8th Grade Spelling Words
Our list of 8th grade spelling words contains 250 challenging, interesting words! What can be better than knowing how to use and spell words like phenomenon, meticulous, and voracious?
Students at this level should already have a mastery of many of the words they use. However, many may still have "glitches" - a misunderstood or forgotten spelling rule, a few words they consistently misspell, and some important words they've not yet encountered.
Eighth graders are developing wide-ranging vocabularies. Let's be sure they can spell the words they use!
8th Grade Spelling Words
Printable version of 8th grade spelling words
| accommodate | abstain | accumulate |
| accustomed | acoustics | acquaintance |
| acquisition | acquittal | adolescence |
| adolescent | advantageous | aerial |
| amateur | amnesty | anecdote |
| annoyance | anonymous | antecedent |
| antidote | antiseptic | anxious |
| apology | apostrophe | appendixes |
| applicant | approximate | archaic |
| architect | arrangement | asphalt |
| asterisk | asthma | awkward |
| bachelor | bankruptcy | barometer |
| belligerent | berserk | besieged |
| biannual | bimonthly | biographical |
| brilliance | budge | burglary |
| cameos | capably | caricature |
| catastrophe | chameleon | chandelier |
| characteristic | chauffeur | chrysanthemum |
| circumference | collaborate | collateral |
| colleague | colonel | confiscate |
| confiscation | conscious | consequence |
| considerable | contagious | controversy |
| continuous | correlation | council |
| counsel | criticism | criticize |
| critique | crypt | cylinder |
| deficiency | desirable | desolate |
| deterrent | diagnosis | dialogue |
| dilemma | disbursement | discernible |
| discrepancy | dominance | embargo |
| endeavor | envious | epidemic |
| equilibrium | erroneous | escalator |
| excessive | existence | extremity |
| extricate | façade | fashionable |
| fiasco | fibrous | fiery |
| flamboyant | forgery | frivolous |
| frostbitten | glamorous | gorgeous |
| grotesque | gymnasium | haphazard |
| hazardous | headquarters | honorary |
| horrific | hospitality | incidentally |
| inconvenience | indulgence | inept |
| inevitable | innumerable | insistent |
| insufficient | integrity | intermittent |
| internally | interrogate | jewelry |
| legitimate | leisure | lieutenant |
| longevity | lucrative | lunar |
| luncheon | luxurious | malady |
| malicious | malignant | melodious |
| mercenary | mesmerize | meteor |
| meticulous | metropolitan | minimize |
| miscellaneous | mischievous | misdemeanor |
| necessity | negligence | neutral |
| newsstand | nostalgia | noticeable |
| obesity | obscure | obsolete |
| obstinate | occurred | ominous |
| optimism | optimistic | outrageous |
| pageant | parachute | paralysis |
| parliament | penitentiary | perceive |
| permeate | perseverance | personality |
| personification | persuade | phenomenon |
| plaintiff | pneumonia | politician |
| potential | precipice | precocious |
| predecessor | preferably | prestigious |
| procrastinate | propeller | prosperous |
| protein | pseudonym | psychiatrist |
| questionnaire | radioactive | rampage |
| recurrent | rehearsal | relevant |
| religious | roommate | sacrifice |
| sacrificial | sanctuary | scandalized |
| schedule | scheme | schism |
| scholar | semester | serviceable |
| shrine | shuddering | sieve |
| snobbery | solitary | sophomore |
| studious | subtlety | suburban |
| surmise | susceptible | suspicious |
| taboo | technically | technology |
| tyranny | unacceptable | unconscious |
| undernourished | unduly | unenforceable |
| unique | universal | unpredictable |
| unsanitary | utopia | vaccinate |
| vacillate | venom | vertigo |
| vessel | vigilant | villain |
| vitamin | vivacious | vocalize |
| voracious | voucher | vulnerable |
| withhold |
Use this general list of 8th grade spelling words to supplement your own spelling program. These words are great to use for worksheets, games and puzzles.
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More Helpful Word Lists
Students may also find it helpful to study these words for spelling bee competitions. This list is especially good for 7th and 8th grade spelling bee contestants.
8th graders may also find these word lists to be helpful:
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misspelled words Have you mastered all of these? Do you spell these words correctly every time? Try words including accommodate, acquaintance, courageous, desperately, mischievous, rhythm, schedule, separate, and dozens more!
50 Sets of often confused
homonyms We give you definitions and sample sentences to help you learn to correctly use these sometimes tricky words.
9th grade spelling words Try this next set of challenging words that includes ubiquitous, idiosyncrasy, rococo and many more. How many do you already know?
Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.
Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.
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