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How to spell association

What it means: A group of people organized for a common purpose.

In a sentence: The association planted trees to help the animals. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double s, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as asociation or assosiation.

Same family: associates, associated, associating, associative. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Association” comes from Latin roots: ad- (“to, toward”) plus socius (“companion, ally”), originally meaning ‘to join with companions.’ Over time, it came to mean both the act of linking things in the mind and an organized group of people with a common purpose.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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