Term 1: Year 8 Spelling List

The following is a list of words students must learn for the week’s spelling test and class competition. Included is the “Word Attack” task they must complete which will help them learn how to spell the words.  Students will be tested on spelling and meanings of the words and the Word Attack tasks will be collected for marking.

All students have a copy of this sheet.  If they lose it they will need to ask me for another or work from this page.

 

Learn for Week 2 – Word Attack Sheet : Synonymsachieve

definition

malignant

quintuplets

aghast

dependable

manageable

raspberry

banquet

discussion

Learn for Week 3 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Groups

megastructure

receipt

believe

disease

microphone

recognition

cautious

disgraceful

monitor

reindeer

Learn for Week 4 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Poster

addiction

doubt

monolith

relief

bevel

electrician

monopoly

restaurant

bicycle

embarrassed

Learn for Week 5 –

 Word Attack Sheet : Sentences

moral

reusable

bilateral

endurance

morality

rigorousness

bisect

enlighten

mortgage

saucer

Learn for Week 6 –

Word Attack Sheet :Dictionary Definitions

brutal

enough

muscular

sign

brutality

excrete

noticeable

signature

cereal

excretion

Learn for Week 7 –

Word Attack Sheet: Small Words

organisation

similar

character

excusable

participation

similarity

chlorine

familiar

pentagon

skeletal

Learn for Week 8 –

Word Attack Sheet: Anagrams

chrome

familiarity

pentathlon

spaghetti

column

feasible

pharmacy

sprightly

comedian

flawless

Learn for Week 9 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Steps

plausible

subtle

comedy

flawlessness

pleasure

succession

compose

fury

political

suggestion

Learn for Week 10 –

Word Attack Sheet: Word Value

constellation

future

politicise

supersonic

construction

haughty

posterior

symphony

consumable

historian

 

 

TERM 1 :YEAR 9 SPELLING LISTS

The following is a list of words students must learn for the week’s spelling test and class competition. Included is the “Word Attack” task they must complete which will help them learn how to spell the words.  Students will be tested on spelling and meanings of the words and the Word Attack tasks will be collected for marking.

All students have a copy of this sheet.  If they lose it they will need to ask me for another or work from this page.

Learn for Week 2 –

 Word Attack Sheet : Synonyms

irretrievable

quantities

achievement

discrete

legislative

quizzed

acoustics

discretion

malfunction

quotation

 

Learn for Week 3 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Groups

abbreviation

deletion

inventive

psychology

absolutely

depression

irresistible

qualifications

accompaniment

development

 

Learn for Week 4 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Poster

admission

efficiently

malpractice

receivership

admittance

extraction

manoeuvre

remediate

amateurish

fictitious

 

Learn for Week 5 –

 Word Attack Sheet : Sentences

manual

remedy

amusement

factory

manufacture

resign

announcement

fatal

manuscript

resignation

 

Learn for Week 6 –

 Word Attack Sheet :Dictionary Definitions

antebellum

fatality

mignon

scientific

antenatal

foreigner

mischievous

scientifically

archaeology

fractious

 

Learn for Week 7 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Small Words

misinterpretation

sclerosis

assignment

frantically

mitigate

scribble

astonishment

gaseous

moveable

sensibly

 

Learn for Week 8 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Anagrams

ghastly

necessarily

sincerely

beneficial

gnawing

noticeable

sleeplessness

benevolent

horizon

 

Learn for Week 9 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Steps

obstinately

sorghum

benign

horizontal

occasionally

stability

bureau

hurtful

occupation

stable

 

Learn for Week 10 –

 Word Attack Sheet: Word Value

bureaucratic

hurtfulness

opposition

statistician

carefully

imagination

optimistically

stomach

cautiously

imaginative