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Spelling Bee 2017 8th Grade Study List, list 2

List #: 54563

Keywords/tags: Spelling Bee, 8th, SCRIPPS 2017

Created: 02/18/2017

Modified: 02/18/2017

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Unit 1 (99 words)

marvelous, vulpine, catastrophic, quandary, Honolulu, uranium, collision, alpinist, mahogany, neutron, insulin, allegiance, Dantean, perpetrator, avalanche, bedlam, Mylar, exquisite, assailant, functionary, inadvertent, mandarin, physicist, Einstein, tremulous, aperture, prodigious, Stilton, unscrupulous, concussion, legitimately, vagabonds, affectionately, overweening, vengeance, gladiatorial, semaphore, inconceivable, pilgrimage, holocaust, nuisance, enervating, sanctum sanctorum, undulating, Jacobean, hypotenuse, machete, silhouette, conflagration, churlish, mandrill, ascetic, pugnacious, gesticulation, interminable, potentiality, decrepitude, promulgate, constabulary, recusant, Patagonia, syncope, pirouette, crustacean, eucalyptus, moiety, remonstrance, prestidigitation, tetanus, Cotswold, pertinacity, cayenne, Lilliput, patronymic, castellated, ebullience, Hebrides, phosphine, nautilus, outre, pterodactyl, aspidistra, chevalier, toccata, rheumatic, tumulus, gendarme, malacca, huguenot, hors de combat, phrenologist, reveille, ague, netsuke, recherche, supererogation, au fait, wallah, a posteriori