8th Grade Spelling Bee Study Words
2017-2018 8th Grade Spelling List
*This list includes 50 challenging eighth-grade words and, to extend learning, 50 challenging ninth grade words. If you learn the spellings and meanings of these 100 words, you will be well prepared for an eighth-grade classroom bee. If you would like to be well prepared for a school spelling bee, ask your teacher for the 450-word School Spelling Bee Study List.
| proviso | premonition | Seminole | cupolas | connubial |
| dragoons | memorandum | hallucinations | grotesque | unpropitious |
| gargoyle | pastrami | endeavor* or endeavour | pulmonary | caravel |
| anecdote | germinate | labyrinthine | frontispiece | millinery |
| brigands | parenthetical | excruciating | succulent | coppice |
| mandible | crematoria | lichenous | clandestine | pecuniary |
| crampon | massacres | chandeliers | pestiferous | expatiated |
| Sherpa | petulance | uncoquettish | requisites | supercilious |
| malign | facilitate | tempestuous | pitons | formaldehyde |
| boroughs | extenuation | Pyrenees | incongruous | vicissitudes |
| monomania | incarcerated | interpolated | variegated | oologist |
| taxidermy | appendectomy | cypress | lassitude | auspices |
| piteously | subterranean | disquisition | avocations | panegyric |
| strenuous | financiers | translucent | raillery | cabochon |
| intimation | treacherous | annexation | sanguine | verdigris |
| conundrum | orthopedic* or orthopaedic | expeditionaries | tête–à–tête | rhododendron |
| atrocity | sphinx | bilious | mitochondria | Kilimanjaro |
| voluminous | lama | interstices | putrefaction | coquelicot |
| propaganda | celerity | hermetically | concierge | ichthyosaurus |
| conspicuous | acacias | mythos | gauss | cicerone |