Gregg Speed Studies/Speed Study 18

by John Robert Gregg

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SPEED STUDY XVIII
EIGHTEENTH LESSON

"Act," "Ect," "Ict, " "Uct," "Sist," " Ist," etc.—

Key: exact, enact, attract, impact, contact, defect, infect, eject, reject, project, aqueduct, deduct, product, addict, predict, edict, select, depict, evict, subsist, desist, insist, resist, consist, persist, theorist, jurist, egotist, dramatist, Baptist, artist, linguist, pianist, disaster, cessation, incessant, cistern, intercessor.

"Mal," "Nal," "Ral."—

Key: dismal, informal, canal, arsenal, cardinal, marginal, nominal, ordinal, criminal, admiral, plural, coral, floral, temporal, corporal, federal, spiral.

"Ld."—

Key: bold, herald, yield, gold, unfold, sold, uphold, shield, smolder, bewi'der, elder, builder.

"Est," "Estation."—

Key: best, rest, invest, test, divest, west, biggest, modest, digest, honest, tempest, manifest, manifestation, forest, forestation, detest, detestation, protest, protestation, attest, attestation.

"Keep On."—In writing from dictation, it should be an invariable rule never to allow one's self to pause when a difficult or doubtful word or phrase is encountered. It should be understood that whenever the rate of dictation has been settled, the reader shall mercilessly proceed at that rate, and shall be no more indulgent of the writer's occasional slowness than an actual speaker would be. Nothing can more surely lead to a "sluggish mental process" or more surely delay the acquisition of speed, than for the writer to indulge the habit of pausing and pondering upon every uncommon word, or what is still worse, suspending the dictation in order that his doubts as to an outline may be settled by reference to a dictionary or a textbook. "Keep on" should be the inflexible rule for writer and reader.—David Wolfe Brown.

BUSINESS LETTERS

We-have-your-letter, lithographed, calendars, distribution, in-any-way, credit-memorandum, half-the, deduct, products, community, very-cordially-yours, Automatic, Furniture-Company, voucher, Atlantic, Coffee-Company, Raisin, Valley, Irrigation-Company, holdings, assessment.

Hold, medium, we-feel, statistics, enable, unrented, conference, we-had, I-have-decided, drayman, drayage, charged, exceptions, in-the, acknowledge-receipt-of-your-letter, Lockworth, selling, second, I-had, anticipated, averse, obligating.

Indebtedness, pursued, we-did, I-think-that, bonds, in-need, drainage, owners, to-provide, Walter, McAdoo, Saxon, from-any, obligations, commissions, under-his, of-rebate, agreement, is-received, refunding, they-have-been, reserve, you-should, subagent, critical.

Carload, yard, plant, systematically, analyzed, quote, vital, considerations, based, economic, efficient, operation, machinery, deliberate, idleness, means, decreased, discover, to-avoid, repetition, proved, installations, under-separate-cover, catalog, entitled, executive, photographs, to-give-you.

NEW IDEAS

Madison C. Peters

Idea, startling, danger, overmastering, minority, Fulton, launched, Hudson, asylum, enemy, Morse, telegraph, girdle, omnipresent, Charles, Good-year, struggled, India , pawned, wife's, jewelry, starving, criticized, behold, vulcanized, over-five-hundred, Franklin, clouds, sneeringly.