Kimball's Business Speller: Designed for Use in Commercial Schools, Academies, Normal Schools, High Schools & the Higher Grades of the Common SchoolsBobbs-Merrill Company, 1905 - 141 pages |
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Results 1-5 of 15
Page 4
... clothing ; peace , peaceable ; courage , courageous ; agree , agreeable ; free , freer , freest , freeing ; mile , mileage ; acre , acreage ; move , movement . Exception 1. - Hoe , toe , shoe ; dye , singe , springe , swinge and tinge ...
... clothing ; peace , peaceable ; courage , courageous ; agree , agreeable ; free , freer , freest , freeing ; mile , mileage ; acre , acreage ; move , movement . Exception 1. - Hoe , toe , shoe ; dye , singe , springe , swinge and tinge ...
Page 15
... cloth , covering the ankle . or tan color . goat ' skin , leather made from the săn ' dal , a kind of shoe with the sole skin of a goat . grāin ' ing , a process in dressing leather , imitating morocco , etc. heel , lower back part of a ...
... cloth , covering the ankle . or tan color . goat ' skin , leather made from the săn ' dal , a kind of shoe with the sole skin of a goat . grāin ' ing , a process in dressing leather , imitating morocco , etc. heel , lower back part of a ...
Page 23
... clothes . pěd ' i gree ' , lineage . če elē şi ăs ' tie al , of or pertaining to per eŭs ' sion , act or effect of striking . the church . plăn ' et , a celestial body .. flip ' pant , trifling ; talkative ; shallow pro pi ' tious ...
... clothes . pěd ' i gree ' , lineage . če elē şi ăs ' tie al , of or pertaining to per eŭs ' sion , act or effect of striking . the church . plăn ' et , a celestial body .. flip ' pant , trifling ; talkative ; shallow pro pi ' tious ...
Page 32
... cloth , etc. in ' grain , a kind of carpet dyed in the grain , or before manufacture . lace , a fabric , much used for curtains . lăm ' bre quin ( -bẽr kin ) , an orna- mental drapery for mantels , etc. li nō'le um , a hard floor - cloth ...
... cloth , etc. in ' grain , a kind of carpet dyed in the grain , or before manufacture . lace , a fabric , much used for curtains . lăm ' bre quin ( -bẽr kin ) , an orna- mental drapery for mantels , etc. li nō'le um , a hard floor - cloth ...
Page 47
... cloth . dăm ' ask , silk , woven with a pattern of flowers . děn ' im , a coarse cotton drilling . doi'ly , a small mat - like table napkin . brō cade ' , cloth wrought with raised făb ' rie , cloth of any kind . flowers , etc. gauze ...
... cloth . dăm ' ask , silk , woven with a pattern of flowers . děn ' im , a coarse cotton drilling . doi'ly , a small mat - like table napkin . brō cade ' , cloth wrought with raised făb ' rie , cloth of any kind . flowers , etc. gauze ...
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å ble ançe ANTONYMS NOTE āte Bachelor of Laws bûrg căn capital çent cial cious cloth Consult your dictionary děn denarius děs DICTATION EXERCISE Consult dictionary for meaning electric flowers following words fôr Homophonous words,-what inflammation instrument kind lăn lĕe Legal Maxim LESSON măn māte meaning of words měn ment MISCELLANEOUS nate ness opposite in meaning pair is opposite pär pěl pěn person pertaining pōrt Săn second word ship sion SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS těl těn tēr tial tion tive tõr trăns tūde tûr ture vēr vessel words in sentences writing
Popular passages
Page 48 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page ix - Words of one syllable or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Page 112 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Page 117 - Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Page xi - At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Association held in Washington, DC, July 7, 1898, the action of the Department of Superintendence was approved, and the list of words with simplified spelling adopted for use in all publications of the National Educational Association as follows...
Page 102 - The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it...
Page 41 - Cessante ratione legis, cessat ipsa lex. Reason is the soul of the law, and when the reason of any particular law ceases, so does the law itself.
Page 35 - Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
Page 16 - Great talents for conversation requires to be accompanied with great politeness. He who eclipses others, owes them great civilities ; and whatever a mistaken vanity may tell us, it is better to please in conversation, than to shine in it.
Page ix - Primitive words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change y into i when adding a suffix beginning with any other letter than i.