Year 8 spellings

Year 8 – Spellings that you should know!

It is important that you work continually to improve your spelling. Reading widely from the Key Stage 3 Reading List and beyond will help with this but you should also learn the spellings of the words listed below.

You will find the words listed in groups of ten.

Learn one set at a time and ask a friend or family member to help you!

1. Affable 2. Ambiguous 3. Ambivalent 4. Amicable 5. Amoral 6. Analogous 7. Anecdote 8. Animosity 9. Anticipation 10. Apprehension

1. Baleful 2. Barbaric 3. Barren 4. Beguile 5. Bemused 6. Benevolent 7. Bias 8. Boisterous 9. Cacophony 10. Cajole

1. Camaraderie 2. Campaign 3. Catalyst 4. Closure 5. Colloquialism 6. Commemorate 7. Commend 8. Communication 9. Conscience 10. Conscious

1. Dangerous 2. Debatable 3. Debilitate 4. Deceive 5. Deficiency 6. Definitely 7. Deliberately 8. Demeanour 9. Dependent 10. Discussion

1. Eloquence 2. Eminence 3. Emotive 4. Empathise 5. Emphasis 6. Empower 7. Enigmatic 8. Epitome 9. Equivalent 10. Especially

1. Faรงade 2. Facilitate 3. Fascination 4. Fatigue 5. Foreshadowing 6. Genial 7. Government 8. Grievance 9. Guardian 10. Guile

1. Halcyon 2. Hapless 3. Hedonism 4. Homogenous 5. Humorous 6. Hypocrisy 7. Illuminate 8. Incidentally 9. Irrelevant 10. Immediately

1. Jovial 2. Justification 3. Juvenile 4. Juxtaposition 5. Lamentable 6. Languish 7. Lethargy 8. Liaison 9. Lineage 10. Livelihood

1. Maintenance 2. Malevolent 3. Manoeuvre 4. Marginalise 5. Masquerade 6. Medicine 7. Mediterranean 8. Melancholy 9. Memorable 10. Monetary

1. NaĂŻve 2. Narrative 3. Nauseous 4. Nebulous 5. Negotiable 6. Numerous 7. Obligatory 8. Oblivious 9. Omission 10. Onomatopoeia

1. Panic 2. Paradox 3. Paramount 4. Parliament 5. Parody 6. Paternal 7. Peculiar 8. Pejorative 9. Perceive 10. Prioritise

1. Querulous 2. Quizzical 3. Random 4. Rapacious 5. Rapport 6. Rational 7. Recipient 8. Recognition 9. Recommendation 10. Reminisce

1. Satirical 2. Sceptical 3. Segregation 4. Sensory 5. Silhouette 6. Simultaneous 7. Sincerely 8. Sinister 9. Solemn 10. Soliloquy

1. Sophisticated 2. Specifically 3. Spontaneous 4. Statistic 5. Subconscious 6. Subjective 7. Subordinate 8. Subtle/ subtly/ subtlety 9. Superiority 10. Supremacy

1. Taciturn 2. Tactile 3. Tedious 4. Temperament 5. Tentative 6. Terminology 7. Tortuous 8. Tragedy 9. Tranquil 10. Treacherous

1. Ubiquitous 2. Ulterior 3. Undoubtedly 4. Unequivocal 5. Unexpectedly 6. Unnatural 7. Unquestionable 8. Utterly 9. Valour 10. Vehement

1. Vengeance 2. Vilification 3. Virtuous 4. Vociferous 5. Wayward 6. Withhold 7. Wrath 8. Zeal 9. Zeitgeist 10. Zoomorphism