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How to spell vacation

hear itva·ca·tion/veɪ'keɪʃən/nounLong vowels

What it means: Time spent away from work for relaxation.

In a sentence: We went to the beach for our summer vacation.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as vication or vacasion.

Same family: vacations, vacationing, vacationer, holiday, break. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Vacation” comes from Latin *vacare*, meaning “to be empty” or “to be free,” and originally referred to a time when work or school duties were ‘empty.’ Over time, it came to mean a period of travel and relaxation away from everyday responsibilities.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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