SPELLING LIST - Levels 3 - 5

-tion

-ive

-al

homophones

completion

apprehensive

individual

heard/herd

direction

destructive

special

practise/practice

invention

expensive

original

weight/wait

pollution

explosive

usual

father/farther

question

detective

approval

beach/beech

attention

defective

comical

stare/stair

mention

adjective

fictional

one/won

collection

offensive

impractical

threw/through

-ful

-fully

double letters silent letters

hopeful

hopefully

different

ghost

beautiful

beautifully

difficult

ghastly

careful

carefully

essential

numb

wonderful

wonderfully

excellent

design

successful

successfully

suppose

stretch

awful

awfully

opposite

interesting

delightful

delightfully

passenger

knowledge

peaceful

peacefully

beginning

surprise

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c makes s

double and add ed

extremely

audience

grabbed

frequently

century

occurred

gently

excellent

planned

eventually

exciting

stopped

generally

excited

trapped

obviously

necessary

slipped

fortunately

evidence

mapped

prefixes

suffixes

i before e, except after c

disappoint

beautiful

believe

(ee sound)

disappear

happiness

fierce

(ee sound)

important

inevitable

thief

(ee sound)

impossible

carefully

niece

(ee sound)

unhappy

children

achieve

(ee sound)

unusual

treatment

ceiling

(ee sound)

almost

magician

receipt

(ee sound)

altogether

politician

receive

(ee sound)

although

dictionary

science

(no ee sound)

supermarket

likeable

weird

(an exception!)

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Mixed Bag 1

escape - escaping

family - families

foreign

excide - exciting

city - cities

famous

make - making

body - bodies

conquered

include - including

lady - ladies

discuss

move - moving

baby - babies

ourselves

raise - raising

story - stories

disgusting

wrestle - wrestling

pony - ponies

dozens

joke - joking

injury - injuries

significant

take - taking

fairy - fairies

correctly

hope - hoping

trophy - trophies

attempt

adjective

comparative

superlative

y preceded by vowel

big

bigger

biggest

donkey - donkeys

noisy

noisier

noisiest

monkey - monkeys

easy

easier

easiest

valley - valleys

nasty

nastier

nastier

key - keys

pretty

prettier

prettiest

essay - essays

large

larger

largest

osprey - ospreys

wide

wider

widest

railway - railways

near

nearer

nearest

alley - alleys

tall

taller

tallest

motorway - motorways