Grade 5 · List 5 of 5 · 39 words
Long academic words
Break it into parts and check each. A free 5th grade spelling list: hear each word, print a practice sheet, or take the test.
The words
- adventure
- ancient
- journey
- discover
- separate
- necessary
- temperature
- knowledge
- mysterious
- celebrate
- excitement
- experiment
- extraordinary
- opportunity
- environment
- festival
- tomorrow
- experience
- interesting
- community
- conversation
- mathematics
- independent
- appreciate
- communicate
- vocabulary
- particular
- scientific
- laboratory
- encyclopedia
- responsibility
- organization
- possibility
- approximately
- punctuation
- calculator
Tricky words to learn by heart
These come up alongside this pattern but don't follow it.
- shoulder
- soldier
- vegetable
In a sentence
- adventure: Our dragon friend and I went on a great adventure today.
- ancient: We found an ancient map hidden inside the old castle wall.
- journey: We began a long journey through the magic forest.
- discover: Can you discover the hidden door in the garden?
- separate: Please separate the red gems from the blue ones.
- necessary: It is necessary to bring a map on the quest.
Mistakes to watch for
For grown-ups helping at home: these are the kinds of slips this pattern tends to bring.
| Word | Often written as |
|---|---|
| adventure | adventur, advencher |
| ancient | anshent, ancent |
| journey | jurney, journy |
| discover | dicover, discuver |
| separate | seperate, separat |
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Long academic words
Grade 5 · Break it into parts and check each
Read each word, then write it on the line.
- adventure
- ancient
- journey
- discover
- separate
- necessary
- temperature
- knowledge
- mysterious
- celebrate
- excitement
- experiment
- extraordinary
- opportunity
- environment
- festival
- tomorrow
- experience
- interesting
- community
- conversation
- mathematics
- independent
- appreciate
- communicate
- vocabulary
- particular
- scientific
- laboratory
- encyclopedia
- responsibility
- organization
- possibility
- approximately
- punctuation
- calculator
- shoulder
- soldier
- vegetable
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