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Words beginning with th...
Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business is a tourist.

Words beginning with th...

Though he thought it through, it still failed. Check your spelling of KS3 words beginning at th.

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Henry David Thoreau.

Thoreau's description of creating mental pathways refers to the way in which habits are developed. These can be physical habits, such as those which create a path on the ground, and mental habits, such as those which shape a person's view of the world.

1 .
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The act of travelling or sightseeing
toreism
tourism
taurism
toureism
If you can spell "tourism", you'll easily manage "tourist"
2 .
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From one side of an opening to the other
thruogh
threwe
through
threw
The -ough spelling here makes an "ew" sound, which can be rather surprising when learning to read! It's odd that "though" and "through" are pronounced so differently
3 .
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The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume
timebre
tiembre
timbrer
timbre
"Timbre" is a French word, which accounts for the -re ending
4 .
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The commercial buying and selling of goods and services
traede
traid
traide
trade
So many ways to make an "a" sound: a-e, ae, ai, ay. Can you think of any more?
5 .
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On the day after the present day
tomorrow
tomorow
tommorrow
tommorow
Remember: one m and double r. It can be helpful to split the word into parts: to-morrow
6 .
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'The horse t------- its rider'
threwe
through
threw
thrugh
Be careful not to get "threw" mixed up with its homonym "through"!
7 .
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Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business
tourist
taurist
torerist
toureist
Take "tour" and add the suffix -ist
8 .
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An apparatus used to measure temperature
thermometre
thermmometer
thermometer
thermmometre
The words "thermometer" and "thermal" are related
9 .
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A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
tournement
tourenament
tournament
taurnament
The a of the unstressed second syllable might be the trickiest letter to remember here
10 .
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A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language
thesaurus
theasaurus
thaesaurus
theesaurus
A "thesaurus" sounds as if it might be a type of dinosaur! Did you know that the word comes from the Greek for "treasury"?
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

Author:  Sheri Smith

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