The Halving Principle

See paragraphs 158 to 164.

Par. 159. - Fit, aft, east, sheet, hushed, caught, act, heaped, packet, merit, tippet, turret, eject," enact, adopt, hesitate, fatal, esteem, active, depict, fortune, petrify, plucked, enriched, vanished.

Ebbed, deed, goad, bead, joyed, avoid, bathed, vivid, tugged, rigid, unaided, jogged, caged, wisdom, turbid, candid, scathed, judicious, abduct, provide, dragged, avidity, argued, elbowed.

Par. 161.-Let, art, mat, knit, omit, pilot, helmet, alert, twilight, bullet, hermit, walnut, remote, unhurt, quilt, ignite, metal, oratory, native, antic, eminent, cutlet, ejaculate, return, climate.

Led, aimed, oiled, aired, yard, hand, award, pared, behold, field, veiled, timid, attired, assailed, index, scold, soundly, framed, endeavor, twirled, shared, pallid, indigo, astound.

Write in full: Weighed, winged, unweighed, hanged, whanged, imbued, honey-tongued.

Par. 162. - Hooked, hurt, halt, hemmed, herd, humid, hardness.

Par. 163. - Spot, sift, ceased, satiate, scout, smite, sonnet, sold, swiftly, biscuit, phosphate, dissipate, lacerate, insatiate, except, besieged, peasant, desert, desolate, result, resound, absurd, officered, jostled, insert.

Shouts, coats, wickets, pockets, edicts, garrets, lofts, agitates, benefits, carpets, units, pellets, magnets, buds, intents, snorts, penants, lads, viands, enfolds, buzzards, spouts, summits, resorts, chestnuts.

Steeped, stuffed, stitched, stalked, stubbed, stilt, start, steamed, midst.

Par. 164. - Plate, prate, split, flute, clot, fright, effort, trait, threat, crate, penult, replete, patriot, autocrat, flatly, freightage, sprout, straight, secrete, floatage, recruit, couplet, flotilla.

Blade, broad, dread, grade, upbraid, inbred, breadth, gladly, idled, hammered, agreed, bubbled, leveled, wavered, Arnold, Madrid, nibbled, juggled, shoveled, bannered, figured, summered, degrade, injured, sobered.

Quote, twit, quit, acquit, adequate, requite, squat, banquet, languid, adequately, requital, antiquate, equitable, equitably, aquatical, adequateness.

The following words are written with halved double consonants intervocalized : Beard, build, bird, averred, chart, gold, courtly, sport, cathartic, partner.

Dictation Exercise

Abashed, accetify, actively, acute, adoptive, afoot, approached, apricot, apt, aqueduct, ascertain, attract, austerity, baked, barefoot, befitting, bethought, capital, captive, category, catnip, clipped, cogitate, cottage, cutlery, delicate, dipped, earthed, elective, enwrapped, epileptic, epitomize, equipped, eradicate, etiquette, fatally, fate, fetlock, flushed, freshet, gnashed, hitched, hoodwinked, hopped, hospital, iced, imitator, infatuate, initiatory, latched, lavished, looped, mimicked, mocked, muriate, nourished, novitiate, octillion, October, officiate, operative, optical, ostrich, palpitate, pirate, pitfall, Potomac, pottery, rectify, shut, sketched, suppurate, surfeit, taught, thwacked, tomahawked, touched, tripped, unyoked, upshot, whacked, wished.

Adjudicated, aided, alleged, arranged, assuaged, avenged, avowed, bedewed, bequeathed, bodied, breathed, brigade, damaged, deluged, died, dodged, eased, emerged, endued, enraged, enslaved, envied, evading, fatigued, fervid, forbid, frigid, gibed, graduate, jawed, judicial, livid, managed, morbid, mouthed, moved, nerved, obduracy, obeyed, obliged, overjoyed, pervade, pillaged, plagued, ranged, remedied, reviewed, robbed, shadowed, sheaved, shelved, shrived, smoothed, sordid, subdued, surveyed, tagged, turbidly, twinged, unargued, vowed, wagged, wedged, wreathed.

Abhorrent, acclimate, aconite, advent, affiliate, antedate, Antioch, antiquary, antler, appellate, aromatic, arterial, artful, artillery, assault, assimilate, asthmatic, belittle, bergamot, Charlotte, cocoanut, collate, daylight, dilatory, efficient, effluent, elate, emulate, entity, gamut, gently, granite, humilate, idiomatic, infinite, intense, intimate, involute, Israelite, lateness, lighthouse, linnet, litany, lottery, lunatic, maturely, metaphor, meteoric, mignonette, motley, mutable, mute, nativity, naught, nautical, nettle, nightshade, notably, notebook, oblate, oratorio, oriental, ornately, parentage, permeate, polite, pollute, pullet, remotely, spoliate, support, ultimate, vacant, vintage.

Afield, alarmed, allude, allured, annealed, apalled, assumed, availed, becalmed, bewailed, blamed, blurred, cajoled, cashiered, charred, colonade, crawled, devoured, drawled, eastward, endless, erred, evident, fathomed, fattened, felled, froward, gnarled, hardened, hold, Indian, indict, indicate, intend, laudably, medallion, meddler, mediator, medical, medicate, medley, mermaid, minuend, mode, modicum, modify, ordeal, ordinary, overheard, owned, pinioned, poured, presumed, quailed, redeem, repealed, skimmed, spared, steward, teamed, termed, thrilled, thumbed, tolled, toughened, towered, unappalled, unequalled, upheld, valid, vineyard, whelmed, whirled, yelled.

Hacked, haltingly, heard, heart, heartless, hilt, hired, Holt, horde, hugged, hurd, hurtful, hurtfully, hurtless, unheard, exhumed.

Absent, absolute, accent, assassinate, bisect, buzzard, castled, cemetery, chastened, deceived, decimate, desired, dispite, disavowed, disobeyed, disowned, dissect, dissolute, disunite, disused, excelled, excitate, execute, exult, fascinate, fastened, gaslight, gasped, hastened, insect, lessened, lizard, macerate, misdeed, misguide, obsolete, occiput, pleasant, poisoned, psaltery, puzzled, rasped, reasoned, received, recent, resolute, resumed, risked, rosebud, sapped, scent, seared, sect, seethed, seized, skate, skittish, sleet, sobbed, softly, somewhat, soured, spite, spittle, summed, switched, testate, tusked, unsent, unsold, unsound, worsted (n), wainscot.

Abides, annotates, aspects, associates, ballots, baronets, baskets, bids, buckets, colonades, comets, corrupts, cuts, dedicates, deputes, descends, despots, dictates, directs, disunites, emeralds, enumerates, epaulets, epithets, evades, exacts, hearts, hordes, hornets, housemaids, Huguenots, inducts, inoculates, inserts, intends, latchets, leads, mates, modes, notes, officiates, omelets, oscillates, parapets, pats, pheasants, plummets, populates, ports, prophets, pulpits, refutes, restates, retards, rivulets, scouts, shots, sonnets, swords, tanyards, tenants, thefts, tilts, tracts, vegetates.

Amidst, staked, stabbed, staved, stalled, stared, starred, stacked, stepped, stemmed, steeled, steered, stilled, stirred, stopped, stooped, stocked, stored, styled.

Affright, chaplet, cleet, clout, Crete, crout, Detroit, entreat, flat, flatten, flattish, fleet, fleeting, fleetly, flight, flit, flitting, float, floating, flout, fluting, fraught, freight, fret, fruit, fruitage, hypocrite, plat, plate, plight, plot, Pratt, secret, split, sprat, sprite, street, strut, throat, treat, trite, trot, trout.

Abjured, abroad, addled, angled, augured, babbled, beggared, beveled, bled, bleed, Bradley, braid, braved, breed, Bridewell, broad, broadly, coddled, cudgeled, cupboard, Donald, doubled, dried, enabled, enamored, fabled, favored, feathered, fiddled, gathered, glued, gobbled, haggard, haggled, half-blood, half-breed, harbored, hobbled, home-bred, honored, hovered, Hubbard, humbled, humored, hundred, hybrid, ill-bred, imbrued, joggled, labored, libeled, low-bred, measured, niggard, peddled, powdered, quivered, rumored, severed, shivered, sidled, simmered, sobered, swaggered, tethered, unbraid, undried, unhonored, waddled, wagered, warbled, well-bred, wheedled, wiggled, wriggled.

Bald, bard, beardless, begird, board, bold, cart, cartage, cortege, court, courthouse, gird, guard, guardless, ignored, inert, overboard, rebuild, regard, short.