3rd Grade Words 1

BEGINNING WORDS

abide
ability
abort
abroad
absence
absolute
abuse
abutting
accept
accident
account
accusation
accustomed
achieve
achievement
acid
act
active
actor
add
admire
admit
adopt
adorable
adult
afford
afraid
afterwards
again
agreeable
aim
album
alien
allies
almond
alter
alternate
altogether
amazed
ambition
amplify
anchorite
animal
appear
appliance
appoint
approach
arctic
areas
arena
argue
arithmetic
ark
armor
around
arrange
arrest
arrival
arrow
artful
article
ashamed
asleep
assign
assist
assume
assure
astronaut
attempt
attention
attitude
attorney
attract
audience
authentic
avenue
avid
awake
awaken
award
aware
awesome
baboon
background
bacon
baggy
ballot
bandage
banish
bar
barb
bare
bared
barely
barn
barrel
base
baskets
batch
baton
batter
battle
bay
beachhead
beacon
beak
beam
bear
beast
beautiful
behold
belief
believe
benchmark
bend
benefit
bias
biscuit
blank
bookkeeper
borrowed
bridge
brief
bristles
broker
brush
brutal
building
bulletin
bungalow
butterflies
butterscotch
cab
cable
cactus
cancel
candle
canter
canvas
capitol
captain
captive
cardboard
carnage
casual
caught
cause
caution
ceiling
celebrate
certain
certified
championship
changeable
character
charity
chef
chief
choke
circuit
classmate
climax
closest
clothe
clothesline
cocoon
coffee
colicky
collapse
college
comedy
command
commendable
company
compared
compile
complaining
compute
conceit
confidence
confident
confine
consign
constantly
continue
continued
coroner
corporal
cosmic
creations
credit
cronies
cruise
crust
curious
currency
cursive
cuspate
custard
danger
dangerous
daughter
deerstalker
definitely
defrost
delegate
delicate
delicious
demolish
denim
derelict
descend
description
design
designs
desirable
desperate
detached
deter
determine
device
devise
diamond
diet
different
dingo
direction
distinct
doubt
dozen
dragon
drench
drink
dwarf
dyed
earthworm
easy
elastic
electricity
enclose
endangered
endless
enduring
engineer
enjoy
entire
equipped
error
especially
establish
eternal
exactly
exaggerate
excitement
exhibit
exist
expansive
explosion
expose
express
expression
famous
faraway
farmhouse
farthest
favorable
favorite
female
festival
fever
fiddlehead
flashlight
flipped
floating
flower
flutter
followed
footcandles
force
forehead
fossil
frantic
freeze
freezer
freight
frightening
frolicking
frowned
funnel
furrow
gale
gander
generate
generation
genius
giant
glacier
glaze
glittered
gopher
gourmet
grain
gravity
gripped
ground
gruesome
guilt
guitar
haggard
hamburger
happy
harassment
hard
harsh
heat
hefty
helix
helmet
helpless
heroes
hinge
hoarseness
hockey
hogshead
hopscotch
house
huddle
hundred
ignite
illegal
illustrate
imaginary
imagined
imitate
improper
improve
improved
impulse
infer
inhibit
inquisitive
insecure
inspect
inspire
instructor
interrupt
interview
invented
invention
iron
irritable
irritate
island
isle
jaguar
joey
junction
knapsack
knifelike
know
known
knuckles
ladder
landscape
language
larger
latched
late
later
leased
leather
length
leopard
likelihood
likely
limb
link
livelihood
loveliness
lurking
lynch
machinery
mackerel
maintain
mammer
manslaughter
margarine
marinade
marrow
marsh
mass
mattresses
measuring
mediate
medicine
mention
message
mile
model
modern
modification
moist
moisture
monkeys
moody
morale
morning
motion
mountain
mouthful
museum
myth
nations
navigation
nectar
neither
nervous
newspaper
newsstand
nickel
nimble
ninety
nitrogen
normal
noticeable
noticed
nowhere
obedience
obese
oblong
obtuse
occasion
octagon
official
often
omission
opportune
orchestra
ordinary
ornament
ounce
oxford
pale
panicky
parlance
parody
partner
passenger
passport
pastime
pathetic
pavement
peaceable
peaceful
peculiar
peered
petals
petite
picnicker
pigeon
pigment
playful
pleasant
poems
polite
porkpie
position
possible
potatoes
potion
potsherd
poultry
practice
prediction
prepare
pressure
prism
privilege
professional
proffer
pronounce
proud
pursuit
puzzling
pyramid
quickness
quotable
raccoon
raisin
rampage
random
rapidly
rascal
raspberry
rattlesnake
realize
recede
receive
recollect
recommend
reign
released
relics
relieve
religious
remember
renounce
reopen
rescue
research
retired
retold
roommate
rural
ruthless
salmon
sarcasm
scotch
seasonable
seize
settlers
severely
sheer
shepherd
shindig
shuttle
shy
siege
simile
skeleton
slow
sniffed
spinning
spread
spreading
sprout
stagehand
stanch
stand
stared
steamboat
strike
strip
strive
struggled
subtraction
succeed
suddenly
supernatural
supersonic
suspense
symphony
tango
tank
taut
teammates
temperature
terrified
terse
thieves
thorough
through
thumbscrew
thunderstorm
tiny
toad
tomorrow
tornado
tossing
totem
touches
trail
train
transferred
troop
trooper
troublemaker
turntable
unable
unusual
usually
valentine
variety
varsity
vast
vegetable
vicious
videotape
visit
visitor
warm
weather
wedding
week
weird
whiskers
wolves
wriggle
yank
yard
yellow
yoke

INTERMEDIATE WORDS

abandon
ablution
absentminded
abstract
absurd
abundant
academe
accelerate
accent
acceptable
access
accessible
accompanied
accuracy
accurate
acquaintance
acrobat
across
actually
additional
adequate
adjunct
adjust
administer
administrator
adorned
advantage
adventure
advertisement
aerial
affect
aggressive
aglet
agonize
aleatory
alliance
ambassador
ambulance
amendment
amphibian
ample
amusement
ancestry
ancient
anecdote
announce
announcement
annual
apartment
ape
apologetic
apologize
apology
appall
apparent
appeal
appreciate
appreciation
architecture
arduous
aromatic
artificial
artisan
artist
ascend
askance
assess
association
assumption
athletes
auction
author
autograph
automatic
autumn
average
awe
axle
bachelor
bacteria
bail
balance
baloney
banana
bankruptcy
barren
barricade
barrier
bashful
bawl
beauteous
beckon
behavior
belch
belittle
bellow
benighted
besiege
bibelot
birthplace
blotch
bootlegger
brandishing
breathe
bureau
burglaries
buried
businessman
calorie
campaign
candidacy
capital
captivate
careen
career
carnivore
cassette
catapult
cathedral
cautious
cavalier
cemetery
centuries
ceremonies
chancellor
chocolate
chronicle
churn
classification
climactic
column
commandant
commemorate
commitment
committee
comparative
conciliatory
confectioneries
conscience
consciousness
consequence
consolidate
consummation
contemptible
continually
convenience
cope
correlation
correspondence
corroborate
corrugated
countenance
courageous
courtesies
cresset
criticism
crochet
crystallized
cudgel
curiosity
cusp
cylinder
deceive
defect
delicacy
deranged
dictionary
dilemma
discrimination
disillusion
disintegration
dispensable
divagate
driest
easel
efficiency
eject
eligible
eliminate
elude
emphatically
endeavor
enormous
entertainment
examine
excavator
exceptional
excise
exorbitant
experiment
exude
fascinate
fathom
fatigue
feudal
fleece
flotsam
foreboding
foreign
fragrance
gene
geography
giraffe
grammar
grandeur
greyhound
grievance
grievous
guarantee
guitarist
harrowing
haughtily
haze
heady
health
hindrance
hoist
humorous
hygiene
icicle
iciness
imbecile
immediately
immigrant
improvement
incidental
indictment
inevitable
innocence
intellectual
interference
intermediate
intimidate
inured
investigate
irresistible
jejune
knoll
knowledge
laboratory
lacquer
lassitude
leisure
lesion
lethargic
licit
lionize
lodestone
lynx
maleficent
mania
masterpiece
matinee
mechanism
medallion
mediocre
meditate
menthol
meteor
millinery
minimum
misdemeanor
misspell
modicum
muscle
nausea
necessary
negligence
neighbor
neutron
oasis
obliquely
oblivious
obstacle
occurrence
odyssey
open
opportunity
ordinance
ordnance
pamphlet
paragon
parched
partisan
passionately
patronize
permanence
permissible
perpetual
perseverance
pertinacity
perverse
philology
phonics
physician
pictorial
pithy
playwright
pliable
porpoise
possessions
prehistoric
premonition
prevalence
principal
principle
procedure
prominence
pronunciation
prowess
pumice
punctual
pungent
quantity
quarrel
rapport
raze
receipt
refrigerator
regrettable
rehearsal
relationship
remarkable
repetition
resilience
responsibility
ritual
rousing
rummage
salience
sandwich
scarce
scissors
scorer
senescence
sensitive
separately
serendipity
shellacker
sheriff
shriek
significance
sincerely
sixsome
skewer
sluice
solemn
sophomore
souvenirs
stagnation
suggestion
supernova
surmise
surrounded
suspended
sympathy
syringe
tantivy
technical
temperament
tendency
tetanus
traitor
transience
transmissible
tremendous
twelfth
unbelievable
underrated
undoubtedly
ungrammatical
univalve
vehicles
vertigo
violently
voluminous
watts
weightlifting
westerlies
whelp
whet
yacht

ADVANCED WORDS

aardvark
abecedarian
academic
accipitrine
accumulate
acedia
acicular
acquiesce
acquisitive
adjoin
advantageously
adventurous
aficionado
aforementioned
aggravate
airborne
alabaster
alliteration
analysis
annunciator
antiseptic
anxiety
anxious
apprehension
approximately
archaeologist
archaeology
arthritis
asbestos
asperity
assay
auditorium
autochthon
autumnal
auxiliary
aviator
awkward
azalea
baccalaureate
bagatelle
balletic
bathysiderodromophobia
battalion
benediction
benefactor
beneficent
beneficiary
benign
bequeath
bequest
berate
bibliography
bibliopole
bissextile
boustrophedon
brigand
brusquely
cachinnate
cafeteria
cajolery
carom
catarrhal
causerie
cavalcade
chamois
chimpanzee
chrestomathy
circumference
circumlocution
commensurate
congeries
consequential
consistency
constituent
constraint
contemplate
convoluted
denizen
dentifrice
despot
disparity
dissonant
dreadnought
dyslexia
eczema
efficaciously
emphasis
encouragingly
enunciator
espressos
excelsior
extermination
facetiously
floccinaucinihilipilification
genuine
glissade
gneiss
handkerchief
hereditary
hideous
hippopotamus
hosiery
idiosyncrasies
ignorant
iguana
immigration
imprecations
inefficient
ineluctably
inertia
infamy
inflammable
infuriated
injunction
innuendoes
insomnia
insouciant
intelligent
inveigle
irascible
iridescence
kaleidoscope
kiosk
lagniappe
lamentation
legerdemain
lieutenancy
lozenge
lunacy
maneuver
masquerade
maxillae
mayonnaise
milieu
millionaire
mischievous
mosquitoes
nebulous
nostalgia
nuisance
obstreperous
paleontologist
panegyric
parallax
paranoia
perquisites
phraseology
phylum
pierce
pneumonia
portmanteau
posthumously
postprandial
presumptuous
proprietor
prosaical
psittacine
psychology
putatively
queue
quiche
quiescent
raucous
reconnaissance
relinquished
restaurant
restlessly
retaliate
rhubarb
rhythm
ricochet
rotisserie
saccharine
sangfroid
scrupulous
silhouette
solecism
solipsism
somnambulance
spaghetti
stethoscope
subterfuge
subtleties
suffragette
surreptitiously
swiftness
synonym
turquoise
typhoid
unique
veterinarian
vicissitudes
vigorous
xenophobia
xylophone

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