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Our Word for Wednesday theme for 2023 is tricky spelling words. This year, after sharing the definition and etymology of each week’s word, we will end every blog post with some tips and tricks to help you spell it.
Last month we shared tips for spelling immediately, ceiling, decide, and disappoint. Our first tricky spelling word for May is embarrass.
If you embarrass someone it means you make them feel self-conscious, uncomfortable, or ashamed. If you feel embarrassed it means you experience self-consciousness, awkwardness or shame.
Here is embarrass used in some example sentences:
She embarrassed her brother by telling ever...
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Our Word for Wednesday theme for 2023 is tricky spelling words. This year, after sharing the definition and etymology of each week’s word, we will end every blog post with some tips and tricks to help you spell it.
Over April, we've looked at the words immediately, ceiling, and decide. Our final word of the month is disappoint.
If something disappoints you, it means it fails to meet your hopes or expectations for it.
Here is disappoint used in some example sentences:
Don’t disappoint your proud papa!
I was disappointed when it rained on my birthday.
The team’s result was disappointing.
The word...
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Our Word for Wednesday theme for 2023 is tricky spelling words. This year, after sharing the definition and etymology of each week’s word, we will end every blog post with some tips and tricks to help you spell it.
So far this month we've looked at the words immediately and ceiling. Our third word for April is decide.
If you decide to do something, it means you choose to do it over another option.
Here is decide used in some example sentences:
We decided to go for a walk.
When will you decide which university to go to?
The teacher decided to let us go to lunch early.
Decide dates to the late-fourteenth century ...
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