Hard Words
List #: 38189
Keywords/tags: Spelling Bee, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, Middle school, High school, Grades 7-10
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Created: 10/31/2015
Modified: 10/31/2015
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Unit 1 (299 words)
abandonment, abasement, abdicate, ability, abode, abrupt, absent, academic, acceptably, accomplice, accursed, accusal, achievement, acquire, actor, adage, addition, adit, adjective, admiral, adoptee, adulation, advanced, advantage, adversary, affixed, afflict, against, agelong, agenda, allergy, alpine, amber, amiable, amiss, ammonia, amnesia, anagram, anchored, angular, apex, assimilate, associate, autopsy, avenge, bafflement, ballad, barbershop, barely, bargain, bashful, bathtub, beard, bedside, beggar, belabor, beloved, benefit, bicker, bimester, biscuit, bittersweet, bivouac, bizarre, blabber, blackboard, blare, bleachers, blotch, blotter, bludgeon, boardwalk, boned, bonnet, boulder, bowling, boycott, brainwash, bravery, breach, brevity, brigand, brittle, broadcaster, bronze, browbeat, bruise, bubble, buffalo, buffet, bugle, bulldozer, bullpen, bungalow, burglar, burnisher, byway, cabbage, cabdriver, cabinet, cablegram, cadence, cajole, cakewalk, calliope, camper, campfire, cancer, candor, canoe, capable, captivity, capture, cardboard, carhop, carping, cartwheel, cascade, cashew, cashier, casualty, catcall, catchword, caterer, causable, causative, caveman, ceaselessly, cement, ceramics, changer, chapel, charcoal, chewy, choppy, cider, clang, cloakroom, clockwork, clogging, clothespin, codger, coffeepot, collie, colony, commute, concave, concealment, concert, condemn, conductor, confess, confident, confine, consent, construct, consumer, contract, copious, cordial, correct, cowardly, crackle, crooked, croup, cubby, dabbing, dabble, daft, dangerous, dank, dawdle, daydream, dazzlingly, deadhead, deal, dearth, debase, deceitful, deception, decision, deckhand, decontrol, decorate, defeat, definite, degrade, delaying, delicious, delude, depressed, design, devise, dew, dialect, diamond, diction, dictum, dingy, disinfect, divvy, doeskin, dolphin, doodling, doorjamb, dopester, dormancy, downcast, druggist, drunkard, dryness, duly, eagle, earthworm, echo, ecologist, education, effect, ego, elder, elephant, elf, else, emblem, emotional, employed, emptiness, endurance, entire, entomb, equation, equity, escort, essence, eternity, evadable, evergreen, experiment, expression, extract, eyebrow, fabled, facedown, facial, factual, faculty, faint, faithful, falling, falsity, farsighted, fatally, ferment, fickle, filament, firearm, fitful, flail, foaming, foldout, formally, formidable, fortieth, fortress, forum, fossil, foully, foundry, framer, frantic, frazzle, fruition, gaffer, gainer, galley, gamble, garlic, garner, girder, glorious, glossy, glue, gnarl, goalie, godsend, goldbrick, goodly, gorilla, grackle, grainy, greed, griddle, grief, groaning, groggy, grouch, groundless, growl, gruel
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Unit 2 (299 words)
haircut, handbill, hapless, hardback, hardware, heath, heatstroke, heavyweight, heirloom, helicopter, henna, historian, historic, hitchhike, hockey, holeproof, hollow, hollowly, homebound, hopscotch, hotmelt, hummocky, hungry, husky, icequake, idealist, ignition, impassive, inaccurate, inactive, inanimate, inaudible, incredulous, individual, inexcusable, inflate, initiate, inject, innermost, innkeeper, inquest, insanity, inseam, insincere, instinct, intruder, irregular, jaguar, jargon, jaywalk, jeans, jellyfish, jester, jetbead, jigsaw, jogger, joggle, joiner, joining, jostlement, journal, judgeship, judicial, jugular, kappa, keyboard, kidney, kidskin, killcrop, kindergarten, kindhearted, kipper, kisses, kiteflying, knell, knickers, knock, knothole, knuckle, ladder, lament, landlord, larva, laughter, layback, leafcup, least, ledger, lee, leftover, legalize, legible, legion, legit, lethal, letterhead, level, liable, lifeguard, limbless, lingual, literate, lodging, lotion, lousy, lunge, luxury, mace, madcap, magical, magma, magnolia, maidservant, mailable, maintain, majority, malady, manger, mankind, manual, maroon, mawkish, mealy, meanness, meatball, meld, melody, menial, mercury, message, messenger, methodical, microfilm, milkman, minefield, minstrel, moist, molecule, mountain, mournful, mumps, mystify, narcotic, native, nausea, nearsighted, necklace, neckwear, nettle, neutral, nibbling, nightshade, nomadic, nominee, nonmetal, nonsense, nylon, oarlock, oblong, occasional, occupation, oceanfront, oceanic, offbeat, ogle, olden, opening, operation, oration, ordered, origin, oriole, otherwise, outlet, ovenware, oxen, oxygen, pacific, padding, padlock, papacy, parallel, parallelogram, parsley, passageway, pasteboard, pastor, patchy, patio, patrolman, patronize, pattern, pawned, paycheck, payroll, pebbled, peculiar, peppery, perform, perish, perishable, pestle, pickle, piker, pillar, pineapple, pinhead, pinkeye, pitchfork, pittance, placeholder, platinum, playgoer, plod, ploy, plugboard, plywood, poise, politely, political, poll, ponytail, poolroom, powerhouse, precious, priest, princely, probation, propound, prudence, pudginess, punctual, pushover, putrid, quantitate, quarry, quaver, railbed, rainspout, rancid, ransack, raspberry, rattlesnake, rebuff, recipe, recurrent, redouble, reduce, remedy, reminder, remove, rental, reportedly, reprieve, resolute, retainer, richness, riffraff, rigorous, ringleader, riverbank, roadster, roadworthy, robust, rookery, rosette, rotunda, rubbish, rupture, rustler, sackcloth, saga, saintly, sampler, sandbar, saxophone, scold, scoot, scorched, scorpion, scour, scrawny, screech, scrumptious, sculpture, segment, semicircle, senile, sensitive, shaky, shameful, shank, sheepish, shepherd, shivering, shredder, shuddering, sightseer, skeleton
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Unit 3 (120 words)
sketchy, skirmish, slapstick, smoggy, snappish, sneakiness, snippet, soulful, sourdough, soybean, spacious, spareribs, splintered, splurge, sponsor, sprocket, squaw, squeeze, squirt, stability, stable, stadium, staggered, starch, statue, stealthy, stickler, stoneware, straddle, stupendous, subculture, succeed, suction, suitable, supervise, sweatshop, system, tabletop, tacker, taco, tailor, talent, tantalize, tapestry, tardily, taxation, teeter, television, tempest, tenement, tentacle, tentative, terminal, terminate, termite, tern, terrain, thatch, thermostat, thicket, thigh, thirsty, thorny, tidal, tigerish, tobacco, toehold, torment, trainable, tranquil, transform, trapeze, trellis, trinket, trumpet, tumbleweed, twitter, ultraviolet, unique, unloveliness, uppity, vagrancy, vaguely, valve, vampire, vaporize, variable, vaunt, veer, veil, verbose, version, vintage, vitally, vulture, wager, waggish, waiter, wake, walnut, warble, wart, wastebasket, watermark, watery, wavelet, wealth, weather, wedge, weird, westward, whimsical, whiplash, wingspan, wrangler, wreckage, yam, yardage, yucca, zodiac