SUCCESS CAMP 2015
ACTIVITY: SPELLING
DRILL
A. DESCRIPTION:
An exciting quiz competition testing the student’s spelling skill and ability.
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B. OBJECTIVES:
To stimulate students’ interest and help them develop their knowledge of English vocabulary
To test students’ skill and ability at spellings words and in turn help improve their spelling
skill
To help students become exposed to a variety of words, their origins and so increase their
vocabulary
To help students improve their command of English words in particular and expressions in
general.
To help build and enhance students’ confidence at participating at similar competitions
C. PERSONNELS
a. Moderator/ Quiz Master – Must be one who has a good command of the English
Language, excellent pronunciation skill and having the ability and charisma to
stimulate the interest of the contestants as well as the entire audience. Preferably, a
graduate of English Language or related field.
b. Time Keeper who must be very apt and accurate in keeping time.
D. PROCEDURES:
a. Participants to be selected to represent the districts – at least 2 who must be either
in SS1 or SS2
b. Each contestant is to wear a number tag which must be bold
c. Participants are to be arranged to sit on the two sides of the Quiz Master facing the
audience
d. Participants are to introduce themselves one after the other amidst loud applause
from the audience
e. The Quiz master is to read out the rules of the contest to the participants to the
audience. These include:, (i) time allowed for each question,(ii) audience involvement:
loud clapping and cheering of contestants especially for correctly spelt words; penalty
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for interference such as whispering of answers which may lead to the contestant
losing that chance or being disqualified, etc.
The Quiz Master select question randomly without bias for participants from the pool
of questions available.
The Quiz Master is to clearly read out the question – that is pronouncing the word
which the participant is to spell. He is to repeat this for not more than 3 times before
the participant is to begin to spell the word. PLEASE NOTE that the participant is free
to ask the quiz master to give the origin of the word, state if it is a noun, verb or
adjective and may be, use the word in a sentence.
The participant has 10 seconds to spell the word correctly. The time starts reading
after the quiz master has pronounced the word for the 3rd time.
Each correctly spelt word is to be loudly applauded by the audience.
Words not correctly spelt should be thrown to the audience to spell. There should be
a prize for each member of the audience who correctly spells a word.
But whereas no one is able to spell the word correctly, the quiz master is to spell out
the words and demand for applauds from the audience.
The competition shall be in two stages. The first stage is the preliminary stage in which
all participants will be given a chance to continue whether he gets a word correctly or
not. The second stage is the ‘knock-out’ stage. Any contestant who fails a word here
leaves the stage.
The competition is to continue until the 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions are determined.
Where there is a tie between two or more contestants, more questions are to be
asked to untie the knot.
Worthy prizes are to be given to the best three contestants.
Prize-given ceremony should be made to be colorful. Where possible, the State
Overseer, Regional Overseer, Group Pastor, as the case may be, with other pastors
should be involved in the award giving ceremony.
E. THE QUIZ
WORDS ARE SELECTED THE LAGOS STATE SPELLING BEE DICTIONARY (SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CATEGORY)
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WORD
ACCOMMODATE
ORIGIN
LATIN
2
ALIBI
LATIN
3
ARTICULATE
LATIN
4
ANNIVERSARY
LATIN
5
ASTHMA
GREEK
6
AUXILIARY
LATIN
7
8
9
BENIGN
BEIGE
BOUQUET
FRENCH/LATIN
FRENCH
FRENCH
10
BUTTRESS
FRENCH
11
BARRICADE
FRENCH
12
BALLISTIC
GREEK
13
14
BAMBOOZLE
BARBECUE
UNKNOWN
SPAININSH
15
16
BELEAGUER
BUTCHER
DUTCH
FRENCH
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BILLBOARD
MEANING/USAGE
Having enough space/room for people or
things
Something that proves that someone was
not where a crime happened and so could
not have done it.
Formal; to express your ideas or feelings
in words.
A date on which something special or an
important event happened in a previous
year.
A medical condition of the chest that
makes breathing difficult.
A worker who provides additional help for
another group of workers
Kind and gentle
A pale brown colour
An arrangement of flowers, especially one
that you give to someone.
A brick or stone structure built to support
a wall; or to support a system, an idea or
an argument.
A temporary wall or fence across a road,
door that prevents people from going
through; or to prevent someone or
something from getting in
The scientific study of the movement of
objects that are thrown or fired through
the air such as bullet from gun short.
To deceive, truck or confuse someone
A meal or party during which food is
cooked on a metal frame over a fire and
eaten outdoors.
Experiencing a lot of problems or criticism.
To kill animals and prepare to be used a
meal
A large board used for advertising
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BAGGAGE
FRENCH
19
BUFFET
FRENCH
20
BUREAU
FRENCH
21
22
CANNIBAL
CARTOON
SPANISH
ITALIA/SPANISH
23
COMMITTEE
24
25
CONFECTIONERY
DISCIPLINE
LATIN
LATIN
26
DISSEMINATE
LATIN
27
DISENFRANCHISE
28
29
EMBARRASSMENT
EXAGGERATE
FRENCH
LATIN
30
EUNUCH
GREEK
31
EFFICIENCY
LATIN
32
EXCLAMATION
LATIN
34
DILEMMA
GREEK
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FEASIBLE
FRENCH
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FORLORN
FORMULA
OLD ENGLISH
LATIN
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FUNNY
The cases, bags, boxes etc carried by
someone who is travelling
A meal at a party or other events in which
people serve themselves at a table and
then move away to eat.
An office or organization that collects or
provides information
A person who eats human flesh
A short film that is made by
photographing a series of drawings
A group of people chosen to do a
particular job, etc
Sweets, chocolates, etc
To punish someone in order to correct and
keep him under obedience
To spread information or idea to many
people
To take someone’s rights, especially the
right to vote, and make him not to feel
part of a society
The feeling when you are embarrassed.
To make something better, larger, worse
etc than it really is.
A man whose testicles have been
removed, especially someone who
guarded a king’s wives in some Eastern
countries in the past.
The quality of working productively with
no waste of money or effort.
A sound, word, or short sentence that one
says suddenly and loudly because one is
surprised, angry or excited.
A situation in which it is very difficult to
decide what to do because all choices
seem equally good or equally bad.
A plan, idea or method that is possible and
is likely to work
Seeming lonely and happy
A method or set of principles that you use
to solve a problem or to make sure that
something is successful
Making you laugh or amused
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HAPHAZARD
40
HIPPOPOTAMUS
GREEK
41
LEUKEMIA
GREEK
42
LACKADAISICAL
GREEK
43
LIBRARY
LATIN
44
LIEUTENANT
FRENCH
45
MANOEUVRE
FRENCH
46
MATRIACH
LATIN
47
MEGABYTE
GREEK
48
METROPOLIS
GREEK
49
MEDITERRANEAN
LATIN
50
51
52
53
NAUTICAL
OBLIQUE
OLYMPIC
OMBUDSMAN
GREEK
LATIN
GREEK
SWEEDISH
54
OMELETTE
FRENCH
55
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PASSIONATE
PLAGUE
LATIN
GREEK
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PLEBISCITE
FRENCH/LATIN
Happening or done in a way that is not
planned or organized. Lacking order.
A large grey African animal with a big head
and mouth that lives near water
Type of cancer of the blood that causes
weakness and sometimes death.
Not showing enough interest in
something or putting enough effort into it.
A room or building containing books that
can be borrowed or looked at
A fairly low rank in the armed forces, or an
officer of this rank.
A skill or careful movement that you
make, for example in order to avoid
something or go through a narrow space
A woman, especially an older woman,
who controls a family or a social group
A unit for measuring computer
information, equal to 1024 kilobyte and
used less exactly to mean one million
hertz.
A very large city that is the most important
city in a country or area.
The sea that is surrounded by the
countries of Southern Europe, North
Africa and Middle East.
Relating to ships, boats or sailing.
Not expressed in a direct way
Relating to Olympic games
A government official appointed to
receive and report grievances against the
government
Eggs mixed together and cooked in hot
fat, sometimes with other foods added
Showing strong emotion for something
A disease that causes death and spreads
quickly to a large number of people
A system by which everyone in a country
or area votes on an important decision
that affects the whole country or area.
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PLOUGH
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PRECISE
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PREREQUISITE
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PRIVILEGE
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PSYCHOLOGY
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RHYTHM
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RUMOUR
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SATISFACTORY
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POSSESSION
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SUPERSEDE
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STATIONARY
SYMPOSIUM
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TURBAN
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WEIGH
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ADDICT
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ACQUAINT
ALLITERATION
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AMBULANCE
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ANALYSE
ENGLISH
A piece of farm equipment used to turn
over the earth so that seeds can be
planted
FRENCH
Precise information, details etc are exact,
clear and correct.
LATIN
Something that is necessary before
something else can be done
LATIN
A special advantage that is given only to
one person or group of people
GREEK
The study of mind and how it influences
people’s behaviour
FRENCH/LATIN
A regular repeated pattern of sound or
movement
LATIN
Information or a story that is passed from
one person to another and which may be
true or not.
FRENCH/LATIN
Something that seems good enough for
you or a particular purpose or situation
LATIN
Something you own or you have obtained
from somewhere
LATIN
For something to be better than another
because it is more modern or more
effective
LATIN
Standing still instead of moving
GREEK
Formal meetings in which people who
know a lot about a particular subject have
a discussion about it.
TURKISH/FRENCH A long piece of cloth that you wind round
your head, worn by men in parts of North
Africa and Southern Asia and sometimes
by women as a fashion
ENGLISH
Find out how heavy someone or
something is.
LATIN
Someone who is unable to stop taking
drugs
LATIN
Deliberately find out about something
LATIN
The use of several word together that
begin with the same sound or letter to
make a special effect especially in poetry
FRENCH
A special vehicle that is used to take
people who are ill or injured to hospital.
GREEK
To examine or think about something in
order to understand it.
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APPETITE
LATIN
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ARROGANT
LATIN
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ASSASSINATION
ASSIMILATE
ARABIC
LATIN
81
82
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BEHAVIOUR
BLOUSE
BROADCAST
FRENCH
ENGLISH
84
CATERPILLAR
FRENCH
85
CHAOTIC
GREEK
86
CORRIDOR
ITALIAN
87
COUPLE
LATIN
88
CREST
LATIN
89
90
DEVISE
EXECUTIVE
FRENCH
LATIN
91
EXORCISM
GREEK
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FAMINE
LATIN
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FASCINATE
LATIN
A desire for food or liking for a particular
activity
Behaving in an unpleasant or rude way
because you think you are more
important than other people
The act of murdering an important person
To completely understand and begin to
use new ideas or information
The thing that a person or animal does
The shirt for women
A programme on the radio or television/
send out radio or television programmes
A small creature like a worm with many
legs that eats leaves and that develops
into butterfly or other insect; or a metal
belt made of short connected pieces that
are fastened over a wheel of a heavy
vehicle to help it to move over soft
ground.
A situation in which everything is
happening in a confused way.
A long narrow passage on a train or
between rooms in a building, with doors
leading off it.
Two things or people of the same kind or
two people who are married
The top or highest point of something
such as hill or a wave/ or a group of
feathers that stick up on the top of a bird’s
head.
A plan or invent / way of doing things
A manager in an organization or company
who helps to make important decisions/
or the part of a government that makes
sure decisions and laws work well
A process during which someone tries to
make an evil spirit leave a place or person
A situation in which a large number of
people have little or no food for a long
time and many people die
When one is attracted to something or
somebody and think they are extremely
interesting.
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FATIGUE
LATIN
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FISSION
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FLIPPANT
FROM FLIP
97
FOREIGN
FRENCH
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GALLOP
GAZETTE
FRENCH
VENETIA
100
GECKO
MALAY
Very great tiredness or a weakness in a
metal or wood, caused when it is bent or
stretched many times, which is likely to
make it break.
The process of spitting an atom to
produce a large amount of energy or an
explosion or the process of dividing a cell
into two or more parts.
Not being serious about something that
other people think you should be serious
about
From or relating to a country that is not
your own or involving or dealing with
other countries
To move very quickly
An official newspaper, especially one from
the government giving important list of
people who have been employed by them
A type of small lizard.
F. FURTHER NOTES:
a. The Quiz Master is only to give the origin/meaning/usage of a word when so requested
by a contestant.
b. Where a word has a British and American spelling ONLY THE BRITISH spelling should be
accepted.
c. Where a word contain the same letters following each other (e.g, “ss” or “pp”) they must
be spelt separately. Do not allow the use of “double s” or “double p”. This is to make for
clarity and avoid confusion.
d. The words listed above may be substituted with other words as may deem necessary.
e. A copy of a standard dictionary should be at hand should any argument of confusion arise
on a word.
f. Encourage the participants and audience to write down each correctly spelt word. This in
a way will help build up their word power.
Thank you.