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Keywords/tags: Spelling Bee, 10th, 11th, 12th, High school, Grades 10-12
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Created: 10/31/2015
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Unit 1 (298 words)
abbacy, abducent, ablution, abscess, abusively, abysmal, abysmally, acrimony, acronym, adactylous, ademption, adequation, adipose, adjag, admonitory, adobe, aerator, afferent, affluence, agnostically, aktograph, alar, alcogel, aldehyde, aleatory, allegiant, allegretto, alluded, alnico, altruistically, amanuensis, ambrosia, amertoy, amice, amidol, amontillado, anachronous, anallobar, analysand, anaqua, anathema, angina, annates, anorthopia, anschluss, antagonistic, anthropoid, antimacassar, antonomasia, apograph, apologia, apologue, apostate, apostrophe, appellative, appendant, appetitost, aquamarine, arabesque, arbustum, archivistic, argillaceous, aristoi, arriero, arsine, arthroscopy, articulacy, artillerist, ascham, asphodel, asphyxiant, assonance, asthmogenic, astrology, atheism, athodyd, aubade, auk, aurulent, auscultation, autodidact, auxilian, axolotl, babblative, bactericidal, bacteriology, badenite, badigeon, baignoire, baize, balata, baleen, ballast, bamboche, bantling, bardiglio, barleycorn, barometer, baroness, baroquely, barrabora, barratry, barretter, bavardage, bedizenment, benday, benison, biblioklept, bibliopegy, bifara, biospeleology, bireme, biserial, bishopric, bivouac, blandishment, blanquette, blasphemous, blatherskite, bleary, blende, bloat, blutwurst, bocaccio, bombycine, bosselated, brachiate, bradenhead, bradyseism, bragget, brandtite, brankursine, brasserie, brochette, bucolic, bumptiously, bureaucracy, bursiculate, butyraceous, cachinnate, cacophony, calando, cambist, camouflage, candelabrum, cannibalism, cannonade, canorous, cantankerous, caracole, carafe, cardinalate, cartilage, casserole, casuistry, catatonic, catenary, cavalcade, cebell, cembalist, centipede, centurion, cerecloth, cetology, chalkography, chandelier, changa, chasmophyte, chassepot, chaussure, chemosphere, chianti, chifforobe, chogset, cholangitis, chromotrichial, chulo, chumming, ciconine, circline, cirrocumulus, civitas, claro, claviger, claymore, cleavability, cliche, clientele, climatic, clinician, clinometer, coagulum, cockleshell, cocozelle, coden, cofferdam, cogitate, cohitre, coiffeuse, cointise, cokery, colectivo, colectomy, collocal, colloquial, colubrine, comminatory, comminute, commissary, commissure, commodore, commutator, compatible, comprimario, concatenate, concentric, conchitic, conchoidal, concordat, confluence, conjuration, connoisseur, connote, conquian, consistory, consummate, contemptuous, convection, convergent, convolute, copen, coquetry, coquettishly, coralene, cordaites, cordwainery, coroner, corporeal, corrugate, corruptible, corsepresent, corte, coruscate, corvette, cosmicality, cosmozoic, cosovereignty, cossyrite, couac, coupette, covert, covetous, cozening, cracknel, craniectomy, craven, crescograph, cretonne, cryophorus, cucaracha, cuchifrito, cyan, cycloserine, cynodont, daedal, dalliance, Daphnean, debarrass, debenture, debonairness, decalage, decapod, decedent, declivous, decuple, defeasible, deglutition, dehiscence, delicatessen, deliquescent, delitescent, deltohedron, deluginous, delusory, demitasse, Demurrage, dermatology, desiccate, dewclaw, diacetate, dieffenbachia, dilatancy, diplegia, dipsas, diptote, dirndl, disaffiliate, discountenance
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Unit 2 (295 words)
disgregate, disparate, disponible, dissilient, dissipated, distilland, distributary, dithyramb, dittography, doab, docible, dockwalloper, dolioform, dolorimetry, dompt, doohickey, dormice, dorsicollar, drahthaar, dreidel, drisheen, dromond, dulciana, dummel, duodenitis, dustblu, dyslexia, ebullition, ecchymosis, eccrinology, eczematous, edentulate, edulcoration, effervescible, effleurage, ekistics, elaphine, elasticity, elucubrate, elysium, email, embergoose, embrocate, embryonic, enervated, ennead, entente, entomogenous, entrepreneur, epistrophe, epopee, epsilon, epyllion, equerry, erasion, erbium, eremic, eremology, erstwhile, espresso, esquamulose, estoppel, etymologicon, euonym, eveque, evulsion, exergue, exoskeleton, expurgatory, exsuccous, facilely, falbala, falsification, fanaticize, fancification, fathom, fauve, featherbedding, fervor, festucine, fibrillation, figurine, filasse, finialed, fissure, fistiana, flagitiously, flammeous, flexuosity, flibbertigibbet, floccose, flotsam, flue, fluorocarbon, fluxion, fondant, foray, forbivorous, forfeiture, fortississimo, framboise, frazil, fremitus, frenetically, frescade, fresco, fricassee, frisson, frontolysis, galette, galleon, gallicize, gallyware, gambrel, gasification, gbo, gemination, genocide, giallolino, gladiolus, glessite, glossopathy, gonitis, goonch, gradus, grail, graminivorous, grandeur, granophyre, greffier, grippe, griseofulvin, guignolet, guipure, gulosity, gummiferous, gumption, gurgitation, gymkhana, hackamore, halcyon, halitosis, hallucinogen, haplology, hardanger, heifer, heiferette, heldentenor, heliography, hemophilia, hemorrhoid, hepatectomy, hepatitis, heptarchy, herbicide, hercogamy, hermetically, hermitage, hexerei, hippotigrine, hippotomy, hircine, hodad, holard, honestone, horizontalize, horst, hospice, hostilely, humectant, humoresque, humstrum, hussar, hyalithe, hydrolysis, hymnody, hypertonic, hypsography, ibidem, ichor, ictus, ideomotor, ignominy, imbibition, imitative, immiserization, immortelle, impasse, impeccable, imperativally, imperturbable, impinge, impluvium, impofo, importune, impresario, imprimis, inadvertence, incienso, incipient, incision, incontrovertible, incorporator, incroyable, incurvariid, indefectible, ineluctable, infaust, inficete, infinitesimal, ingestible, iniquitous, injudiciously, inoculator, insouciance, instructible, insularity, insulin, insusceptibility, intercessory, interlocutor, interminable, intermittence, interregnum, interwrought, inunction, invidious, irascible, irreconcilable, irremediable, irrevocability, isocryme, isosceles, isotron, iwan, jambalaya, jarl, jibboom, jocosity, jocund, jumelle, junket, juratory, kamikaze, karst, katana, keeshond, kepi, keratoplasty, kerseymere, kitsch, knish, knishes, kohlrabi, kraft, kudize, labefaction, laceration, lachrymose, lallation, lamasery, lamina, laminectomy, lamprey, landlubber, larcenous, layette, lebbek, lecithin, leguminous, lerot, levade, lichenophagous, lieutenancy, liliaceous, literati, logarithmic, logistician, longeron, longitudinal, luftmensch, lugubrious, lysin, macerate, mackereler, macrame, macrobiotics, madeleine, mage, magneto, majordomo, majuscule, mandolinist, mange, manicotti
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Unit 3 (298 words)
maraca, marchioness, maremma, marmoraceous, marsupial, marzipan, massotherapy, matelot, maud, maudlinism, mecometer, medalet, mellophone, melophonic, mendicant, mephitic, metagnomy, metallurgical, meuse, miasmic, microcosm, milacre, miljee, mimotype, mirabelle, misanthropic, misericordia, misogyny, mitrailleuse, mittimus, modiste, moire, monarchically, monoplegia, monopsony, monsieur, mosquitoey, multivious, musciform, mussitation, nadir, nahcolite, naphthalenic, narcohypnia, narcolepsy, natator, natte, naupathia, nemoral, neoplasm, neossology, nescience, neurotic, neuston, niccolite, nonrepatriable, nouveau, nugacity, oakenshaw, oakum, obdurate, obeisance, oblivion, obloquy, obrogate, obsidional, obtusely, obviate, oceanodromous, ocelot, ochlophobia, octagonal, oculauditory, odyssey, officinally, oligopoly, omnivorous, oncology, oniomania, onomastics, onymous, opalescent, ophicleide, opodeldoc, opportuneness, opprobrious, orangelo, organzine, orifice, orinasal, orotund, orthic, oscitation, ostentatiously, osteotomy, ostracism, otioseness, oubliette, outrance, outsert, overweening, oxer, oxlip, oxymoron, pachisi, pagination, pagoda, paladin, palindrome, palpability, palynology, panegyric, panoplied, panoramic, parabolize, paranoia, paroxysm, parturition, pasqueflower, patas, pathology, patrikin, paucity, pavilion, pavonine, peccant, pecuniary, pedagogy, peirastic, pelerine, perfidious, pergelisol, perpension, perspiry, pewter, phaeton, pheon, philippic, phillumenist, phlox, phosvitin, physicist, picaresque, piebald, piloncillo, pilosity, pilpul, pincette, pintle, pipit, pityriasis, plangi, platycrania, pleiad, pleuston, pneumatography, polariscopic, poltroon, polydactyly, pomegranate, pompadour, ponderosity, pontificalibus, postulancy, potpourri, pourparler, practitioner, precessional, precisionist, prefatorily, presentient, procacious, procellous, prodigal, profiterole, promulgate, propinquity, proscenium, proselyting, protocol, psammite, psammophile, pseudosyllogism, psilophyton, psychalgia, psychiatry, psychomachy, pteridology, ptosis, puissance, pulsatile, pupillometer, purga, purgatory, putrescent, putsch, pyrosis, quadragenarian, quantum, quatenus, quiddity, quidnunc, quisling, quixotism, raj, raptatorial, rathskeller, ravigote, rayonnant, recalcitration, recompensable, rectitudinous, redivivus, redolence, refocillate, refulgent, regelation, reliquary, relleno, reminiscingly, renunciant, requiescence, resurgency, rhinoscopy, rhizome, rhombus, rognon, roguery, romanticism, rosorial, roustabout, rumfustian, ruminant, runnel, saccharimeter, sacciform, saccule, sacralize, saffian, saibling, salicylate, salify, salsilla, sandhi, sangfroid, saponify, sarcophagus, sarrazin, saskatoon, sauerbraten, scalare, scallopini, scampi, scelidosaur, scherzo, schlich, scilicet, scintiscan, scobiform, scopolamine, scordatura, scrimshaw, sdrucciola, seagirt, sebilla, secretion, secretum, seepage, segregable, seismism, seismograph, selenology, semanticist, semiarid, senary, sensibilia, septifragal, sequester, sesame, sesquipedalian, setigerous, settleable, shad, shallot, shanghaied, shillibeer, shillyshallyer, shogunate, siccative, silvicolous, sinciput, sinewy, sitology, sitzkrieg, sitzmark, skewbald, skiagraphy, skoal
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Unit 4 (179 words)
slantindicular, slapdashery, slatternly, snaggletooth, soave, sociocrat, soleiform, sontag, sortie, soubise, souterrain, spacistor, spanspek, specus, speiss, spiedino, spinescent, spintherism, splenectomize, spoliation, spongicolous, spryness, spurious, squeamish, squelch, squelcher, staccato, stadimeter, stagnicolous, stationarily, steinkern, stencilization, stentorophonic, steppe, stereotomy, sternum, stichometry, stigmatism, stigmatization, strabismus, strafe, stratagem, streptomycin, stricture, strisciando, stroganoff, stromuhr, stultify, stupulose, stypticity, styrene, subclavate, subcortex, subfulgent, subterfuge, succade, suffumigate, sullage, sumi, supercilious, surette, surname, swidden, synovitis, tachycardia, tagraggery, taiaha, taiga, takkanah, tamburello, tantamount, tapia, tapir, tatterdemalion, tauromachy, taxeme, temerarious, tendinitis, tendril, teratology, thanatophidia, thaumaturgy, theodolite, theriatrics, thermoammeter, thesmothete, thonnier, thoracostomy, thorax, thrummed, thymiaterion, tichorrhine, tinnitus, tocsin, tombolo, topology, torrenticole, torsion, toucan, tranquillo, trauma, tremellose, triceratops, tripartite, tripelennamine, tritor, troching, truttaceous, tumulus, tutania, typothetae, typp, ullage, ulmaceous, ulna, ultrafiche, umbellulone, umbilical, umlaut, unau, uncinate, unctuosity, undecipherable, undine, unfirmamented, unicellular, unparallelable, untrammeled, unvitiated, ursiform, vaccinoid, vacuity, vagarious, valedictory, vaporizer, variegated, verbigerate, vermeil, verricule, vicereine, vigintillion, vilipend, vinaigrette, viuva, voltolization, vorspiel, vouchsafe, vulpine, waldhorn, wallaby, wapiti, warrantee, wassailry, wastrel, webelos, wedeln, whally, wherewithal, whewellite, whimsicality, whodunit, wiikite, winsome, wirrah, witan, woebegoneness, wolveboon, wrytail, xenomania, xenophobia, xerostomia, xylography, xystus, yagi, yewberry, zaibatsu, zootechny, zucchetto, zwieback