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Sample Vocabulary Word Lists (Grades 3–12)
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Grade 3

  • generous
  • assist
  • enormous
  • fragile
  • gleeful
  • observe
  • glide
  • gigantic
  • gather
  • clumsy
  • eager
  • murmur
  • swift
  • gentle
  • joyful
  • tidy
  • calm
  • lively
  • happy
  • big
  • run
  • friend
  • loud
  • eat
  • small
  • fast
  • jump
  • sad
  • old
  • read
  • nice
  • day
  • write
  • pretty
  • top
  • sing
  • smart
  • wet
  • draw
  • funny
  • heavy
  • catch
  • brave
  • up
  • throw
  • clean
  • full
  • give

    • Grade 4

  • vivid
  • predict
  • interrupt
  • fragile
  • observe
  • grateful
  • courageous
  • rapid
  • harsh
  • beneath
  • enormous
  • replay
  • vanish
  • brisk
  • collapse
  • sturdy
  • fragile
  • brave
  • dim
  • rare
  • shallow
  • observe
  • rough
  • narrow
  • gather
  • ancient
  • discover
  • reply
  • arrive
  • protect
  • gift
  • explain
  • choice
  • imagine
  • mistake
  • generous
  • journey
  • create
  • prepare
  • loyal
  • remember
  • solution
  • simple
  • share
  • tidy
  • usual
  • wander
  • value
  • wise
  • zoom

    • Grade 5

  • fragile
  • exaggerate
  • hesitate
  • elevate
  • absorb
  • cautious
  • complex
  • expand
  • vanish
  • recycle
  • autograph
  • predict
  • hesitate
  • transport
  • expand
  • transform
  • curious
  • combine
  • preview
  • autograph
  • soar
  • scribe
  • bounce
  • gigantic
  • enormous
  • assemble
  • construct
  • transport
  • extract
  • generate
  • journey
  • marvelous
  • peculiar
  • scatter
  • tremendous
  • unique
  • venture
  • wary
  • zeal
  • abundant
  • baffle
  • candid
  • deliberate
  • eccentric
  • ferocious
  • genuine
  • hinder
  • immense
  • keen
  • lurk
  • nimble
  • outstanding
  • artificial
  • barrier
  • complex
  • dedicate
  • durable
  • evaluate
  • flexible
  • genuine
  • interpret
  • justify
  • lucid
  • modify
  • numerous
  • optimistic
  • predict
  • reliable
  • significant
  • summarize
  • transform
  • verify
  • widespread
  • yield
  • beneath
  • constant
  • demonstrate

    • Grade 6

  • transform
  • disrupt
  • reluctant
  • vital
  • magnify
  • inspire
  • conflict
  • reliable
  • migrate
  • announce
  • ancient
  • reduce
  • detest
  • summarize
  • subtract
  • drenched
  • glance
  • leap
  • grasp
  • aquatic
  • thermometer
  • kilometer
  • diameter
  • accumulate
  • adequate
  • assess
  • compile
  • conclude
  • consistent
  • demonstrate
  • diverse
  • emphasize
  • essential
  • formulate
  • generate
  • harmonious
  • illustrate
  • interpret
  • justify
  • narrate
  • objective
  • organize
  • predict
  • relevant
  • valid
  • witness

    • Grade 7

  • scarce
  • abundant
  • neglect
  • generate
  • transparent
  • contribute
  • submit
  • unique
  • benevolent
  • emerge
  • scarce
  • debate
  • precise
  • biology
  • autograph
  • portable
  • contradict
  • deduce
  • hypothesis
  • imply
  • justify
  • narrate
  • ambiguous
  • coherent
  • diverse
  • adapt
  • ambiguous
  • attribute
  • cite
  • comprehensive
  • convey
  • derive
  • diligent
  • exemplify
  • feasible
  • hypothesis
  • inhibit
  • meticulous
  • perceive
  • synthesize
  • uniform
  • validate
  • warrant

    • Grade 8

  • benevolent
  • elaborate
  • dormant
  • conclude
  • reveal
  • strategy
  • precaution
  • illuminate
  • reluctant
  • transparent
  • vanish
  • reluctant
  • meticulous
  • prudent
  • astute
  • judicious
  • discreet
  • ambivalent
  • brevity
  • coalesce
  • conformity
  • debilitate
  • discern
  • expedite
  • fallacious
  • gratuitous
  • hierarchy
  • immutable
  • indigenous
  • innate
  • juxtapose
  • lethargic
  • meticulous
  • nostalgia
  • obsolete
  • paradox
  • prolific
  • quintessential
  • reiterate

    • Grade 9

  • inevitable
  • hinder
  • precise
  • manipulate
  • withdraw
  • portable
  • analyze
  • conform
  • spectator
  • contradict
  • arid
  • arrogant
  • inspect
  • export
  • collaborate
  • submerge
  • emerge
  • subtract
  • construct
  • inject
  • conceal
  • telegraph
  • convey
  • construct
  • reject
  • revise
  • resilient
  • analyze
  • dismiss
  • rigid
  • pliable
  • volatile
  • ephemeral
  • immutable
  • transient
  • abhor
  • anomaly
  • capricious
  • disparity
  • eclectic
  • fallacy
  • gregarious
  • laconic
  • myriad
  • nefarious
  • obdurate
  • paradigm
  • quixotic
  • reproach
  • sagacious
  • tenuous
  • ubiquitous
  • veracity
  • wary
  • zealot
  • antithesis
  • bellicose

    • Grade 10

  • contemplate
  • efficient
  • hostile
  • diminish
  • restrict
  • justify
  • advocate
  • benevolent
  • diligent
  • impartial
  • novel
  • spontaneous
  • wary
  • inept
  • precede
  • mundane
  • obsolete
  • formulate
  • hostile
  • dismiss
  • revere
  • mediate
  • contemplate
  • deplete
  • clarify
  • explicit
  • antagonist
  • compensate
  • dismissive
  • hinder
  • compile
  • digress
  • disdain
  • depict
  • innovative
  • oblivious
  • compile
  • futile
  • impartial
  • abundant
  • elaborate
  • provoke
  • skeptical
  • transmit
  • detrimental
  • vanish
  • conceal
  • disperse
  • articulate
  • delineate
  • abstruse
  • affable
  • alacrity
  • capitulate
  • cogent
  • deleterious
  • diffidence
  • ephemeral
  • exacerbate
  • fastidious
  • incipient
  • jocular
  • languid
  • magnanimous
  • nebulous
  • obsequious
  • penurious
  • rancorous
  • soporific
  • truculent
  • ubiquitous
  • vacillate
  • winsome

    • Grade 11

  • resilient
  • scarcity
  • chaotic
  • alleviate
  • candid
  • emulate
  • feasible
  • hypothetical
  • innovate
  • meticulous
  • scrutinize
  • tenacious
  • concur
  • scrutinize
  • detrimental
  • articulate
  • reverence
  • invoke
  • adversity
  • comprehensive
  • manipulate
  • abridge
  • coerce
  • skeptical
  • coherent
  • lucid
  • invoke
  • resolute
  • mitigate
  • jeopardize
  • altruistic
  • transcend
  • abstain
  • advocate
  • discrepancy
  • intervene
  • deference
  • innate
  • reconcile
  • suppress
  • lament
  • thwart
  • perceive
  • vulnerable
  • scrutinize
  • feasible
  • insightful
  • notorious
  • serene
  • inevitable
  • peer
  • scrutinize
  • ponder
  • contemplate
  • reflect
  • aberration
  • acquiesce
  • amalgamate
  • assuage
  • corroborate
  • desiccate
  • disingenuous
  • eclectic
  • enervate
  • fastidious
  • garrulous
  • immutable
  • indolent
  • innocuous
  • myriad
  • obdurate
  • penurious
  • prolific
  • recalcitrant
  • soporific

    • Grade 12

  • simulate
  • ambiguous
  • frivolous
  • lucid
  • obscure
  • pragmatic
  • substantiate
  • vindicate
  • placate
  • transient
  • bolster
  • refute
  • elicit
  • relinquish
  • eradicate
  • prolong
  • autonomy
  • complacent
  • fluctuate
  • ambivalent
  • underscore
  • validate
  • inherent
  • corroborate
  • rescind
  • refute
  • elusive
  • incessant
  • metamorphosis
  • vindicate
  • relinquish
  • geology
  • chronological
  • anthropology
  • psychology
  • sociology
  • abnegation
  • anachronistic
  • circumlocution
  • contumacious
  • didactic
  • ebullient
  • epistolary
  • exculpate
  • fatuous
  • gregarious
  • hegemony
  • impecunious
  • inculcate
  • jejune
  • kowtow
  • lugubrious
  • mendacious
  • neophyte
  • obfuscate
  • parsimonious
  • polemical
  • quiescent
  • recapitulate
  • sentient
  • tenable
  • umbrage