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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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Fun Brain Teasers for Students These fun brain teasers will check your students' spelling and vocabulary skills. They’ll also tickle their funny bones! Try to answer such questions as "What can be right by never wrong?" "What part of a book do you sleep under?" and many more!

Travel Teaser - One of our most difficult logic brain teasers. Can you figure out who went where and when? You'll need to know the correct spellings of several tricky words, plus you'll need to read carefully, and -- of course -- use skills in logic and critical thinking.

Which One Is It? Don’t try to solve this tricky puzzle while you’re blindfolded. Instead, use what you know about correct spelling! Choose the one word that is spelled correctly and write it in the puzzle. Write the misspelled word correctly in the blank on the clues page.

Muddled Music Crossword - Sharpen your focus to solve this one! Replace one or two letters in each clue to spell a musical term.

Synonym Crossword: Can you solve this mammoth-sized challenge? For each clue you must select a synonym that fits into the diagram. Of course, some words have a LOT of synonyms, so you have to think carefully to choose the right one that fits into the crossword and works with all the answers. But surely, you CAN do it!!!

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:

102 frequently 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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