Spelling Lists

Our Spelling Words come from the High-Incidence Academic Word List. This list is a compilation of 570 words which are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English, but which occur frequently over a wide range of academic texts.

Every week I will add the Spelling List for the week to the BOTTOM of this page.  Please go to the bottom of the list to find the current week's words.  I am keeping the past lists on this page so you can use them for review purposes.

List 1 - Week of August 21

1. alternate
2. circumstance
3. deduce
4. emphasis
5. framework
6. illustrate
7. justify
8. layer
9. maximize
10. negate

List 2 - Week of August 28

1. comment
2. demonstrate
3. ensure
4. fund
5. immigrate
6. link
7. minor
8. outcome
9. partner
10. react

List 3 - Week of September 5

1. compensate
2. document
3. exclude
4. imply
5. locate
6. philosophy
7. register
8. scheme
9. task
10. valid

List 4 - Week of September 11

1. component
2. dominate
3. initial
4. physical
5. rely
6. sequence
7. technical
8. volume
9. access
10. civil

List 5 - Week of September 18

1. consent
2. instance
3. proportion
4. remove
5. shift
6. technique
7. adequate
8. code
9. debate
10. emerge

List 6 - Week of September 25

1. considerable
2. interact
3. publish
4. specify
5. technology
6. annual
7. commit
8. despite
9. error
10. goal

List 7 - Week of October 2

1. constant
2. sufficient
3. apparent
4. communicate
5. dimension
6. ethnic
7. grant
8. hence
9. implement
10. label

List 8 - Week of October 10

1. constrain
2. approximate
3. concentrate
4. domestic
5. hypothesis
6. implicate
7. mechanism
8. obvious
9. parallel
10. regime

Review (Lists 1 - 8) - Week of October 16

1. circumstance
2. emphasis
3. demonstrate
4. comment
5. document
6. compensate
7. physical
8. technical
9. instance
10. adequate
11. considerable
12. despite
13. communicate
14. sufficient
15. approximate
16. obvious

List 9 - Week of October 23

1. contribute
2. attitude
3. confer
4. impose
5. occupy
6. parameter
7. resolve
8. series
9. undertake
10. academy

List 10 - Week of October 30

1. convene
2. attribute
3. contrast
4. integrate
5. option
6. phrase
7. retain
8. statistic
9. adjust
10. capacity

List 11 - Week of November 6

1. coordinate
2. cycle
3. internal
4. output
5. predict
6. status
7. alter
8. challenge
9. decline
10. enable

List 12 - Week of November 13

1. core
2. investigate
3. overall
4. principal
5. stress
6. amend
7. clause
8. discrete
9. energy
10. facilitate

Space/Challenger Words - Week of November 20

1. gravity
2. launch
3. rover
4. spacecraft
5. orbit
6. Challenger
7. mission
8. probe
9. lunar
10. exploration

List 13 - Week of November 27

1. corporate
2. prior
3. subsequent
4. aware
5. compound
6. draft
7. enforce
8. fundamental
9. generate
10. image

List 14 - Week of December 4

1. correspond
2. professional
3. summary
4. conflict
5. entity
6. generation
7. liberal
8. margin
9. network
10. objective

List 15 - Week of December 11

1. criteria
2. project
3. consult
4. equivalent
5. license
6. medical
7. notion
8. orient
9. perspective
10. ratio

Review (Lists 9 - 15) - Week of January 3

1. attitude
2. option
3. phrase
4. challenge
5. investigate
6. fundamental
7. generate
8. professional
9. objective
10. criteria

List 16 - Week of January 8

1. promote
2. contact
3. evolve
4. logic
5. mental
6. precise
7. reject
8. stable
9. target
10. version

List 17 - Week of January 16

1. expand
2. modify
3. prime
4. revenue
5. style
6. transit
7. welfare
8. abstract
9. bond
10. capable

List 18 - Week of January 22

1. expose
2. monitor
3. psychology
4. substitute
5. trend
6. whereas
7. accurate
8. brief
9. cite
10. discriminate

List 19 - Week of January 29

1. external
2. pursue
3. sustain
4. acknowledge
5. cooperate
6. display
7. edit
8. federal
9. general
10. ignorant

List 20 - Week of February 5

1. symbol
2. aggregate
3. diverse
4. enhance
5. fee
6. incentive
7. lecture
8. migrate
9. neutral
10. overseas

List 21 - Week of February 12

1. allocate
2. domain
3. estate
4. flexible
5. incidence
6. minimum
7. nevertheless
8. precede
9. rational
10. scope

List 22 - Week of February 20

1. assign
2. exceed
3. furthermore
4. incorporate
5. ministy
6. presume
7. recover
8. subsidy
9. trace
10. underlie

List 23 - Week of February 26

1. attach
2. expert
3. index
4. motive
5. reveal
6. transform
7. utilize
8. adapt
9. channel
10. decade

List 24 - Week of March 5

1. author
2. explicit
3. inhibit
4. transport
5. advocate
6. chemical
7. definite
8. eliminate
9. file
10. globe

List 25 - Week of March 26

1. initiate
2. classic
3. deny
4. empirical
5. finite
6. grade
7. hierarchy
8. identical
9. media
10. paradigm

Exchange City Words - Week of April 2

1. resources
2. supply
3. demand
4. scarcity
5. consumer
6. gross
7. net
8. goods
9. services
10. marketing

List 26 - Week of April 16

1. input
2. comprehensive
3. differentiate
4. equip
5. foundation
6. guarantee
7. ideology
8. mode
9. phenomenon
10. quote

List 27 - Week of April 23

1. instruct
2. comprise
3. dispose
4. extract
5. infer
6. priority
7. release
8. simulate
9. thesis
10. ultimate

List 28 - Week of April 30

1. intelligence
2. confirm
3. dynamic
4. innovate
5. prohibit
6. reverse
7. sole
8. topic
9. unique
10. visible

List 29 - Week of May 7

1. interval
2. contrary
3. insert
4. publication
5. somewhat
6. transmit
7. voluntary
8. abandon
9. bias
10. chart

List 30 - Week of May 14

1. convert
2. intervene
3. submit
4. accompany
5. clarify
6. denote
7. eventual
8. fluctuate
9. guideline
10. highlight

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