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How to spell assessment

Assessment is spelled A-S-S-E-S-S-M-E-N-T.

hear itas·sess·ment/ə'sɛsmənt/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A test or evaluation of someone's knowledge.

In a sentence: The teacher gave us an assessment to see how much we learned about dinosaurs.

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Same family: assessing, assessed, reassessment, evaluation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Assessment” comes from the Latin word *assidere*, meaning “to sit beside,” because tax officials would literally sit beside people to judge how much they owed. Over time, the word shifted from judging taxes to judging performance, skills, or situations.

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