Spelling Bee C – answers
1 resourceful – did you remember the single ‘l’?
2 undoubtedly – did you write the silent ‘b’?
3 imaginative
4 laughter
5 privileged – the second ‘i‘ catches people out ( to catch people out – to delude, deceive, mislead people)
6 abbreviation
7 difficulty – many people forget to spell this noun with 2 fs!
8 advise – the verb is spelt with an ‘s’, the noun has a ‘c’. You can hear the difference in sound. The ‘s’ in the verb ‘advise’ sounds like a ‘z’.
9 omitting
10 emergency
11 investors – the ‘or‘ ending is not necessarily what you expect, as often in such words the ending is ‘er’ – eg farmer, fisherman, banker; but ‘solicitor‘, ‘vendor‘, ‘translator‘ ‘doctor‘, ‘advisor‘, ‘counsellor‘ or ‘councillor‘ are just some of the professions which follow this pattern.
12 picnic
13 obedient – did you remember the ‘ent’ ending?
14 concentration
15 development
16 courageous
17 boundaries
18 breathe – the verb is spelt with an ‘e’
19 cancelled – did you remember the double l – ‘ll‘? US English uses just one ‘l‘
20 puzzling – did you omit the ‘e’ which is there in the noun and verb ‘puzzle’, but omitted in the present participle?