napoleon

{candor} =can´dor= of the honest man

{filaments} =fil´a-ments= of silk

{hygienic} =hy-gi-en´ic= exercise

{patriotism} =pa´tri-ot-ism= of the soldier

{performance} =per-form´ance= of the actors

{period} =pe´ri-od= after a sentence

{patience} =pa´tience= of the good mother

{scythe} =scythe= for cutting grass

{sigh} =sigh= of the weary

{secretaries} =sec´re-tar-ies= wrote reports

{section} =sec´tion= of the Pullman

{senate} =sen´ate= passed the bill

{sepals} =sep´als= of the flower

{liniment} =lin´i-ment= for a sprain

{lineament} =lin´e-a-ment= of the face

LESSON 63

{adaptability} =a-dapt-a-bil´i-ty= to circumstances

{adjective} =adj´ec-tive= of quality

{aeroplane} =a´er-o-plane= accident

{advancement} =ad-vance´ment= to a good position

{admire} =ad-mire´= the beautiful

{albumen} =al-bu´men= of the egg

{caloric} =ca-lor´ic= theory of heat

{cellar} =cel´lar= under the house

{centimeter} =cen´ti-me-ter= in length

{chemistry} =chem´is-try= studied at school

{chisel} =chis´el= for carpentering

{cinnamon} =cin´na-mon= flavor

{circuit} =cir´cuit= court in session

{coincident} =co-in´ci-dent= angles

{collars} =col´lars= of white linen

{commissioner} =com-mis´sion-er= of education

{community} =com-mu´ni-ty= in which he lives

{company} =com´pa-ny= of soldiers

{companies} =com´pa-nies= of soldiers

{disappointing} =dis-ap-point´ing= result

{discrepancy} =dis-crep´an-cy= in the accounts

{element} =el´e-ment= of danger

{equipment} =e-quip´ment= of the regiment

{geyser} =gey´ser= in Yellowstone Park

{hemorrhage} =hem´or-rhage= of the lungs

LESSON 64

{isthmus} =isth´mus= of Panama

{oligarchy} =ol´i-gar-chy= in ancient Rome

{pores} =pores= of the skin

{liquefaction} =liq-ue-fac´tion= of ice

{vice versa} =vice versa=, that is, turned about

{villainy} =vil´lain-y= of the rascal

{recompense} =rec´om-pense= the faithful

{regions} =re´gions= of perpetual snow

{routes} =routes= of the travelers

{traceable} =trace´a-ble= lines

{treatise} =trea´tise= on art

{traveler} =trav´el-er= through Italy

{traitor} =trai´tor= to his country

{transpose} =trans-pose´= the phrase

{several} =sev´er-al= years ago

{service} =ser´vice= in the army

{sheriff} =sher´iff= of the county

{shipment} =ship´ment= of the goods

{alkaline} =al´ka-line= solution

{analogous} =a-nal´o-gous= terms

{anarchy} =an´arch-y= against the government

{anoints} =a-noints´= his head with oil

{answer} =an´swer= the question

{antiquity} =an-tiq´ui-ty= of the relic

{aristocrat} =ar-is´to-crat= by birth

LESSON 65

{ascension} =as-cen´sion= of the balloon

{armor} =ar´mor= of the knight

{articles} =ar´ti-cles= for sale

{believing} =be-liev´ing= the story

{borough} =bor´ough= of Manhattan

{borrow} =bor´row= the money

{barrel} =bar´rel= of sugar

{compelled} =com-pelled´= to resign

{competition} =com-pe-ti´tion= in business

{completely} =com-plete´ly= finished

{conceit} =con-ceit´= of the boastful

{consequent} =con´se-quent= result

{consistency} =con-sist´en-cy= of the mixture

{contagious} =con-ta´gious= disease

{casualty} =cas´u-al-ty= insurance

{crevice} =crev´ice= in the rock

{covetous} =cov´et-ous= of his wealth

{discernment} =dis-cern´ment= of the wise

{dissatisfied} =dis-sat´is-fied= with his treatment

{dissenter} =dis-sent´er= in the church

{emigrate} =em´i-grate= from America

{immigrate} =im´mi-grate= to America

{following} =fol´low-ing= the crowd

{forbade} =for-bade´= him to go

{granary} =gran´a-ry= for storing wheat

LESSON 66

{grabbed} =grabbed= the money

{going} =go´ing= to sail

{ghost} =ghost= of Hamlet

{harmonically} =har-mon´ic-al-ly= composed

{irrational} =ir-ra´tion-al= statement

{irregular} =ir-reg´u-lar= proceedings

{journey} =jour´ney= to Mexico

{judicial} =ju-di´cial= decree

{manufacture} =man-u-fac´tur-er= of guns

{margin} =mar´gin= of the page

{merry} =mer´ry= Christmas

{marry} =mar´ry= the girl

{married} =mar´ried= in church

{necessitate} =ne-ces´si-tate= an explanation

{octagon} =oc´ta-gon= used in the design

{potential} =po-ten´tial= mode

{predecessor} =pred-e-ces´sor= in office

{presbytery} =pres´by-ter-y= in session

{visible} =vis´i-ble= to the naked eye

{radius} =ra´di-us= of a circle

{radii} =ra´di-i= of the circles

{raisins} =rai´sins= in the pudding

{recent} =re'cent= event

{remit} =re-mit´= the money

{ferocious} =fe-ro´cious= animal

LESSON 67

{sine} =sine= in trigonometry

{sign} =sign= of bad weather

{size} =size= of the barrel

{skeleton} =skel´e-ton= of a man

{social} =so´cial= gathering

{something} =some´thing= new

{stamens} =sta´mens= of the flowers

{parasitic} =par-a-sit´ic= plant

{around} =a-round´= the world

{audience} =au´di-ence= with the Pope

{auricle} =au´ri-cle= of the heart

{awful} =aw´ful= disaster

{awfulness} =aw´ful-ness= of the murder

{axis} =ax´is= of the earth

{axle} =ax´le= of the wheel

{borne} =borne= on his shoulders

{brilliant} =bril´liant= display

{biology} =bi-ol´o-gy= of plants

{bookkeeper} =book´keep-er= in the store

{bluing} =blu´ing= the clothes

{bargain} =bar´gain= sale of hats

{breed} =breed= of chickens

{cousin} =cous´in= from the country

{census} =cen´sus= of the population

{coöperate} =co-op´er-ate= in the work

LESSON 68

{cyclone} =cy´clone= cellar

{cycle} =cy´cle= of years

{cruise} =cruise= around the world

{crews} =crews= of the vessels

{cruelly} =cru´el-ly= treated

{credit} =cred´it= of the merchant

{crucible} =cru´ci-ble= for melting gold

{contents} =con´tents= of the bottle

{cabinet} =cab´i-net= officers

{civil} =civ´il= government

{central} =cen´tral= station

{catch} =catch= the fish

{cannot} =can´not= tell a lie

{comma} =com´ma= after the word

{coupon} =cou´pon= attached to the ticket

{copy} =cop´y= the words

{copied} =cop´ied= the words

{continental} =con-ti-nen´tal= troops

{coast} =coast= down the hill

{city} =cit´y= of New York

{cities} =cit´ies= and towns

{citizen} =cit´i-zen= of the United States

{dissipate} =dis´si-pate= a fortune

{dividend} =div´i-dend= paying stock

{don't} =don't= smoke cigarettes

LESSON 69

{distillate} =dis-til´late= of the solution

{disguised} =dis-guised´= as a soldier

{discovery} =dis-cov´er-y= of America

{duly} =du´ly= signed and witnessed

{Deity} =De´i-ty= to whom we pray

{dative} =da´tive= case

{resurrection} =res-ur-rec´tion= of the dead

{endorser} =en-dor´ser= of the note

{enormous} =e-nor´mous= profits

{enthusiasm} =en-thu´si-asm= of the students

{enterprise} =en´ter-prise= of the merchant

{exterior} =ex-te´ri-or= of the building

{epoch} =ep´och= in history

{executive} =ex-ec´u-tive= chamber

{earnest} =ear´nest= request

{forward} =for´ward= march

{formulae} =for´mu-læ= for the mixtures

{formula} =for´mu-la= for the mixture

{fulfilment} =ful-fil´ment= of his promise

{fuel} =fu´el= for the fire

{further} =fur´ther= discussion

{farther} =far´ther= away than Chicago

{ghastly} =ghast´ly= sight

{gnat} =gnat= buzzing about

{getting} =get´ting= something for nothing

LESSON 70

{inoculation} =in-oc-u-la´tion= to prevent disease

{guess} =guess= the number

{gaiety} =gai´e-ty= of the crowd

{haughty} =haugh´ty= noble

{horizontally} =hor-i-zon´tal-ly= drawn

{historical} =his-tor´i-cal= collection

{hostility} =hos-til´i-ty= of the nations

{hundred} =hun´dred= dollars

{hammer} =ham´mer= the nail

{happened} =hap´pened= by accident

{hope} =hope= for the best

{hop} =hop= on one foot

{heroes} =he´roes= of the war

{graph} =graph= of the population

{insolvency} =in-solv´en-cy= of the bank

{inventories} =in´ven-tor-ies= of the supplies

{investment} =in-vest´ment= of the money

{introduce} =in-tro-duce´= the speaker

{interfered} =in-ter-fered´= with his progress

{intolerable} =in-tol´er-a-ble= heat

{intercede} =in-ter-cede´= for him

{instead} =in-stead´= of playing, work

{inserted} =in-sert´ed= in the socket

{innocent} =in´no-cent= child

{indictment} =in-dict´ment= for murder

LESSON 71

{indeterminate} =in-de-ter´mi-nate= sentence

{incumbrance} =in-cum´brance= of old debts

{incentive} =in-cen´tive= to work

{juicy} =jui´cy= fruit

{kinetic} =ki-net´ic= energy

{knock} =knock= at the door

{lens} =lens= of the microscope

{lettuce} =let´tuce= salad

{lovable} =lov´a-ble= child

{lonely} =lone´ly= farmhouse

{liter} =li´ter= of water

{lever} =lev´er= of the machine

{likely} =like´ly= to happen

{laugh} =laugh= at the joke

{manufactories} =man-u-fac´to-ries= of the city

{medicine} =med´i-cine= to cure him

{medicinal} =me-dic´i-nal= virtues

{medium} =me´di-um= sized bear

{metallic} =met-al´lic= ring

{mountainous} =moun´tain-ous= country

{mosquito} =mos-qui´to= bites

{molecular} =mo-lec´u-lar= theory

{moustache} =mous-tache´= was shaved off

{much} =much= ado about nothing

{prize} =prize= for spelling

LESSON 72

{muscle} =mus´cle= of the arm

{mussel} =mus´sel= on the seashore

{muzzle} =muz´zle= the dog

{mustard} =mus´tard= plaster

{neutralize} =neu´tral-ize= the solution

{nutrients} =nu´tri-ents= in food

{narration} =nar-ra´tion= of the story

{noun} =noun= is a part of speech