In addition, there are four letters which should be given as dictation exercises. These letters contain a large number of words which are very likely to be misspelled, as shown by their frequency of use in correspondence and the percentage of error of eighth grade pupils who attempt to spell them.
Remember that the lessons are arranged by weeks rather than by days. The work for each week consists of one advance column and one review column. The review column in each case is the fourth column preceding the advance work. That is, it is made up of a week's work one month old. For example, column 5 contains 20 new words to be learned in one week. During the same week, column 1 should be reviewed. The lesson for the first week consists of column 1, which is the advance lesson, and of column R 1, which is the review.
| R-1 | R-2 | R-3
|
| Chautauqua | planning | separate |
| schedule | remittance | advisable |
| guaranteed | probably | awfully |
| rheumatism | sincerely | disease |
| privilege | arrangement | sense |
| efficiency | considerably | familiar |
| inst. | capacity | merely |
| judgment | corporation | presence |
| recommend | usually | receiving |
| thoroughly | choir | similar |
| correspondence | inquiry | variety |
| courteous | renewal | crochet |
| semester | alfalfa | imagine |
| practically | basis | organization |
| opportunity | benefit | successful |
| literature | catalogue | sympathy |
| absolutely | excellent | appreciated |
| receipt | necessary | assigned |
| definite | quantity | assistant |
| guarantee | response | pleasant |
| VI. 15 | VI. 13 | VI. 12 |
| VII. 12 | VII. 9 | VII. 8 |
| VIII. 9 | VIII. 6 | VIII. 5 |
| R-4 | 1 | 2
|
| relieve | convince | reference |
| surprised | transfer | companies |
| appreciate | independent | discourage |
| assistance | investigate | insurance |
| candidate | wholesale | inclined |
| certificate | democratic | organized |
| distribution | employer | ambition |
| magazine | exception | attractive |
| principal | confident | credited |
| readily | advertised | notified |
| registration | constantly | operated |
| commission | manufacturer | worried |
| equipment | sanitary | automatic |
| exhibit | submitted | accord |
| nervous | liable | frequently |
| practical | evidence | management |
| regularly | concerning | generous |
| succeed | assuring | involved |
| uneasy | positive | misunderstanding |
| duplicate | superior | representation |
| VI. 10 | VI. 7 | VI. 7 |
| VII. 7 | VII. 4 | VII. 4 |
| VIII. 4 | VIII. 2 | VIII. 2 |
| 3 | 4 | 5
|
| invitation | contrary | abstract |
| celebrate | entertaining | employed |
| discontinued | examined | register |
| respectfully | profitable | resident |
| obligation | registered | vision |
| occupied | reservation | favorite |
| application | universal | nephew |
| accordingly | requirement | regardless |
| collecting | deliveries | satisfactory |
| convinced | desiring | serious |
| destination | conference | Hallowe'en |
| agriculture | strawberries | pneumonia |
| fashionable | advancement | appendicitis |
| combination | decrease | ingredients |
| resigned | deserved | phosphorus |
| membership | triumph | telephone |
| supervision | graduating | temperature |
| clause | hustling | possibilities |
| activity | numerous | temptation |
| impossible | raiser | constructed |
| VI. 7 | VI. 7 | VI. 10 |
| VII. 4 | VII. 4 | VII. 7 |
| VIII. 2 | VIII. 2 | VIII. 4 |
| 6 | 7 | 8
|
| Pullman | librarian | superintendent |
| cistern | agricultural | occasion |
| customers | announcement | representative |
| sight-seeing | completely | possibility |
| warrant | ballot | all right |
| acknowledged | coöperative | especially |
| electric | cordial | committee |
| borrowers | inferior | immediately |
| circumstance | preliminary | analysis |
| opposite | disappointed | bulletin |
| edition | physical | mortgage |
| excursion | exceptionally | referred |
| patronage | annually | referring |
| professor | exhausted | convenience |
| restaurant | responsibility | allotment |
| commencement | algebra | installment |
| chaperon | executive | advertising |
| thesis | permanent | administrator |
| possess | soliciting | straightened |
| physician | alumni | epidemic |
| VI. 12 | VI. 12 | VI. 13 |
| VII. 8 | VII. 9 | VII. 10 |
| VIII. 5 | VIII. 6 | VIII. 7 |