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How to spell approximates

Approximates is spelled A-P-P-R-O-X-I-M-A-T-E-S.

hear itap·prox·i·mates/ə'prɑksə,meɪts/verbHidden vowels

What it means: Comes close to an exact amount, value, or standard.

In a sentence: His clay sculpture approximates the shape of a real turtle nicely.

The part people get wrong

Double p near the start and pronounce the long a in -mates.

Same family: approximate, approximately, approximated, approximating. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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