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How to spell terminal

Terminal is spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-L.

What it means: A station where bus or train trips begin or end.

In a sentence: The bus will stop at the terminal. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: terminal (adjective, e.g. terminal station), terminate, termination, determine, exterminate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Terminal comes from the Latin word "terminus," meaning "end" or "boundary." That same root appears in the name of New York’s famous Grand Central Terminal, which is literally the end point of many train lines.

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