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Silent Letter Words

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WORDS WITH SILENT LETTERS

BY JAKE ROTHSTEIN
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DEBRIS

The scattered remains of something broken, destroyed, or discarded; rubble or wreckage

Debris comes from the French noun débris which means debris. This comes from the Old French word debrisier, or to break pieces. The prefix de strengthens the verb, and brisier is to break.
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EXHILARATE

To cause someone to real very happy.

Exhilarate comes from the Latin word exhilalāre which means to make cheerful. This word comes from the Latin word hilarus, or cheerful.

FORESIGHT

The ability to imagine what is likely to happen in the future.

It is made up of the prefix fore, which is before. Fore comes from old English.
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JOSTLE

To bump roughly against another person or thing

The suffix le means repetitive or forceful action. It comes from English.
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UNSIGHTLY

Unpleasant to look at.

The word derives from the prefix up, which means not, the word sight, the ability to see, and the suffix ly which makes adjectives from nouns. It late Middle English.
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