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7th grade list

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accelerate
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accompanied
accost
accumulate
accuse
acquittal
adjourn
afterward
amphibian
anachronism
analysis
ancestry
angle
ankle
anywhere
arrival
artificial
aspect
attire
attractive
aversion
ballot
banana
banquet
battery
belie
belief
bondage
boycott
brochure
budgeting
buffalo
calendar
campaign
capitalization
cartage
cashier
ceiling
celebration
chair
chauffeur
cheddar
civil
civilize
civilization
classification
clientele
commitment
community
conceive
counterfeit
critic
criticize
cuddle
culprit
cylinder
deceive
dehydration
delegate
delinquent
demean
despoil
develop
development
diagnosis
didactic
difficulty
disposal
disposition
droll
duplicate
durable
elicit
eliminate
elliptical
embarrass
eminent
employee
emulate
enable
encode
encyclopedia
engineer
enslave
equipping
evanescent
evidently
exclude
exhale
eon
expediency
expedite
expenditure
extension
extract
extraordinary
exude
familiar
fastidious
fiend
flamboyant
flexible
foreign
forfeit
foundation
fulfill
futurity
gaseous
gauge
genuine
graduate
grocery
grovel
guild
handkerchief
hearty
heavily
height
hosiery
hygiene
illegal
illiterate
imbecile
imitation
inaugural
incautious
index
induce
indulge
infection
inferior
inflate
informal
injury
inscription
insecure
insinuate
institution
instrument
intelligible
interior
invalid
involved
irrefutable
jeopardize
jewelry
journey
jurist
kangaroo
kerosene
khaki
kindergarten
knowledge
labeling
laboratory
laborious
library
literature
logical
lovely
lying
lyric
maintenance
mammal
maneuver
manuscript
massive
materialism
menthol
mercurial
metallic
microbe
microcosm
mileage
miniature
ministry
misfortune
mispronounce
mistreat
misunderstood
mobilize
monologue
moreover
mosquito
murmur
myth
necessarily
nickel
niece
nineteenth
ninety
ninth
nondescript
nonfiction
nucleus
obey
obligate
obnoxious
obscure
obstacle
occasion
occasionally
occur
odor
offense
oneself
opossum
opponent
optimism
organization
organize
pageant
pamphlet
parse
particular
persist
persuade
perspire
pleat
plethora
policeman
potato
prairie
predecessor
presage
pretzel
prostrate
protocol
puddle
putter
quandary
quantity
rabid
ransack
rapport
raucous
receipt
recline
recluse
recognize
recreation
recurring
rodeo
rotund
safety
salvation
saturate
savor
scholastic
scissors
scrabble
secretarial
security
serviceable
shriek
shuffle
shutter
siege
skeptical
stereo
sticky
strenuous
strident
submission
surfeit
surmount
syllable
syrup
system
tailor
tangible
tariff
tendency
therefore
thoroughbred
throughout
tornado
triangle
turmoil
unique
usurp
vacuum
vagrant
varnish
vinegar
visible
visitor
void
waiver
warranty
weather
wholly
willful
yacht
yield
zenith
zoology

8th Grade List

abbreviate
absorbent
accept
access
accessible
accessory
acoustics
accumulate
acknowledgment
adjust
aerial
affects
alien
allotment
allotted
already
altercation
amass
amendment
amorous
ancestor
anecdote
angular
anonymous
antidote
antique
antiseptic
architect
arrangement
asphalt
assignment
asterisk
attorneys
audible
aviator
bachelor
bankruptcy
barbaric
bask
battery
behavior
benefited
berserk
besieged
bicycle
blanch
brilliance
budget
bulletin
business
cachet
callus
cancellation
canvas
canvass
capricious
carburetor
cashier
catastrophe
centripetal
characteristic
chaste
cinnamon
classic
collateral
colleague
college
comedy
commerce
commercial
committee
communicate
commuter
compel
compensation
competent
consider
contiguous
corporal
council
counsel
country
creator
critique
customary
customer
daybreak
deceive
defendant
deficient
deficit
depreciation
desirable
desolate
detain
devour
diagnosis
diffidence
diminish
disappeared
disapproval
disbursement
discernible
discrepancy
disinterested
disoblige
dissociate
distress
diurnal
divine
domestic
domesticate
dominance
easier
ecstasy
effect
eject
eligible
eliminate
encouragement
encyclopedia
epic
equilibrium
erroneous
especially
exceptional
excessive
existence
exotic
expression
extremity
extricate
facsimile
familiar
fantastic
faulty
federal
feud
flexible
flout
fluorescent
folklore
forcible
fortunately
franchise
frivolous
frostbitten
further
galaxy
galling
genuine
gesture
geology
gigantic
gnawing
gorgeous
grotesque
gymnasium
handicapped
handling
handsome
haphazard
harness
hazardous
headquarters
homogenize
horrific
humidor
idiosyncrasy
impatience
impinge
incandescent
inconsolable
indelible
inept
influence
innocence
innumerable
insistent
insoluble
integrity
intensify
interrogative
invariable
irksome
irresistible
irrevocable
issuing
itemized
jewelry
judicious
juror
justifiable
landslide
legitimate
leisure
liaison
library
license
lieutenant
loophole
lunar
luncheon
magnify
malefactor
malicious
markup
mattress
mesmerize
meteor
metric
mischievous
misgiving
modern
modicum
mystery
negligence
neon
neutral
newsstand
nineteenth
nonentity
noticeable
notoriety
nuisance
numerator
nylon
obesity
oblique
obstinate
obsolete
officious
opposite
optimism
oregano
overrate
pageant
parliament
passable
paucity
penalty
perseverance
personality
picnicking
plaintiff
poignancy
poignant
potential
preceding
precipice
preoccupy
prospectus
quest
questionnaire
quixotic
radioactive
rapacious
rayon
raze
recently
reconcile
relevant
relief
repulse
revive
rhyme
rhythm
roommate
roster
sanctuary
sandwich
scarcely
schedule
schism
scholar
schooner
sedition
semester
seminary
session
shrine
sieve
signal
sincerely
soccer
solitary
subvert
statutory
terrific
thieves
tragedy
transient
transmutation
turpitude
tyranny
unacceptable
unique
unmoved
usher
utopia
vengeance
vocal
voucher
withhold
wrestle
written

Rules:

Classroom period champion for every classroom

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Classroom champs will compete for a grade level champion

-Word read once

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Grade level champions will compete for Middle School Overall Champion

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