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How to spell revolutionary

hear itrev·o·lu·tion·ar·y/,rɛvə'luʃə,nɛri/adjectiveAcademic

What it means: Introducing significant change or innovation.

In a sentence: The new robot was so amazing, it was called revolutionary!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as revoltionary or revelutionary.

Same family: revolt, revolution, revolutionize, revolutionist, revolutionary (adjective). If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Revolutionary comes from the Latin root "volvere," meaning "to roll or turn." It originally described a turning or revolving, and later came to describe people who want to completely "turn" or change a political or social system.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Prefixes keep every letter

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