VOCAB

LIST FOR SPELLING BEE COMPETITION: AS ACCORDING TO CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE (FORM 4).

SPELLING BEE CONTEST

SOURCE 1: http://www2.sharonherald.com/herald/nie/spellb/spelllist1.html
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BEGINNER: TWO/ONE SYLLABLE
1. Abscess is a localized collection of pus in tissues of the body.
2. Benign is having a kindly disposition.
3. Canvass is to solicit votes.
4. Drought is a period of dry weather.
5. Flaunt means to display oneself conspicuously.
6. Eerie is uncanny, weird.
7. Ghoul is an evil demon, a grave-robber.
8. Hearth is the floor of a fireplace.
9. Incense is a substance producing sweet odor when burned, used in
religious ceremonies to enhance a mood.
10. Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin or eyes.
11. Khaki means dull yellowish brown.
12. Leisure is freedom from the demands of work.
13. Malice is the desire to inflict harm on someone.
14. Nausea is sickness at the stomach, especially when loathing food.
15. Opaque is not allowing light to pass through.
16. Parfait is a dessert of ice cream and fruit, or ice cream and syrup.
17. Queer is strange or odd.
18. Routine is a customary or usual procedure.
19. Stature is the height of a human or animal body.
20. Trample is to tread or stamp heavily.
21. Vacuum is a space entirely devoid of matter.
22. Wield is to exercise power or authority.
23. Yacht is a private cruising vessel.

BEGINNER: THREE/FOUR SYLLABLE
1. Assassin is a murderer, especially in politics.
2. Consomme is a clear soup.
3. Defendant is a person against whom a charge is brought against in
court.

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Eulogy is a speech in praise of a dead person.

Feasible is capable of being done.
Governor is the chief executive of a state.
Harbinger is a herald, or one who goes before.
Inertia is lack of motion, sluggishness.
Jeopardy is risk to loss, harm, death or injury.
Kerosene is a mixture of hydrocarbons used as fuel, or cleaning
material.
Legible is capable of being read or deciphered with ease.
Massacre is the unnecessary killing of human beings, as in a war.
Nocturnal is of or pertaining to the night.
Omission is the act of omitting.
Parallel is extending in the same direction, but never converging.
Reactor is an apparatus in which a nuclear chain-reaction can be
obtained.
Souvenir is a usually inexpensive reminder of a place visited.
Telescope is an instrument to make distant objects appear larger.
Unconscious means without awareness or cognition

INTERMEDIATE (TWO/ONE SYLLABLE)
1. Avenge is to exact satisfaction for.
2. Buoy is a float used to mark a water channel.
3. Callous is hard or indifferent.
4. Docile is easily handled or manageable.
5. Eclair is a finger-shaped creampuff.
6. Fuchsia is a bright, purplish-red color.
7. Genre is a class of artistic endeavor having a particular form.
8. Heir is a person who inherits.
9. Invoice is an itemized bill for goods or services.
10. Jackal is a wild dog of Asia and Africa.
11. Knave is an unprincipled or dishonest person.

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Luscious is highly pleasing to the taste or smell.

Mature is complete in natural growth or development.
Noxious is harmful or injurious to health.
Onyx is black.
Pasture is grass used to feed livestock.
Quiche is a dish with cheeses and other vegetables.
Recluse is a person who lives apart or in seclusion.

SOURCE 2

GRADE 5
disguise, percent, recommend, pleasure, official, stomach, exercise, instruction,
restaurant, success, piano, decide, future, shoulder, distance, familiar, wrinkle,
disease, journey, doubt, breathe, equal, discourage, tournament, achieve,
sweater, attitude, cereal, similar, reduce, pleasant, memorable, jealous, police,
repetition, average, nervous, electric, guitar, wreathe, celebration, museum,
dangerous, pronounce, vacant, initial, easiest, damage, concern, loathe

GRADE 6
continue, adventure, gracious, drought, disaster, chemical, surgery, knowledge,
pursue, serious, orchestra, believe, legible, establish, cooperate, obedience,
necessary, identical, coincidence, vacuum, grocery, horrible, prefer, resemble,
scissors, government, ignore, column, science, responsible, character, schedule,
rhythm, conscience, imaginary, sentence, companion, fasten, inquire, author,
century, scholar, cousin, whistle, forfeit, prediction, possible
silence, choir, evidence

GRADE 7
environment, sympathy, imagination, recognize, committee, collaborate,
strength, nonsense, opportunity, enormous, accomplish, disappear, familiar,
beneath, location, innocent, guarantee, ancient, receipt, engineer, tongue,
specific, misery, stingy, collection, ordinary, headache, foreign, interior, pierce,

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Seclude is to withdraw into solitude.

Taffy is a chewy candy.
Ulcer is a sore on the skin.
Veneer is a thin layer of wood.
Waive is to give up or to forgo.
Zucchini is a variety of summer squash.

civilization, entrance, variety, congratulate, happiness, investigate, astonish,

original, personality, estimate, graduate, dialogue, inferior, incredible, stereo,
chemistry, fatigue, envelope
vehicle, function


GRADE 8
constitution, generosity, economic, endeavor, cylinder, abbreviate, picturesque,
molecular, amateur, unique, mischievous, approximate, descendant, epidemic,
communicate, scheme, substitute, acknowledge, gigantic, contagious, legislature,
rehearsal, prosperous, tragedy, sanctuary, necessary, customary, aerial,
category, definite, benevolent, politician, vocalize, threaten, priority, intercept,
alternate, ceramic, essential, sustain, poisonous, ingredient, frequency, desolate,
apology, deceitful, concept, durable
partial, declaration

GRADE 8+
auxiliary, deprivation, equation, hideous, nausea, reservoir, studious, reputable,
antidote, chronic, benediction, credential, altercation, grotesque, poignant,
authentic, convenience, sabotage, camouflage, tedious, expedient, hallucination,
flexibility, mesmerize, stringent, lustrous, feasibility, mediator, tutorial, perjury

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SOURCE 3: http://www.spelling-words-well.com/spelling-bee-word-list.html

Grade 5.
1. different
2. language

3. mammal
4. dessert
5. favourite
6. express
7. thoughtful

8. surprise
9. stomach
10. pattern
11. pleasure
12. probably

13. numeral
14. neither
15. million
16. massage
17. section
18. actor
19. annual
20. beginning
21. except
22. laughter
23. island
24. inventor
25. journey



Grade 6
1. especially

2. league
3. ancient
4. nationality

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vault
honorable
struggling
intermission
acquire
vacuum
persuade
mechanic
requirement
accidentally
performance
disastrous
scissors
vegetable
appearance

Grade 7
1. authority
2. consequently
3. quotation
4. celery
5. phantom
6. adjustable
7. statistics
8. endurance
9. spacious
10. resigned
11. competent
12. influence
13. emphasize
14. misbehaved
15. compressor
16. courtesy

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undernourished
havoc
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Grade 8
1. outrageous

2. rectangular

3. honorary

4. minimize
5. contrary
6. passageway

7. vertigo



EXTRA MATERIALS:

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https://www.time4learning.com/SpellingWords/5th-grade-spelling-words.shtml

http://sms.nafcs.k12.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/spelling-bee-word-guide.pdf

malady
lucrative
extraordinary
abstain
procrastinate
serviceable
parliament
necessity
recurrent
ominous
permeate
religious
occurred

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VOCAB LIST FOR SPELLING BEE COMPETITION: AS ACCORDING TO CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE (FORM 4).

UPPER SECONDARY (FORM 4) = FROM MOES HSP

TWO/ONE SYLLABLE

1. AMUSE
2. AWKWARD
3. BREADTH
4. BRASS
5. CARRIAGE
6. CANAL
7. DECEIVE
8. DESCEND
9. EXPENSE
10. EXTORT
11. FREQUENT
12. FORBID
13. GOVERN
14. GLORY
15. HARBOR
16. HOLLOW
17. INQUIRE
18. INTEND
19. JUDGE
20. KEEPER
21. KIND
22. LANDSLIDE
23. LIQUID
24. MOTION
25. MERE
26. NOBLE
27. NATIVE
28. OMIT
29. OUGHT
30. PROMPT
31. PLOUGH
32. REDUCE

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RELIEVE
SLOPE
SOW
THREATEN
TEMPER
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THREE/FOUR SYLLABLE
1. ARTIFICIAL
2. ASTONISH
3. BOUNDARY
4. CONSCIOUS
5. CONVERSATION
6. DETERMINE
7. DESIRE
8. DISTINGUISH
9. ENTIRE
10. ESSENTIAL
11. FOREIGNER
12. GENEROUS
13. GRADUAL
14. IMMEDIATE
15. IMAGINE
16. LITERATURE
17. MANDATORY
18. MANUFACTURE
19. NONSENSE
20. NUISANCE
21. OCCASION
22. ORNAMENT
23. PRODUCE
24. PROCESSION
25. RECOMMEND
26. REMEDY
27. SACRIFICE
28. TERRIBLE

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