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How to spell shock

What it means: A sudden feeling of fear or surprise.

In a sentence: The loud noise gave me a shock! ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shok or schock.

Same family: shocks, shocking, shocked, shockwave, aftershock. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Shock” comes from the Old French word “choc,” meaning a violent blow or collision. In military history, it was often used to describe the sudden, powerful impact when two groups of soldiers first met in close combat.

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