September 15,

2014

Vocabulary
Week 2
Commonly Misspelled Werds

Ms. Melfi . Observation 1 . Fall 2014

1)
Which, P. what one?

Witch, N. a person who practices

magic; a sorceress.

Which witch would you rather know?

2)

week, N. a period of seven days;

typically understood as beginning with
Sunday and ending with Saturday.
weak, Adj. not strong; easy to
break; lacking in force, opinion, or
argument.

After a week of not going to the gym, I

was feeling very weak.

3)
Threw, V. past tense of throw

Through, preposition in at one

end, or side, and out the other.

I threw the ball to my dog and it went

through the yard.

4)
peace, N. a state of mutual
harmony between people or groups

piece, N. a portion of a whole

Sharing a piece of pie will help keep

the peace.

5)
pair, N. two identical, or similar,
objects; two individuals who are similar;
two objects that are joined together (a
pair of scissors).
pear, N.- edible fruit; the tree itself.
pare, V. to cut off the outer layer or
coating.

A pair of friends went to pick a pear

from the pear tree. They worked
together to pare the pear.

6) Pore V. to read or study with steady

attention.
N. a tiny opening in the skin or a
leaf.
Pour V. to send a liquid or substance
falling from one container to another or over
an object.
N.- the act of pouring; a heavy fall of rain.
Poor Adj. having little or no money;
deficient or lacking in something; deficient in
quality

Pore

I pored over the book I was reading because it

was a mystery and I couldnt wait to see what
happened next!

The pores in the leaf absorbed all of the rain

water.

Pour
I poured the sand into the orange bucket at
the beach.

It was pouring rain during the scary

thunderstorm last night.

Poor
The soil was very poor. I planted flowers,
but nothing grew in the garden.

Twenty
20
I ate twenty chips with my
sandwhich.

924 = Nine hundred twenty

four.

Thirty
30
My sister is thirty years old.
4,037= Four thousand, thirtyseven.

Forty

40
I have forty coffee mugs.
40,800,445 = Forty million,
eight hundred thousand, four
hundred forty-five.

Fifty
50
I bought fifty plates for the party.
351 = three hundred fifty-one

Sixty
60
My aunt is sixty years old.
6,868= six thousand, eight
hundred sixty-eight.

Seventy

70
The pitcher had seventy strike
outs in the game.
679 = six hundred seventynine

Eighty
80
Its a beautiful day today! Its
eighty degrees and sunny.

7,984= seven thousand, nine

hundred eighty-four

Ninety
90
I ate ninety M&Ms for dessert
last night.

90,593 = ninety thousand, five

hundred ninety-three.

Hundred
100
Its my goal to read one hundred
books this year.
174,126= one hundred seventy-four
thousand, one hundred twenty-six.

Thousand
1,000
I drove a thousand miles to visit my
family over the holiday weekend.
4,629= four thousand, six hundred
twenty-nine.

Million
1,000,000
The jackpot for the lottery this
week is one million dollars.

54,900,002 = fifty-four million,

nine hundred thousand, two.