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How to spell qualify
Qualify is spelled Q-U-A-L-I-F-Y.
What it means: To meet the necessary standards.
In a sentence: To play in the big race, you must qualify and show you can run fast.
Same family: qualification, qualified, unqualified, qualifying, quality. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Qualify” comes from Medieval Latin *qualificare*, meaning “to make of a certain quality or kind.” Over time, English speakers extended the meaning from changing the quality of something to meeting the right conditions for something, like a job or a competition.
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