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Words beginning with st...
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Words beginning with st...

Stare at the little mouse on the stair - with clogs on. Check your spelling skills of KS3 words beginning at st.

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." - Vance Havner.

Do you enjoy collecting old, even archaic, words? Do you use them? How many times have you used the word "venture" in your life? "Venture" is both a noun and a verb. A person might venture all of her possessions in a great gamble, meaning that there is some risk the gamble will not succeed.

1 .
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Resembling a dream
sureeal
surreal
surreel
sureal
Add the prefix sur- to "real"
2 .
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Something not expected
surprise
surpreise
suprise
surpriese
Are you ever surprised by that first r in "surprise"?
3 .
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To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc
survey
surevey
surviey
surveiy
What sound does the ey digraph make here?
4 .
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Without fail; certainly, undoubtedly; with confidence
surelly
surrely
surrelly
surely
Add the suffix -ly to the word "sure"
5 .
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Ability to withstand an applied stress
streancth
streangth
strength
strenkth
The words "strength" and "length" are spelled similarly
6 .
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The achievement of one's aim or goal
success
sucess
succes
sucese
Remember "success" has a double c and double s
7 .
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Lower in rank or importance
suboardinate
suboirdinate
subourdinate
subordinate
It can be helpful to break this word down into syllables: sub-ord-i-nate
8 .
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A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object
symbol
symnbol
symble
simbol
The o of the unstressed final syllable can be tricky to remember
9 .
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An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated
subteraction
subbtraction
subttraction
subtraction
If you can spell "subtract", you'll have no problem with "subtraction"
10 .
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One or more letters or sounds added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning
sufefix
suffaix
suffix
suffex
Why does "prefix" have only one f, but "suffix" has two?
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

Author:  Sheri Smith

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