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'Accommodate' is correctly spelled with two 'c's and two 'm's. A helpful mnemonic is 'two rooms for two cats' (cc) and 'two rooms for two mice' (mm) - remembering both letters are doubled.
B
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'Belive' is misspelled - the correct spelling is 'Believe' with an 'e' before the 'v'. This follows the common pattern 'ieve' in words like believe, relieve, and perceive.
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'Memento' is correctly spelled. It comes from Latin (meaning 'remember' and used as a reminder object). It follows the standard 'ment' spelling pattern like 'mental' or 'comment'.
B
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'Develope' is misspelled. The correct spelling is 'Develop' without the final 'e'. When adding '-op' to 'devel', you don't keep the 'e' from the base form (unlike words like 'create' becoming 'creation').
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'Maintenance' is correctly spelled. The 'main' prefix is clear, and 'tenance' is the standard suffix. Though some might expect 'maintainance' based on 'maintain', the actual spelling drops the 'i' from 'maintain'.
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'Receive' is correctly spelled with 'ei' not 'ie'. This follows the 'i before e except after c' rule - after 'c', use 'ei' (receive, deceive, ceiling). The 'c' signals the vowel swap.
B
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'Decieve' is misspelled. The correct spelling is 'Deceive' with 'ei' not 'ie'. This follows the 'i before e except after c' rule - after the letter 'c', we use 'ei' instead of 'ie'.
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'Weird' is correctly spelled. This is actually one of the notable exceptions to the 'i before e' rule - here 'e' comes before 'i' even though there's no 'c'. Other exceptions include 'seize', 'neither', and 'their'.
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'Occassion' is misspelled - it should have only one 's'. The correct spelling is 'Occasion' with double 'c' but single 's'. A common mistake is doubling both letters, but only 'c' is doubled.