Here are some of the most commonly used, most commonly misspelled, words. You have studied every one of them. Are you sure that you can and do spell every one correctly?
| piece | raise | busy | write | |||
| beginning | wrote | color | writing | |||
| though | enough | guess | here | |||
| coming | truly | says | hear | |||
| early | sugar | believe | done | |||
| instead | straight | knew | women | |||
| easy | could | February | always | |||
| through | much | Wednesday | where | |||
| every | minute | lose | been | |||
| half | Tuesday | loose | friend | |||
| none | wear | would | business | |||
| often | answer | once | money | |||
| cough | trouble | does | their | |||
| ache | among | heard | there | |||
| break | said | know | sure |
Fourth Year Vocabulary
| absent | amuse | attention | bedroom | |||
| ache | anger | attic | beech | |||
| acorn | angry | aunt | before | |||
| across | annual | author | beforehand | |||
| action | answered | automobile | beggar | |||
| admire | any | awful | begin | |||
| admiring | anyway | bald | beginning | |||
| advice | apron | balloon | begun | |||
| afterward | arithmetic | banana | believe | |||
| against | arranged | base | belong | |||
| agent | arrive | baseball | below | |||
| album | arrow | basket | beneath | |||
| alone | ashamed | basin | between | |||
| always | ashes | bathroom | Bible | |||
| America | assist | beautiful | bicycle | |||
| American | attack | because | billow | |||
| amid | attempt | become | birch | |||
| birth | breathes | cabin | chance | |||
| biscuit | breeze | called | chapter | |||
| blister | brief | calm | charge | |||
| blossom | brittle | camel | cheap | |||
| blotter | broad | camp | cheerful | |||
| blouse | bruise | candle | cherry | |||
| bluebird | bucket | cannon | chestnuts | |||
| boards | bud | canoe | chicken | |||
| bobolink | bugle | capital | china | |||
| body | build | captain | chocolate | |||
| boil | building | cargo | choice | |||
| bookcase | built | carpenter | choose | |||
| borrow | bulb | carpet | church | |||
| bosom | bush | carriage | circle | |||
| bower | bushel | carrot | cities | |||
| break | busily | carve | city | |||
| breakfast | business | castle | close | |||
| breast | butcher | cellar | closet | |||
| breath | cabbage | chamber | cloth | |||
| clothes | corner | curve | disbelieve | |||
| club | correct | damp | distance | |||
| coal | cottage | dandelion | distant | |||
| cocoa | cotton | danger | distress | |||
| collar | cough | daughter | distressed | |||
| colony | courage | dawn | divide | |||
| color | cousin | death | dividend | |||
| column | cove | debt | divisor | |||
| comb | coward | decided | doctor | |||
| comma | creature | delay | does | |||
| command | cricket | delight | dome | |||
| common | cripple | depart | done | |||
| company | crowd | depend | dough | |||
| complete | cruel | depot | doughnut | |||
| conduct | crumb | desire | drawing | |||
| conductor | cupboard | dictate | driven | |||
| content | cur | difference | drove | |||
| continent | currants | different | eagle | |||
| copy | curtain | dinner | early | |||
| easy | expect | firm | garage | |||
| eaves | explain | fish | garden | |||
| edge | fairies | flannel | giant | |||
| elm | fairy | flower | glance | |||
| else | faith | flutter | globe | |||
| empty | faithful | foot | gone | |||
| enemy | false | forenoon | grandma | |||
| engine | falsehood | forest | grandpa | |||
| enjoy | family | forgiveness | grape | |||
| enough | fancy | fork | grateful | |||
| equal | farther | fort | greatness | |||
| equally | fault | fortune | grief | |||
| erect | favor | Franklin | grocer | |||
| error | fence | freedom | grove | |||
| evil | fender | front | grumble | |||
| exact | ferry | fudge | grumbling | |||
| example | field | fuel | guess | |||
| excuse | finish | fur | half | |||
| exercise | fir | furnace | halves | |||
| hammock | honor | invite | know | |||
| handsome | honorable | janitor | labor | |||
| harbor | hoop | jelly | ladies | |||
| harvest | hope | jewel | lady | |||
| having | hopeful | jewelry | laid | |||
| hawk | horizon | jolly | lamp | |||
| headache | hotel | journey | language | |||
| health | however | judge | lantern | |||
| heap | humble | judging | laughter | |||
| heard | hunger | juice | lawn | |||
| heaven | hungry | juicy | leap | |||
| held | idle | just | learning | |||
| herself | inch | justice | ledge | |||
| high | inches | kettle | left | |||
| history | indeed | kindle | lemon | |||
| Holland | infant | kitchen | lemonade | |||
| home | instead | knew | level | |||
| honest | invade | knight | liar | |||
| honesty | invitation | knighthood | liberty | |||
| lilac | mid | murder | offer | |||
| linen | mighty | muslin | officer | |||
| liquid | minuend | napkin | often | |||
| listen | minute | narrow | olive | |||
| locate | mirror | native | omit | |||
| loop | moan | nature | once | |||
| loose | model | nearly | onion | |||
| lose | modest | necktie | orchard | |||
| loyal | modesty | neglect | ounce | |||
| loyalty | moonlight | neighbor | oven | |||
| lumber | morning | nephew | overalls | |||
| lying | motion | noble | palace | |||
| machine | motor | none | palm | |||
| manage | mount | northern | pansy | |||
| maple | mountain | notice | pantry | |||
| master | mourn | nurse | parade | |||
| measure | much | obey | paraded | |||
| member | mud | observe | pardon | |||
| merry | muddy | o’clock | parlor | |||
| party | pity | provide | rather | |||
| pasture | pleasant | prune | read | |||
| path | pleasure | public | really | |||
| patient | pledge | pudding | reap | |||
| peacock | plenty | punish | recess | |||
| people | punishment | recite | ||||
| pepper | poem | purple | recover | |||
| perfect | polite | purse | remain | |||
| perhaps | poor | push | remainder | |||
| period | porch | quarrel | remove | |||
| piano | pour | quickly | repeat | |||
| pickle | power | quietly | replied | |||
| picnic | praise | quilt | reply | |||
| piece | prefer | rabbit | report | |||
| pier | prepare | radish | ribbon | |||
| pigeon | present | railroad | rich | |||
| pilgrim | primary | railway | ripple | |||
| pillow | promise | raisins | roam | |||
| pitied | prompt | rapid | robber | |||
| Rome | sentence | slept | spruce | |||
| rope | servant | slope | square | |||
| rough | serve | soda | squash | |||
| said | severe | sofa | squirrel | |||
| salt | shadow | soft | stable | |||
| sandwich | shady | soil | station | |||
| satin | shingle | solid | stir | |||
| sauce | shoes | sorrow | stitch | |||
| saucer | short | sorry | stone | |||
| says | shovel | sort | stoop | |||
| scarlet | shower | soul | storm | |||
| scattered | showery | sparrow | stove | |||
| scholar | silent | spelling | straight | |||
| scope | silver | sphere | stranger | |||
| scour | single | splendid | strength | |||
| search | sinner | spoon | strict | |||
| seashore | sir | sport | succeed | |||
| seems | sledge | sprinkle | success | |||
| seldom | slender | sprout | sugar | |||
| suit | thousand | travel | upper | |||
| sure | ticket | traveler | upright | |||
| surprise | timber | trip | uprooted | |||
| surround | tiny | trolley | used | |||
| swamp | ’tis | trooper | usual | |||
| sweat | title | trouble | vacation | |||
| sweater | together | truly | valley | |||
| swept | toil | truth | valor | |||
| tale-bearer | toilet | tulip | vase | |||
| taught | tomato | tumble | vegetable | |||
| tax | ton | turkey | vessel | |||
| tear | tongue | turnip | village | |||
| tender | tonight | uncle | violet | |||
| terrible | torn | under | visit | |||
| thankful | touch | understand | visitor | |||
| their | tough | union | voice | |||
| thistle | toward | unite | waist | |||
| thorn | towel | united | walnuts | |||
| though | tower | unless | warm | |||
| warn | whisper | without | wound | |||
| wash | whistle | wolf | wreath | |||
| watch | whole | wolves | wrinkle | |||
| wealth | whose | woman | write | |||
| wear | wigwam | women | writing | |||
| wedge | willow | wonder | written | |||
| weigh | window | wonderful | wrote | |||
| weight | winner | wool | yellow | |||
| welcome | wipe | woolen | yourself | |||
| wharf | wisdom | worth | ||||
| whatever | within | would |
VAN REES
PRESS
NEW YORK
Transcriber’s note
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.