MECHANICS
Spelling
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The list below includes 202 of the words that people most often misspell. The Keables Guide includes it for two reasons: to spare you the trouble of consulting a dictionary, and to allow students with spelling problems to review frequently misspelled words. If the word your teacher marked is not on the list below, look it up.
Here is a suggestion to improve your spelling. You already know how to spell most of the words below, but you probably do not know the spelling of all of them. Read the list, copy the words of which you are uncertain, make your own personal checklist, and make flash cards to drill yourself on the spelling.
absence
accidentally
academic
accommodate
acknowledgment
acquire
across
address
aging
aggressive
all right
always
amateur
analysis
analyze
apology
arctic
argument
athlete
athletics
attach
attendance
basically
beginning
believe
benefited
Britain
bureaucracy
business
calendar
candidate
cannot
cemetery
changeable
changing
commitment
committed
conceive
condescend
conscience
conscientious
conscious
consistent
coolly
curiosity
decision
definitely
descendant
describe
description
despair
desperate
devastate
develop
dilemma
disappear
disappoint
disastrous
doesn’t
each other
ecstasy
eighth
eligible
embarrass
eminent
entrance
environment
exaggerate
exercise
existence
explanation
familiar
fascinate
fiend
fluorescent
foreign
foresee
forty
fourth
friend
frustrated
fulfill
gauge
genius
government
grammar
guerrilla
harass
hindrance
humorous
hypocrisy
idiosyncrasy
immediately
incidentally
indispensable
infinite
ingenious
intelligence
interest
irrelevant
irresistible
jealousy
judgment
laboratory
laid
license
lightning
loneliness
magnificent
maintenance
maneuver
marriage
mathematics
medieval
memento
millennium
minuscule
mischievous
modern
narrator
neighbor
necessary
niece
no one
non-existent
noticeable
obstinate
occasion
occurred
occurrence
omission
opposite
original
parallel
pastime
perceive
perseverance
persuade
phenomena (plural)
phenomenon (singular)
pigeon
possess
possession
precede
prejudice
privilege
probably
proceed
professor
publicly
pursue
questionnaire
receive
recommend
reference
referred
regard
relief
relevant
religion
reminiscence
repetition
restaurant
rhythm
roommate
sacrifice
sacrilegious
schedule
secretary
seize
self-conscious
separate
sergeant
several
significant
similar
simile
soliloquy
sophomore
subtly
succeed
success
surprise
temperature
thorough
threshold
tomorrow
tragedy
transferred
truly
undoubtedly
unnecessarily
until
usage
vacuum
vengeance
villain
warrant
weird
whether
withhold
writing