Spelling Matters

Spelling and reading skills are closely related and help develop overall literacy. Knowing how to spell is important when you are sending correspondence to someone, especially a potential employer. Not knowing how to spell creates confusion and a lack of clarity.

How do you spell the words defined below?

(adj.) Emotionally hardened; Unfeeling, insensitive, unsympathetic

1. calluous
2. callous
3. calous
4. callaous
5. callus

(v.) To renounce or reject; To avoid or shun

1. abjur
2. adjure
3. abjour
4. objure
5. abjure

How do you spell the word defined below?

(adj.) At rest; Still

1. quiecent
2. quiscent
3. queiscent
4. quiescient
5. quiescent

Lack of respect or seriousness when dealing with something serious; Frivolity

1. lavity
2. levaty
3. levitate
4. levity
5. levety

v.) To ruin the surface or appearance of; To vandalize

1. diface
2. defase
3. defeace
4. deface
5. disface

(adj.) Eating with greediness or in very large quantities; Ravenous

1. voracious
2. varacious
3. vorcaious
4. voratious
5. vocarious