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How to spell active

hear itac·tive/'æktɪv/adjectiveSilent and tricky

What it means: Full of energy and moving around a lot.

In a sentence: The puppy is very active and loves to play.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as activ or actve.

Same family: action, actively, activity, activate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Active comes from Latin 'activus', meaning 'busy' or 'full of activity', from the verb 'agere' meaning 'to do, to drive'. The same root gives us words like 'act', 'agent', and 'agenda'.

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