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How to spell invasion

Invasion is spelled I-N-V-A-S-I-O-N.

What it means: An act of entering a place forcefully.

In a sentence: The ants planned an invasion to get the picnic food. ▶

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Same family: invaded, invading, invader, invasive, invasionary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Invasion” comes from Latin *invadere*, meaning “to go into” or “to attack,” from *in-* (“into”) and *vadere* (“to go”). The same root appears in words like “evade” (to get away) and “pervade” (to spread through).

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