13 to 14 Year Olds Weekly Spellings
Set 1
Adding the suffix ‘ent’ meaning causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action.
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silent
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different
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confident
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violent
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absent
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obedient
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magnificent
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intelligent
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evident
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convenient
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frequent
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transparent
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decent
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recent
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detergent
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sufficient
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efficient
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independent
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patient
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excellent
Lots of you are working your way through your personalised lists and have not reached this point yet.
This page is prepared, ready and waiting until you are!
Most of these words you will have met along the way in previous years. You have learnt them - now it is a case of retrieving them.
There are only three tricky words!
sufficient, efficient and patient
e + ff + ici + ent
meaning achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort
Efficient is not as efficient as it likes to think, as it has a long 'eeee' at the front, double "ff" and two i's.
suff + ici + ent
meaning having enough
Sufficient and and efficient follow the same pattern of "icient" if you can spell efficient you can spell sufficient.
patient
meaning able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.
'i' can wait in the middle of 'pat' and 'ent'