Spelling
2008-2009
Please watch for weekly spelling lists to go home. The words may change slightly from what appears here.
| The Week of October 6th, students will have a test on all 60 of these words. | ||||
| Week 1 Sep 1-Sep 5 |
Week 2 Sep 8-12 |
Week 3 Sep 15-19 |
Week 4 Sep 22-26 |
Week 5 Sep 29-Oct 3 |
| maybe | their | especially | escaped | wealthy |
| than | there | hideous | immediately | idiom |
| probably | artifact | were | write | allowed |
| accident | cuneiform | where | fiction | definitely |
| schedule | sacrifice | curious | right | except |
| then | they're | heard | hour | irrigation |
| serious | entirely | herd | are | versatile |
| president | straight | we're | our | aloud |
| Mesopotamia | museum | wear | aggravated | influential |
| consequence | laughter | opinion | inappropriate | accept |
| confident | strait | psychology | argument | feline |
| creativity | language | fortress | fictitious | canine |
| The Week of November 17th, students will have a test on all 60 of these words. | ||||
| Week 6 Oct 13-17 |
Week 7 Oct 20-24 |
Week 8 Oct 27-31 |
Week 9 Nov 3-7 |
Week 10 Nov 10-14 |
| conceal | recipient | extraordinary | witch | opposite |
| amethyst | economy | tomb | excellent | interrogation |
| gymnasium | your | description | legitimate | destruction |
| weird | personification | sail | cymbal | legacy |
| atrium | leisure | sarcophagus | which | cent |
| Chinese | bravery | government | suggestion | sympathy |
| attention | physician | pharaoh | preposition | career |
| strict | you're | sphinx | symbol | fought |
| boulder | medicine | susceptible | oasis | scent |
| bolder | peninsula | sale | hieroglyphics | sent |
| quarrel | heroic | primary | villain | terrific |
| mutiny | heroine | secondary | amphibian | fabulous |
| The Week of January 12th, students will have a test on all 60 of these words. | ||||
| Week 11 Dec 1-5 |
Week 12 Dec 8-12 |
Week 13 Dec 15-19 |
Week 14 Dec 31-Jan 4 |
Week 15 Jan 5-9 |
| obvious | procedure | muscle | Apollo | criticize |
| depicted | ammunition | philosopher | alliance | separate |
| inconvenient | prejudice | possible | monarchy | Hercules |
| experience | guarantee | legend | oracle | patience |
| believe | incredible | routine | oligarchy | marathon |
| defeat | intelligent | statue | democracy | Pericles |
| victory | hyperbole | receive | mythology | Parthenon |
| cooperate | bizarre | fantastic | board | column |
| analogy | bazaar | scene | plague | patient |
| belief | knuckle | seen | bored | Olympics |
| believable | custom | opponent | amphitheater | pear |
| rookie | error | quality | permanent | pair |
| Week 16 | Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 20 |
| steer | through | biography | foreign | patrician |
| league | position | brilliant | subtle | plebeian |
| exploration | steal | graceful | Jupiter | passed |
| ambulance | beautiful | contest | scandal | surplus |
| college | unusual | disease | sever | principle |
| jealous | threw | autobiography | tomorrow | imperial |
| rebel | vague | ancient | thief | brief |
| shield | steel | incident | theft | glimpse |
| confusion | rode | instrument | surrender | past |
| discussion | road | impossible | severe | principal |
| enough | compliment | mansion | saddle | stirrups |
| important | applause | authority | discovery | grapple |
| Week 21 | Week 22 | Week 23 | Week 24 |
| whole | reign | preposition | determination |
| contribution | rain | infuriate | education |
| barbarian | whether | mature | empire |
| worse | weather | synonym | conquest |
| thought | precipitation | antonym | chivalry |
| republic | trivial | destroy | apparition |
| elite | medal | descent | amazing |
| worst | meddle | decide | mosquito |
| hole | siege | decline | medieval |
| unique | metal | stadium | courage |
| concrete | hurricane | shampoo | author |
| aqueduct | asylum | fascinate | appearance |
| Week 25 | Week 26 | Week 27 | Week 28 | Week 29 |
| crusade | prophecy | congratulate | merchant | fiery |
| criminal | inferior | precious | terrifying | ignorance |
| precaution | squire | design | heraldry | jewelry |
| disgusting | trebuchet | different | Renaissance | kernel |
| cathedral | knight | difference | completion | colonel |
| honorable | castle | sincerely | contagious | lightning |
| catapult | disaster | culture | clergy | misspell |
| surf | vassal | Gothic | suspense | neighborhood |
| serf | vessel | Romanesque | cardinal | receipt |
| feudalism | pilgrim | dramatic | won't | rhyme |
| fief | haiku | surround | inventive | rhythm |
| grateful | invisible | source | thorough | vacuum |