The list below contains Spelling Bee study words for intermediates and includes 100 words, arranged from easiest to most difficult. Teachers can use this to inaugurate spelling contest among the students at school or English language academy. Moreover you can check spelling bee study words for beginners at our page by clicking here.
Spelling Bee Study Words For Intermediates
NO. WORD NATURE MEANING
1 | abase | Verb | To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. |
2 | Antic | Noun | A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action. |
3 | apiary | Noun | A place where bees are kept. |
4 | apex | Noun | The highest point, as of a mountain. |
5 | bawl | Verb | To proclaim by outcry. |
6 | beck | Verb | To give a signal to, by nod or gesture. |
7 | bedlam | Noun | Madhouse. |
8 | batten | Noun | A narrow strip of wood. |
9 | bemoan | Verb | To lament. |
10 | caprice | Noun | A whim. |
11 | cardiac | Adj | Pertaining to the heart. |
12 | cartilage | Noun | An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence. |
13 | casualty | Noun | A fatal or serious accident or disaster. |
14 | cathode | Noun | The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery. |
15 | caustic | Adj | Sarcastic and severe. |
16 | cauterize | Verb | To burn or sear as with a heated iron. |
17 | debut | Noun | A first appearance in society or on the stage. |
18 | deceit | Noun | Falsehood. |
19 | decency | Noun | Moral fitness. |
20 | deciduous | Adj | Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe. |
21 | defendant | Noun | A person against whom a suit is brought. |
22 | defensive | Adj | Carried on in resistance to aggression. |
23 | deform | Verb | To disfigure. |
24 | defray | Verb | To make payment for. |
25 | eligible | Adj | Qualified for selection. |
26 | Elizabethan | Adj | Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era. |
27 | eloquent | Adj | Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty. |
28 | elucidate | Verb | To bring out more clearly the facts concerning. |
29 | enrage | Verb | To infuriate. |
30 | ensnare | Verb | To entrap. |
31 | entangle | Verb | To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications. |
32 | earnest | Adj | Ardent in spirit and speech. |
33 | ebullient | Adj | Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling. |
34 | economize | Verb | To spend sparingly. |
35 | efface | Verb | To obliterate. |
36 | fathom | Noun | A measure of length, 6 feet. |
37 | fatuous | Adj | Idiotic, very stupid. |
38 | fealty | Noun | Loyalty. |
39 | ferocious | Adj | Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature. |
40 | fiasco | Noun | A complete or humiliating failure. |
41 | fictitious | Adj | Created or formed by the imagination. |
42 | filibuster | Noun | One who attempts to obstruct legislation. |
43 | fixture | Noun | One who or that which is expected to remain permanently. |
44 | fluctuation | Noun | . Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state. |
45 | fundamental | Adj | Basal. |
46 | genealogist | Noun | A tracer of pedigrees. |
47 | generosity | Noun | A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily. |
48 | genitive | Adj | Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like. |
49 | gestation | Noun | Pregnancy. |
50 | ghastly | Adj | Hideous. |
51 | habitable | Adj | Fit to be dwelt in. |
52 | haggard | Adj | Worn and gaunt in appearance. |
53 | harangue | Noun | A tirade. |
54 | harmonious | Adj | Concordant in sound. |
55 | heedless | Adj | Thoughtless. |
56 | hemorrhage | Noun | Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. |
57 | henchman | Noun | A servile assistant and subordinate. |
58 | heptagon | Noun | A figure having seven sides and seven angles. |
59 | herbaceous | Adj | Having the character of a herb. |
60 | herbivorous | Adj | Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals. |
61 | hesitancy | Noun | A pausing to consider. |
62 | heterogeneous | Adj | Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds. |
63 | hindrance | Noun | An obstacle. |
64 | homogeneity | Noun | Congruity of the members or elements or parts. |
65 | honorarium | Noun | A token fee or payment to a professional man for services. |
66 | humane | Adj | Compassionate. |
67 | iconoclast | Noun | An image-breaker. |
68 | idealize | Verb | To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard. |
69 | idolize | Verb | To regard with inordinate love or admiration. |
70 | ignominious | Adj | Shameful. |
71 | illicit | Adj | Unlawful. |
72 | immersion | Noun | The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid. |
73 | imminence | Noun | Impending evil or danger. |
74 | immortalize | Verb | To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great. |
75 | impalpable | Adj | Imperceptible to the touch. |
76 | imperceptible | Adj | Indiscernible. |
77 | inaudible | Adj | That cannot be heard. |
78 | incomparable | Adj | Matchless. |
79 | incompetence | Noun | General lack of capacity or fitness. |
80 | incongruous | Adj | Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion. |
81 | indulgent | Adj | Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one’s care. |
82 | jocular | Adj | Inclined to joke. |
83 | jovial | Adj | Merry. |
84 | jubilation | Noun | Exultation. |
85 | judicial | Adj | Pertaining to the administration of justice. |
86 | juggle | Verb | To play tricks of sleight of hand. |
87 | kilowatt | Noun | One thousand watts. |
88 | kinsfolk | Noun | pl. Relatives. |
89 | knickknack | Noun | A small article, more for ornament that use. |
90 | knighthood | Noun | Chivalry. |
91 | labyrinth | Noun | A maze. |
92 | laborious | Adj | Toilsome. |
93 | lactation | Noun | The secretion of milk. |
94 | manumission | Noun | Emancipation. |
95 | Martian | Adj | Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet. |
96 | pamphleteer | Verb | To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones. |
97 | philosophize | verb | To seek ultimate causes and principles. |
98 | phosphorescence | Noun | The property of emitting light. |
99 | unsophisticated | Adj | Showing inexperience. |
100 | wretchedness | Noun | Extreme misery or unhappiness. |