Zion Lutheran Church and School
625 Church Drive, Bethalto IL 62010



Spelling and Vocabulary Words

 

Week Of
Words

January 2

Unit 1

admonish, breach, brigand, circumspect, commandeer, cumbersome, deadlock, debris, diffuse, dilemma, efface, muddle, opinionated, perennial, predispose, relinquish, salvage, spasmodic, spurious, unbridled

January 9

Unit 2

adjourn, alien, comely, compensate, dissolute, erratic, expulsion, feint, fodder, fortify, illegible, jeer, lucrative, mediocre, proliferate, subjugate, sully, tantalize, terse, unflinching

January 16

Unit 3

abridge, adherent, altercation, cherubic, condone, dissent, eminent, exorcise, fabricate, irate, marauder, obesity, pauper, pilfer, rift, sembalnce, surmount, terminate, trite, usurp

January 23

Review 1-3

January 30

Unit 4

abscond, access, anarchy, arduous, auspicious, biased, daunt, disentangle, fated, hoodwink, inanimate, incinerate, intrepid, larceny, pliant, pompous, precipice, rectify, reprieve, revile

February 6

Unit 5

accomplice, annihilate, arbitrary, brazen, catalyst, exodus, facilitate, incorrigible, latent, militant, morose, opaque, paramount, prattle, rebut, reprimand, servitude, slapdash, stagnant, succumb

February 13

Unit 6

atone, bondage, credible, defray, diligent, doleful, ghastly, hamper, hew, impoverished, incessant, intricate, lucid, posthmous, prim, sardonic, superfluous, supplant, taunt, tenacious

February 20

Review 4-6

inanimate, paramount, posthumous, succumb, arduous, incessant, auspicious, defray, fated, rectify, reprimand, hoodwink, abscond, slapdash, doleful, anarchy, daunt, morose, taunt, atone

February 27

Unit 7

adieu, advent, apex, assimilate, bogus, exorbitant, interim, inundate, malign, meander, metropolis, momentous, obstreperous, pensive, perilous, shoddy, sprightly, surly, tirade, vagrant

March 5

Unit 8

assurance, asylum, console, dilate, dross, dwindle, flippant, immunity, institute, liability, preposterous, pugnacious, rabid, realm, rejuvenate, remunerate, sparse, sterling, venture, warp

March 12

Unit 9

 

March 19

Review 7-9

 

March 26

Unit 10

adept, aspire, bleak, chide, despicable, diminutive, emancipate, erroneous, exploit, extemporaneous, impair, invincible, languid, mire, obtrusive, preamble, render, rugged, skeptical slipshod

April 9

Unit 11

brevity, comport, concise, demure, depreciation, deteriorate, divulge, enlightened, forestall, garble, proponent, quaver, recoil, recoup, reek, relentless, rivulet, squander,s taccato, statute

April 16

None due to our Chicago Class Trip

April 23

Unit 12

appreciable, autocratic, blanch, blasphemy, brawny, concerted, contend, humane, illustrious, intolerable, rreverent, laborious, lithe, maltreat, ponder, subversive, synthetic, temperate, venomous, wily

April 30

Unit 13

ad infinitum, apportion, bona fide, vuoyant, clique, concede, congenial, lofty, migration, perceive, perverse, prelude, rancid, rustic, sever, sordid, untenable, versatile, vindicate, wane

May 7

Unit 14

annex, cleave, cordial, cornerstone, debacle, devitalize, embroil, exonerate, glib, haphazard, improvise, incite, influx, pallor, pedigree, precipitous, profuse, reconcile, shackle, threadbare

May 14

Unit 15

abase, actuate, avert, boorish, brunt, combatant, dormant, dubious, harangue, harry, impenitent, knave, legion, liberality, plaintiff, probe, protract, quarry, spurn, subterfuge
May 21
 

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