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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Page 90
... vēr ( or lěv ́er ) , a bar used to exert a pressure or sustain a weight . lō cō mō ' tive , a self - propelling steam engine . loom , a machine for weaving cloth . mi erŎm ' e ter , an instrument for making minute measurements . pin ...
... vēr ( or lěv ́er ) , a bar used to exert a pressure or sustain a weight . lō cō mō ' tive , a self - propelling steam engine . loom , a machine for weaving cloth . mi erŎm ' e ter , an instrument for making minute measurements . pin ...
Page 107
... vēr ' si ty , a school for promoting of books . education in the higher branches . LESSON 158 DICTATION EXERCISE Consult your dictionary for the meaning of words . A Briton is a native of Great Britain.2 I am quite confident that I did ...
... vēr ' si ty , a school for promoting of books . education in the higher branches . LESSON 158 DICTATION EXERCISE Consult your dictionary for the meaning of words . A Briton is a native of Great Britain.2 I am quite confident that I did ...
Page 110
... vēr ize , to reduce to powder . děm ' ȧ gogue , an unprincipled leader . de mean or , behavior ; bearing . dôr ' mant , inoperative . smug ' gle , to convey in secret ; to ex- port or import unlawfully . stim ' u lus , incentive to ...
... vēr ize , to reduce to powder . děm ' ȧ gogue , an unprincipled leader . de mean or , behavior ; bearing . dôr ' mant , inoperative . smug ' gle , to convey in secret ; to ex- port or import unlawfully . stim ' u lus , incentive to ...
Page 115
... inroad relative responsible district species survey accurate insensible precise penury arduous surface odor glow preference review trace precept LESSON 171 NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISING ǎd vēr tis ' ing WORDS AND DEFINITIONS 115.
... inroad relative responsible district species survey accurate insensible precise penury arduous surface odor glow preference review trace precept LESSON 171 NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISING ǎd vēr tis ' ing WORDS AND DEFINITIONS 115.
Page 116
... vēr tis ' ing , making a business | news ' pā per , a printed sheet giving ăn ' nu al , issued once a year ; occur- nō ' tiçe , an article in the regular news column . eŎl ' ŭmn , a perpendicular division of quar ' ter ly , issued four ...
... vēr tis ' ing , making a business | news ' pā per , a printed sheet giving ăn ' nu al , issued once a year ; occur- nō ' tiçe , an article in the regular news column . eŎl ' ŭmn , a perpendicular division of quar ' ter ly , issued four ...
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à ble ançe ANTONYMS NOTE āte Bachelor of Laws căn capital carriage çen çent cial cious cloth Consult your dictionary denarius děs DICTATION EXERCISE Consult dictionary for meaning disease electric ençe flowers following words fôr Homophonous words,-what instrument kind laçe LESSON măn Mass 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 spelling SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS těl těn tial tion tism tive trăns 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 101 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
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 119 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Page 134 - Dan. Danish ; Daniel. DC District of Columbia.— (It. Da Capo) Again, or From the beginning. DCL Doctor of Civil (or Canon) Law. dd Days after date. DD (L.
Page 102 - The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it...
Page 10 - How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh Which vernal Zephyrs breathe in Evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.