Business Speller and VocabularyAmerican Book Company, 1913 - 205 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
a'tion abbr acid action adjectives alternating current ance apparatus ben e body Capable cate cause chemical decomposition cloth color colorless consisting consonant cotton derived Designating device diphthong disease dress ěks electric current ence especially fabric follow Lesson force fruit inclosed Inflammation instrument kär kind leather lence liquid machine mat'ic ment metallic element motion nate ness officer ol'o gy ornamental ornamental band pär par'a Pertaining piece plant point type produced pûr resembling respelled REVIEW shoe side silent e silk silver-white skin skroo soft sound spelling STUDY RULE substance sûr surface syllables te'ri těr thin tion tism tive trans tûr ture twilled usually vessel vowel vûr wheel wool words ending worn woven zoölogy
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Página 151 - Ind. Iowa kans. Ky. La. Maine Md. Mass. Mich. Minn. Miss. Mo. Mont. Nebr. Nev. NH NJ N.
Página ix - Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, begin, beginning; run, running; put, putting; shop, shopping; prefer, preferred.
Página 110 - Thus, the grantor may deliver the deed to a third person, to be delivered by him to the grantee on...
Página 114 - An official commissioned to reside in a foreign country to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, to protect its seamen, etc.
Página 111 - A defeasance is an instrument which defeats the force or operation of some other deed or estate ; and that which in the same deed is called a condition, in another deed is a defeasance.
Página 120 - ... the science that investigates the conditions and laws affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, or the material means of satisfying human desires; political economy.
Página 113 - are things belonging to another thing as principal and which pass as incident to the principal thing. The term as used in conveyances passes nothing but the land and such things as belong thereto, and are part of the realty.
Página 40 - immigration" means the act of immigrating, and to immigrate is to come into a country of which one is not a native, and in which one has not acquired a residence or domicile.
Página 110 - English law larceny is defined to be the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same and to make them the property of the taker.
Página 119 - Chemistry. The science that treats of the composition of substances and of the transformations which they undergo. There are two main groups. (a) Organic chemistry, which treats of the hydrocarbons and their derivatives, and (b) Inorganic chemistry treats of all other compounds, and of the elements.