[79. SPELLING LIST]
The English language comprises about 450,000 words. Of these a student uses about 4000 (although he may understand more than twice that number when he encounters them in sentences). Of these, in turn, not more than four or five hundred are frequently misspelled. The following list includes nearly all of the words which give serious trouble. Certain American colleges using this list require of freshmen an accuracy of ninety per cent.
- absurd
- academy
- accept
- accidentally
- accommodate
- accumulate
- accustom
- acquainted
- acquitted
- across
- addressed
- adviser
- aeroplane
- affects
- aggravate
- alley
- allotted
- all right
- ally
- already
- altar
- alter
- altogether
- alumnus
- always
- amateur
- among
- analogous
- analysis
- angel
- angle
- annual
- anxiety
- apparatus
- appearance
- appropriate
- arctic
- argument
- arising
- arithmetic
- arrange
- arrival
- ascend
- asks
- athletic
- audience
- auxiliary
- awkward
- balance
- barbarous
- baring
- barring
- baseball
- based
- bearing
- becoming
- before
- beggar
- begging
- beginning
- believing
- benefited
- biscuit
- boundaries
- brilliant
- Britain
- Britannica
- buoyant
- bureau
- business
- busy
- calendar
- candidate
- can't
- cemetery
- certain
- changeable
- changing
- characteristic
- chauffeur
- choose
- chose
- chosen
- clothes
- coarse
- column
- coming
- commission
- committee
- comparative
- compel
- compelled
- competent
- concede
- conceivable
- conferred
- conquer
- conqueror
- conscience
- conscientious
- considered
- continuous
- control
- controlled
- coöperate
- country
- course
- courteous
- courtesy
- cruelty
- cylinder
- dealt
- debater
- deceitful
- decide
- decision
- deferred
- definite
- descend
- describe
- description
- derived
- despair
- desperate
- destroy
- device
- devise
- dictionary
- difference
- digging
- dilemma
- dining room
- dinning
- disappear
- disappoint
- disavowal
- discipline
- disease
- dissatisfied
- dissipate
- distinction
- distribute
- divide
- divine
- doctor
- don't
- dormitories
- drudgery
- dying
- ecstasy
- effects
- eighth
- eliminate
- embarrass
- eminent
- encouraging
- enemy
- equipped
- especially
- etc.
- everybody
- exaggerate
- exceed
- excellent
- except
- exceptional
- exhaust
- exhilarate
- existence
- expense
- experience
- explanation
- familiar
- fascinate
- February
- fiery
- fifth
- finally
- financier
- forfeit
- formally
- formerly
- forth
- forty
- fourth
- frantically
- fraternity
- freshman (adj.)
- friend
- fulfil
- furniture
- gallant
- gambling
- generally
- goddess
- government
- governor
- grammar
- grandeur
- grievous
- guard
- guess
- guidance
- harass
- haul
- having
- height
- hesitancy
- holy
- hoping
- huge
- humorous
- hurriedly
- hundredths
- hygienic