8th Grade Spelling Words
Our list of 8th grade spelling words contains a lot of 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 | archeology |
| 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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Students may also find it helpful to study these words for spelling bee competitions.
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