6th Grade Spelling Bee Words

An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work (such as a letter, a painting, a table, or a dress)

“a copy of a computer file”

A usually rounded natural elevation of land lower than a mountain

To impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a surface

Rate of motion: such as

High in stature

The time of life at which some particular qualification, power, or capacity arises or rests

“the voting age is 18”

The youngest of a group

“He is the baby of the family.”

To hit repeatedly so as to inflict pain

“Inmates were put in solitary for beating other inmates.”

The underside of something

“at the bottom of the box”

Violently separated into parts : shattered

“broken windows”

To acquire possession, ownership, or rights to the use or services of by payment especially of money : purchase

“buying stock in the company”

To determine by mathematical processes

“calculate the rate of acceleration”

A set of circumstances or conditions

“is the statement true in all three cases”

A carnivorous mammal (Felis catus) long domesticated as a pet and for catching rats and mice

“some young … cat asked me to go drinking with him”

A body of students meeting regularly to study the same subject

“Several students in the class are absent today.”

To form by putting together : fashion

“a committee composed of three representatives”

Marked by firm steadfast resolution or faithfulness : exhibiting constancy of mind or attachment

“a constant friend”

To set off in contrast : compare or appraise in respect to differences

“Contrast European and American manners.”

To make or set straight

“dress a child”

To spread or stretch forth : unbend

“extended both her arms”

To contend in battle or physical combat

“He will fight for the heavyweight title next month.”

Not costing or charging anything

“a free school”

A yellow metallic element with atomic number 79 that occurs naturally in pure form and is used especially in coins, jewelry, and electronics

An opening through something : perforation

“The coat has a hole in it.”

To spring into the air : leap; especially : to spring free from the ground or other base by the muscular action of feet and legs

A politically organized community or major territorial unit having a monarchical form of government headed by a king or queen

A considerable inland body of standing water

To guide on a way especially by going in advance

“led the officers to his hiding place”

An object used as a counter in determining a question by chance

The liturgy of the Eucharist especially in accordance with the traditional Latin rite

“Sunday masses held at three different hours”

To have in the mind as a purpose : intend

“she means to win”

A fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young

A conscious state of mind or predominant emotion : feeling

“He's been in a good mood all week.”

A community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government

“Canada is a nation with a written constitution”

Any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept

“There are two nouns in this sentence.”

Ancestry, parentage

“was of humble origin”

By the means or agency of : through

One part in a hundred

A small area of planted ground

“a vegetable plot”

The action or an instance of cutting or separating by cutting

The manner, position, or direction in which something is set

“two settings of sterling silver”

The natural, easily reversible periodic state of many living things that is marked by the absence of wakefulness and by the loss of consciousness of one's surroundings, is accompanied by a typical body posture (such as lying down with the eyes closed), the occurrence of dreaming, and changes in brain activity and physiological functioning, is made up of cycles of non-REM sleep and REM sleep, and is usually considered essential to the restoration and recovery of vital bodily and mental functions

Precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature of less than 32°F (0°C)

To stain or defile morally : corrupt

Some person : somebody

A human male offspring especially of human beings

To utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice : talk

Dart, shoot

A concretion of earthy or mineral matter:

A subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation

“guilt and punishment is the theme of the story”

Very small or diminutive : minute

A word (such as jump, happen, or exist) that functions as the main word of the predicate of a sentence and expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being or that is used with another verb as an auxiliary

The degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound; also : loudness

A cause of astonishment or admiration : marvel

“it's a wonder you weren't killed”

To gather or pile up especially little by little : amass

“accumulate a fortune”

The doing of a thing : deed

“an act of courage”

To make fit (as for a new use) often by modification

“adapt the curriculum to students' needs”

Continent of the eastern hemisphere straddling the Equator, separated from Europe by the Strait of Gibraltar, and adjoining Asia at the Sinai Peninsula area 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square kilometers)

To be the same in meaning or effect as

“acts that amount to treason”

A piece of furniture on or in which to lie and sleep

“a bed of ashes”

Radiating or reflecting light : shining, sparkling

“bright lights”

Suffering of mind : grief

“oppressed by sickness, grief, or care”

A period of 100 years

“a company that has been in business for more than a century”

A native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it

“She was an American citizen but lived most of her life abroad.”

A region of the earth having specified climatic conditions

“His physician advised moving to a warmer climate.”

A reasoned judgment : inference

“The obvious conclusion is that she was negligent.”

To indicate or name by units or groups so as to find the total number of units involved : number

“Count the pages of the manuscript.”

A reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses

The structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period

“an economy of information”

Planned or carried out with great care

“took elaborate precautions”

Something resembling a political empire

The act or process of equating

Every} person : {sx

“Everyone laughed at her joke.”

An outward sign : indication

One who acts or transacts business for another: such as

The basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children

“want to spend more time with my family”

Frozen water

As a substitute or equivalent

“was going to write but called instead”

A sweet or agreeable succession or arrangement of sounds

“whilst all the winds with melody are ringing”

Equally distant from the extremes : medial, central

“the middle house in the row”

A minute portion or point of time : instant

“a moment of dreadful suspense”

To tell (a story) in detail; also : to provide spoken commentary for (something, such as a movie or television show)

“The children enjoyed the lively manner with which she narrated her life's story.”

Based on an inherent sense of right and wrong

“natural justice”

To move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action

The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region

The number or expression resulting from the multiplication together of two or more numbers or expressions

“a product of his environment”

The indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions

To be a part not destroyed, taken, or used up

“only a few ruins remain”

To proceed or arise as a consequence, effect, or conclusion

“death resulted from the disease”

To sit and travel on the back of an animal that one directs

“rode on a wave of popularity”

A ship equipped with sails

An instrument or machine for weighing

To have, produce, or exhibit a smile

An action or process of solving a problem

The business of buying and selling or bartering commodities : commerce

To catch the foot against something so as to stumble

A particular kind, class, or group

“oranges of the seedless type”

Able or apt to vary : subject to variation or changes

“variable winds”

To pass from physical life : expire

“died at the age of 56”

A slender threadlike outgrowth of the epidermis of an animal

“won by a hair”

To cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen or be true

“hopes for a promotion”

A curving or doubling of a line so as to form a closed or partly open curve within itself through which another line can be passed or into which a hook may be hooked

“a drum loop”

A way of doing something; in math, the number that appears most often

“The mode of the numbers 2, 3, 3, 4 is 3 because it appears twice.”

Lacking material possessions

A word or expression that has a precise meaning in some uses or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or subject

“legal terms”

Vocal or musical sound of a specific quality; especially : musical sound with respect to timbre and manner of expression

“spoke in low tones”

A structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution

“We all have our crosses to bear.”

The level base of a room

“the ocean floor”

A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content

“a classic of the gothic novel genre”

Let us

A series of mountains; the distance something can reach

“The mountain range stretched across the horizon.”

Of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its people, or their language

Being or containing a virus that has been inactivated (as by chemicals) so that it is no longer infectious

“killed vaccines”

Of a dark grayish blue resembling indigo

Any of various units of mass and weight

To press against with force in order to drive or impel

“push prices to record levels”

Station

To show emotion (such as mirth, joy, or scorn) with a chuckle or explosive vocal sound

“The audience was laughing hysterically.”

Could not

A suffix meaning 'one who practices or believes in'

“A scientist is one who studies science.”

Factual information (such as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation

“the data is plentiful and easily available”

A silver-white malleable ductile magnetic heavy metallic element that readily rusts in moist air, occurs in pure form in meteorites and combined in most igneous rocks, is the most abundant element on Earth by mass, and is vital to biological processes

To remove insects from

“debug a computer program”

A class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

Advice, opinion, comment

“increased input of fertilizer increases crop yield”

Elevated in character and spirit : noble

“lofty ideals”

Any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides

A differentiated structure (such as a heart, kidney, leaf, or stem) consisting of cells and tissues and performing some specific function in an organism

“the eyes and related structures that make up the visual organs”

A prefix meaning 'across' or 'through'

“Transportation moves people across distances.”

A word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial, and in English also serving to connect and to express comment on clause content

“In "arrived early" the word "early" is an adverb.”

A figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged in ascending order of rhetorical forcefulness

“the climax of a distinguished career”

Output is the result or information produced by a machine, computer, or person after processing data.

“The computer's output showed the results of the math test.”

A direct line of descent within a group

Lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern

A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn

A dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view

A piece of soft absorbent tissue paper used especially as a handkerchief or for removing cosmetics

“a tissue of lies”

In or into the interior : inside

Acting rapidly or violently

“a drastic purgative”

To consume entirely : use up

“exhausted our funds in a week”

“costs increased by a factor of 10”

Any of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimb

“a narrow finger of land”

To be emphatic, firm, or resolute about something intended, demanded, or required

“They insist on going.”

Forming or consisting of a large mass:

A fabric or structure of cords or wires that cross at regular intervals and are knotted or secured at the crossings

“… ribbons, lace and embroidery wrought together in a most curious piece of network …”

Something that follows as a result or consequence

“a surprising outcome”

Any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or they) in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context

To relate in detail : narrate

Kind, sort

Space or a place for storing

A settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town

Break, disregard

“violate the law”

An instrument for measuring altitudes consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90 degrees with an index or vernier and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction

To locate and bring in (killed or wounded game)

The state of being suspended} : {sx

“a novel of suspense”

To convey from one person, place, or situation to another : move, shift

A recession of flame to an unwanted position (as into a blowpipe)

To strengthen by additional assistance, material, or support : make stronger or more pronounced

“reinforce levees”

Those identical ones that are they

“were themselves again after a night's rest”

A prefix meaning 'self' or 'same'

“Automatic means working by itself.”

A word meaning vs. (versus)

A prefix meaning 'large' or 'long'

“Macroscopic means large enough to see without a microscope.”

A prefix meaning very small or tiny

“A microscope helps us see micro-organisms.”

The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

A prefix meaning 'far away' or 'distant'

“Telephone lets you talk to distant people.”

Something made of two things or parts

“42 is written as 101010 in binary.”

A medial part (such as a vein or nerve)

A suffix meaning extreme fear or dislike of something

“Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.”

Absence of government

“the city's descent into anarchy”

Something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage

“discounted prices and other benefits of a museum membership”

The illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time

“The team's poor start to the season was déjà vu for its long-suffering fans.”

A succession of rulers of the same line of descent

“a dynasty that ruled China for nearly 300 years”

The great circle of the celestial sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis of the earth

“the equator of a dividing cell”

Actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character

“genuine vintage wines”

Tale, story

“a history of Japan”

Having characteristics in common : strictly comparable

“no two animal habitats are exactly similar”

Companionship or association with one's fellows : friendly or intimate intercourse : company

A usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object

“… morality is an artifact of human culture, devised to help us negotiate social relations.”

To determine or fix the value of

To supply (land, crops, etc.) with water by artificial means

“irrigating the cotton plants”

Angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as

A great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the poles

Undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person

“Saudi Arabia is governed by a monarchy.”

Characteristic of only one person, group, or thing : distinctive

“… a drowsy fervour of manner and tone which was quite peculiar to her.”

A preferential rating

The act of rebutting especially in a legal suit

A personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

A government in which the power belongs to a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by the leaders and representatives elected by those citizens to govern according to law

The science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war

A word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else

“The word red in "the red car" is an adjective.”

Insistent and positive affirming, maintaining, or defending (as of a right or attribute)

“an assertion of ownership/innocence”

Neither specious nor counterfeit : genuine

“has become a bona fide celebrity”

A system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

Congruous

“… establish incentives and rewards congruent with professional standing.”

The quality of spatial extension : magnitude, size

“… the town's modest dimensions and leisurely ways …”

Having wide or considerable extent

“extensive reading”

The fact or condition of occurring frequently

“the frequency of automobile accidents”

Angular distance measured on a great circle of reference from the intersection of the adopted zero meridian with this reference circle to the similar intersection of the meridian passing through the object

Something that is narrated : story, account

“He is writing a detailed narrative of his life on the island.”

One that processes

“scrap processor”

Of, relating to, or marked by literary or artistic realism : accurately representing what is natural or real : convincingly rendered to appear natural

“a realistic novel”

The use of reason; especially : the drawing of inferences or conclusions through the use of reason

Any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

“If modern socialism was born in 19th-century Europe, it was subsequently shaped by, and adapted to, a whole range of societies.”

Not fully worked out or developed

“tentative plans”

Government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

An act, process, or instance of representing in a medium (such as words) : utterance

“freedom of expression”

A half of the celestial sphere as divided into two halves by the horizon , the celestial equator, or the ecliptic

“a hemisphere of life heretofore unknown to us”

The act or process or an instance of persuading

An act of predicting

Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole : balance, symmetry

The existing state of affairs

“seeks to preserve the status quo”

A person or thing that takes the place or function of another

An uninflected linguistic form that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words

“Some common conjunctions are "and," "but," and "although."”

A conclusion derived through logic : inference

“… we can deduce … many consequences each of which can be tested by experiment.”

A position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated : standpoint

A suffix meaning 'the study of' something

“Biology is the study of living things.”

A comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect

A branch of morphology that deals with the structure of organisms

“the anatomy of birds”

Following rules and doing what you are told

“The obedient dog sat when his owner told him to.”

A complex structure of interdependent and subordinate elements whose relations and properties are largely determined by their function in the whole

“a multicellular organism”

A combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness); broadly : something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements

A procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation

Exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality

“a ferocious predator”

Not aware of what is happening around you

“He was oblivious to the noise around him while reading.”

Government by the few

“The corporation is ruled by oligarchy.”

Artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or states

When everyone agrees completely

“The class vote was unanimous - everyone chose pizza for lunch.”

One that contends with or opposes another : adversary, opponent

“political antagonists”

Marked by uninterrupted extension in space, time, or sequence

“The batteries provide enough power for up to five hours of continuous use.”

All that exists

“you mean everything to me”

To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth : overstate

“a friend exaggerates a man's virtues”

An assumption or concession made for the sake of argument

To treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner

“manipulate a pencil”

The act or an instance of repeating} or being {a_link

The art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations

With the order changed : with the relations reversed : conversely

The science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products

“cleared the land to use it for agriculture”

Especially suitable or compatible :

“an appropriate response”

The science or art of making maps

A momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin

“Deforestation and erosion can lead to an ecological catastrophe.”

Any of the factors of a product considered in relation to a specific factor

“coefficient of expansion of a metal”

A function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication

An active participant in an event

The office of dictator

“people suffering under his dictatorship”

The act or process of distributing

“the distribution of leaflets”

An ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as

A word meaning organ system

An indication of what is to come

“On this merry Christmas evening, however, no fears or dim foreshadowings of any coming event clouded our hearts or faces.”

A word meaning i.e. (that is)

A word meaning anti- (against)

A word meaning inter- (between)

The quality of being unequal or uneven: such as

The quality or power of inspiring belief

“an account lacking in credibility”

The chance that something will happen

“The probability of rain today is 70 percent.”

Having or consisting of a single cell

“unicellular microorganisms”

Of, relating to, or arranged in or according to the order of time

“chronological tables of American history”

Having, made up of, or involving more than one and usually many cells especially of living matter

A nonnegative number equal in numerical value to a given real number

A triangle where all three angles are less than 90 degrees

“An acute triangle has all sharp angles.”

An opposing argument

“… careful consideration of each of the arguments made by the appellant, and of the counter-arguments advanced by the appellees …”

A word meaning etc. (et cetera)

A word meaning e.g. (for example)

A word meaning et al. (and others)

The bodily system concerned with the ingestion, digestion, and absorption of food and the discharge of residual wastes and consisting of the digestive tract and accessory glands (such as the salivary glands and the pancreas) that secrete digestive enzymes

A system of organs functioning in respiration and in humans consisting especially of the nose, nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs : respiratory tract

Being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord

“The decision was consonant with the company's usual practice.”

Degree of hotness or coldness measured on a definite scale

“running a temperature”

Pictures produced by an imaging system

The quality or state of being quiet : tranquility

A characteristic manner or style of expression : diction

“an adverbial phrase”

Wholly, completely

“not quite finished”

Prior to a specified or implied past, present, or future time : by this time : previously

“He had already left when I called.”

In spite of the fact that : even though

“They are good friends, although they don't see each other very often.”

A corner whether constituting a projecting part or a partially enclosed space

“They sheltered in an angle of the building.”

To form by ordering and uniting materials by gradual means into a composite whole : construct

“birds building a nest”

A form of government in which the people elect representatives to make decisions, policies, laws, etc. according to law

“Free and fair elections are a hallmark of American democracy.”

The officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency

“The government was slow to react to the crisis.”

To put in order : arrange

“The books are ordered alphabetically by author.”

Sufficient for a specific need or requirement

“adequate time”

Not distant : nearby

“the city and adjacent suburbs”

To study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by analysis

“chemically analyze a specimen”

To give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to

“We don't anticipate any problems during the construction.”

To be or come in sight

“when the sun appears on the horizon”

Any of a family (Ursidae of the order Carnivora) of large heavy mammals of America and Eurasia that have long shaggy hair, rudimentary tails, and plantigrade feet and feed largely on fruit, plant matter, and insects as well as on flesh

“a tall, friendly bear of a man”

A relatively high level of cultural and technological development

“the impact of European civilization on the lands they colonized”

To ask for especially as a right

“claimed the inheritance”

A group of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence

“The sentence "When it rained they went inside" consists of two clauses: "when it rained" and "they went inside."”

To make or form by combining or arranging parts or elements : build

“construct a bridge”

To give or supply (something, such as money or time) as a part or share

“contribute money to a cause”

The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group

“a corporate culture focused on the bottom line”

To make known formally, officially, or explicitly

“publicly declared her opposition to the plan”

Being the one and the other of two : each

“flowers blooming on either side of the walk”

To inspire with courage, spirit, or hope : hearten

“she was encouraged to continue by her early success”

In a manner or measure or to a degree or number that strictly conforms to a fact or condition

“it's exactly 3 o'clock”

A numerical representation (such as ³/₄, ⁵/₈, or 3.234) indicating the quotient of two numbers

“a fraction closer”

To associate with, be in, or resort to often or habitually

“a bar frequented by sports fans”

A diagram (such as a series of one or more points, lines, line segments, curves, or areas) that represents the variation of a variable in comparison with that of one or more other variables

A procedure or process for attaining an object: such as

An outer side or surface

“the crowd numbered 10,000 at the outside”

Being within the limits of ability, capacity, or realization

“a possible but difficult task”

To speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment

An administrative area, division, or district; especially : the basic administrative unit for local government in Scotland

The act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones

“made a resolution to mend my ways”

To find a solution, explanation, or answer for

“solve a problem”

An attack made without warning

Being the only one : sole

“his unique concern was his own comfort”

A way of thinking about something; an opinion

“From my viewpoint, we should start the project early.”