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Advicenoun--an opinion or guidance offered
Adviseverb--to offer counsel or advice
Affectverb--to influence
Effectalmost always a noun—impact —occasionally a verb—cause
Allotto distribute or apportion
A lotmeaning a whole bunch
All rightnot alright
Alwaysnot allways
Amongnot amoung
Analyzenot analyse (which is the British spelling)
Anywaynevertheless
Any wayone or some + path or route
Capitolthe building in which a legislature assembles
Capitala city that is a seat of government; wealth in money or property; first or foremost
Catalogor catalogue--not catelog(ue)
Categorynot catagory
Chooseto make a selection
Chosepast tense of choose
Chosenadjective (a _____people); past participle of the verb choose (I have _____to participate.)
Company'ssingular possessive (The _____work force is strong.)
Companiesplural of company
Companies'plural possessive (The ______CEOs met with the President.)
Convenienceanything that adds to one’s comfort or saves work
Councilan assembly of persons (The City _______meets on Tuesdays.)
Counselthe act of giving advice or the advice itself
Definitelycertainly; positively
Desirableworth having; pleasing
Developto show or work out by degrees; to make bigger
Elicitto bring out or draw forth
Illicitagainst the law or not permitted
Explanationsomething that explains; interpretation; meaning
Immigrateto enter and settle permanently in a foreign country (Pilgrims ____ed to Plymouth.)
Emigrateto leave one country or region to settle in another (They _____d from England.)
Imminentabout to occur
Eminentprominent
Irrespectivewithout respect or regard for
Regardlesswithout regard
It’scontraction of it is
Itspossessive — belonging to it
Likelihoodchances of happening
Loosenot fastened or restrained (My button is _____.)
Loseto suffer loss
Filingmaintaining records in a business according to rules or organization
Loyaltynoun — faithfulness
Moralenoun—state of spirits of a person or group
Moraladjective—ethical
Of coursecertainly
Orientverb meaning to make familiar or become acquainted with a situation
Perceiveto understand; to become aware of through one’s senses
receiveto get something
deceiveto trick
Personalpertaining to a particular person
Personnelthe folks who work someplace
Principalfirst in rank or authority; can be the boss at a school; money
Principlea basic truth or assumption
Proceedto go forward
Precedeto come before in time or order
Questionnairea written or printed set of questions used in gathering information
Rapportsympathetic relationship; harmony
Recurto happen again
Recurringcontinuing to happen
Respondentthe one who responds
apparentobvious
consistentoccurring the same way
dependentdepending on another
Revert toto go back to
Salesnoun--volume of that which was sold
Sellsverb--to exchange for money
Separateremember
Sightsomething that is seen
Sitea place or location
Citeto quote as an authority or example
Sophomorethe second year in high school or college (Latin for “wise fool”)
Supposed toexpected to
accustomed tohaving the expectation that something will happen
used todid once
Theirpossessive
Thereadverb--meaning at or in that place (The car is over _____.)
They'recontraction of they are
Thenat that time
Thanconjunction--introduces the second element of a comparison of inequality
Toin the direction of
Twothe number following one and preceding three
Tooadverb--meaning also
Undoubtedlywithout a doubt
Uniqueone of a kind
Whetherconjunction—if it is so that
Weatherthe state of the atmosphere
You'recontraction of you are
Yourpossessive pronoun—belonging to you
Yoretime long past


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Clovis, CA

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