Harder Words
List #: 38190
Keywords/tags: Spelling Bee, 9th, 10th, High school, Grades 9-10
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Created: 10/31/2015
Modified: 10/31/2015
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Unit 1 (299 words)
abrasion, abruption, abscondence, absentee, absolutize, abstraction, academia, accessible, accrual, accuracy, acne, acrobat, acumen, adamantine, additory, adjacency, adoptable, affirmative, agonic, aisle, alba, alimony, aliveness, allergic, altimetry, aluminous, ambivalent, ambulation, amity, analogy, anise, anonymous, antarctic, anteroom, anticipatory, antiseptic, antisocially, aphid, arbor, ardency, armistice, asceticism, aspen, aspersion, asthmatic, asunder, auctioneer, auditor, authentic, avenge, bagel, balminess, banality, bandicoot, bantamweight, barnacle, barnstorm, battlesome, bauble, beguile, belaud, bethel, bewail, bile, bioengineering, blackthorn, blarney, boglet, bonanza, borderline, botcher, breezeway, brigadier, bristly, budgetary, cajolery, camouflaged, cannery, canopy, capitulate, captain, carboy, carnation, carnival, cask, cassis, cathole, cauliflower, cellarage, cellist, century, cessation, chandelier, charitarian, chasm, chasten, chauffeur, chemicalize, chic, chieftain, chimpanzee, chitchat, chocolate, churn, chutney, Cinderella, circumspect, citation, citify, citrus, clamor, claret, clarion, cleavage, climatology, cloddiness, cloistered, coalesce, coaxial, cockatoo, coloristic, commencement, competently, comprehensive, conclamant, confirmable, congeal, conglobe, conjury, conscientious, construe, contentious, contour, controlled, cortisone, countenance, cratered, crisscross, culprit, dabblingly, daffodil, dairymaid, damask, dampproof, dative, dauntless, deactivate, deburr, decadal, decorum, deficiency, dehumidify, delusion, demerit, demobilize, denial, denominator, descendible, designate, desultorily, detonator, developer, diapered, dictator, diminutive, discept, disclaimant, disinter, dissuade, divergent, dizzyingly, dockhand, dodderer, dogdom, doldrum, dollarwise, dolphin, duplicator, eaglet, ecclesiastic, editorial, eellike, efficiency, eland, elapse, elocution, elopement, elude, emancipation, embarrass, eminently, emperor, empirical, emulate, emulator, enamelware, enclave, encompass, encroachment, endive, endow, engagingly, enhance, ennui, enshroud, enzyme, escalator, especially, estrange, euphoric, evensong, exaggerate, exalted, expectorant, explicit, exploit, fainthearted, fallacy, fallow, feckless, felinity, ferocious, fervently, fibrated, fifer, finespun, fissionable, flaccid, flamethrower, flapdoodle, fleeciness, fluke, flurry, foible, foreordain, forgetfulness, fourplex, fresnel, fugitive, fundamentally, furl, gabbro, gabelle, gagman, gallantry, galoot, gastric, gauzy, gentility, genuflect, germicide, ghetto, gladiator, glider, glimmer, global, globule, goatee, goatherd, goggles, goldenfleece, goneness, gourd, governess, grapnel, greenbrier, guiltsick, gullibility, gumption, guttural, gymnasium, gyroscope, haberdasher, habitat, habitual, handiwork, hangar, harmonica, haulage, heartthrob, heathen, hedgehop, heinous, helmeted, hesitancy, hoeing, hollyhock, homespun, horrid, howel, humdinger, hypertension, hysteria, idem, ignominious, illfare, illicit, immaterial, impenetrable
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Unit 2 (294 words)
imponderable, impreg, impressionable, inclement, incompletable, inconclusible, inconsiderate, indescribable, industrious, inescapable, inexpensiveness, inlier, insufflator, interfluve, interpolate, intraneous, intricate, investiture, iota, irrigation, issuance, jackroller, jerkwater, jittery, jonquil, judiciary, juggernaut, kelpfish, keno, kernel, knightling, lair, lampblack, larynx, laudable, lectionary, leisurable, leopardess, lexical, liaison, lieu, limby, limerick, liturgy, lobotomy, locale, locust, logistics, lottery, lovelorn, lozenge, luminaire, lusterware, mackinaw, mademoiselle, madrigal, magician, magmatic, magnetician, magnificat, mainprise, majorette, malar, mallard, mammoth, mania, masculinity, maternity, mathematician, mattress, mayhem, medallionist, mediocre, meemies, merfolk, microbial, militancy, mimeograph, mitigation, mixology, molecules, mollify, monadnock, monition, monogram, monopoly, monstrous, moppet, moratorium, mordacious, mosaicist, municipally, mythomania, nainsook, neology, neon, nephology, nepotism, ness, neuter, newscaster, nonuple, noxiously, numerical, numerology, nutmeg, obelisk, objectivity, obtrusive, occlusion, octagon, ohm, oily, onyx, oolong, opossum, optimistic, opulent, otitis, ottoman, ovary, overt, owlets, oximeter, oyez, ozonic, pallbearer, palmetto, parable, paradise, paralogize, parasoled, parboil, parenthesize, parfait, parishioner, parliament, parlous, parodist, parrotlet, partiality, pasteurize, peameal, pert, pertinently, petition, petrify, pharmacy, pharos, phasic, phenomenon, phobia, phonation, phonily, phosphoric, pica, pictograph, pictorialism, piffling, pillory, pirouette, plasticize, plauditory, plummet, polemic, politely, politico, polychromatic, polyvinyl, pompous, porpoise, porringer, portfolio, posit, positron, prairie, prate, preeminent, preferential, preliminary, priggish, privateer, procathedral, proctor, producible, profiteer, promenade, promissory, propaganda, prophetic, proprietor, psalmist, psychedelic, ptarmigan, punster, quadrillion, quantimeter, queued, quilt, quitclaim, quizzically, rackettail, racon, radarscope, raiment, rainspout, randomize, rapacious, rascality, rasher, rattail, ravine, reactor, realty, rebuke, recipe, recital, recitative, recurrent, redoubtable, reflector, regnant, rehearsal, repertory, repudiate, requisite, rescindable, residential, resurgence, rhubarb, roleo, rollicking, rotatable, routinize, rowdyism, ruffianly, sacristy, safeguard, sagacious, salaam, saltire, sarcasm, sardine, satiric, saturator, saturnism, sauna, savagism, scabbard, scabby, scaffold, scalded, scalper, scattered, scorekeeper, scrounge, seabound, secrecy, sedentary, seductive, selectivity, senatorial, sensibility, sensible, sensual, separatory, septic, sequence, sequester, seriatim, serpentile, serried, servile, sexton, shenanigans, sial, sierra, sieving, sigmatism, simnel, simulcast, sire, skeet, skiff, skirret, skoal, skullcap, slalom, slithery, smarmy, sobeit, sociable, solder, soleprint
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Unit 3 (119 words)
solidify, sonable, soothsaying, sourdough, southpaw, spandex, spangle, spastic, species, spidery, spikiness, spindly, spinet, spoofery, sprightly, stakemaster, stannary, statistician, steeved, stegosaur, stethoscope, stevedore, stigmata, stratagem, strawbreadth, strepitous, streusel, strident, subbasement, subjectivity, submerge, subsidiary, succor, suffusive, suggestible, sukiyaki, sumpter, superfluous, supposition, surrey, syllable, symmetry, syncopation, tableau, tabulable, taciturn, tamale, tanbark, technician, tedious, telepathist, tetanus, textuary, theosophize, theretofore, thievish, thoroughfare, throstle, tilery, timbery, topiary, trajectory, transducer, transistor, transpierce, treble, trenchant, trepidation, trihedral, trillion, trinketry, troika, troth, trousseau, trove, tumor, tungsten, turnstile, tycoon, tyrannosaurus, ulcerate, ulterior, ultimacy, undulate, univocal, unmitigated, unprincipled, unveiled, urban, urn, vacillant, venerable, vesicant, vespacide, vigilante, vinegar, virtuoso, vivacity, walkathon, warlock, wheeze, whelk, whetstone, whisk, whist, windlass, winterfeed, wizardry, wizen, womp, xenophobia, yogism, yule, yuletide, zanily, zebra, zigzagged, zoogenic, zucchini