Indiana Academic Spell Bowl
2017 Junior Division Word List
1. a cappella
2. abasing
3. abdominal
4. abide
5. abnegation
6. aborigines
7. abridging
8. absentee
9. absorbing
10. abstruse
11. abyss
12. accentuate
13. accidentally
14. accompanist
15. accountant
16. accusative
17. achieve
18. acknowledging
19. acquisitor
20. actinic
21. actuation
22. adaptable
23. adhesion
24. adjudication
25. administration
26. admitted
27. adoring
28. adulteration
29. adventitious
30. advice
31. advise
32. aerialist
33. affected
34. affliction
35. afresh
36. agency
37. aggressive
38. agonize
39. aid
40. aide
41. air pump
42. airspeed
43. Albania
44. alcoholism
45. algorithmic
46. A-line
47. Allegheny Mountains
48. alley
49. allotted
50. alma mater
51. altar
52. alter
53. altruism
54. amateurish
55. ambiguous
56. ambushment
57. Americanism
58. amity
59. amorphous
60. amplified
61. anachronism
62. analyze
63. ancestral
64. anent
65. anglicization
66. aniline
67. ankle
68. annotate
69. annulled
70. anonymously
71. anteater
72. anthracite
73. anticlerical
74. antipodes
75. antitoxic
76. anywhere
77. aphasia
78. aplenty
79. apology
80. apotheosis
81. appealer
82. appendectomy
83. applicable
84. apportionment
85. apprehend
86. appropriating
87. apron
88. arabesque
89. arbor
90. archangel
91. archives
92. Argonaut
93. aristocracy
94. armament
95. aromatic
96. array
97. arroyo
98. article
99. artiste
100. ascertainment
101. Asiatic
102. asphyxiation
103. assassinator
104. assenter
105. assignability
106. assume
107. astigmatic
108. astringent
109. asymmetrically
110. athwart
111. atonally
112. attainability
113. attestation
114. attractor
115. auctioneer
116. aught
117. auspice
118. authoritative
119. automatically
120. availability
121. aversion
122. avoirdupois
123. awesome
124. Azores
125. Babylonian
126. backdoor
127. backstage
128. bacteriophage
129. baggy
130. baklava
131. baling
132. ballroom
133. banana
134. bandwagon
135. bankruptcy
136. baptize
137. barberry
138. barley
139. barouche
140. barrow
141. basely
142. Basque
143. bateau
144. baton
145. battleship
146. beachhead
147. bearish
148. Beaufort scale
149. become
150. bedlam
151. beefy
152. befogged
153. beginning
154. beheaded
155. belay
156. belladonna
157. belted
158. benedictory
159. benign
160. bereaving
161. besides
162. bestowal
163. betrothed
164. bewildering
165. biblical
166. bifurcation
167. bilingual
168. billionth
169. binomially
170. bipartition
171. bisection
172. bitterroot
173. black sheep
174. blackmail
175. blandishment
176. blatant
177. blemish
178. blissful
179. blocky
180. bloodsucker
181. blow-dryer
182. blueberry
183. blur
184. boardinghouse
185. bobtail
186. Boise
187. bombardment
188. bonded
189. boodle
190. bookshop
191. borate
192. borough
193. bothersome
194. bouillon
195. boutonniere
196. boxcar
197. bragger
198. brambly
199. bravo
200. breakage
201. breather
202. breviary
203. bridewell
204. brightly
205. brinkmanship
206. Brittany
207. brochure
208. bronchoscope
209. browsing
210. brutishly
211. buckskin
212. Buenos Aires
213. bulbous
214. bullfrog
215. bumpkin
216. bunny
217. burgher
218. Burmese
219. bury
220. bustard
221. butterfly
222. bystander
223. caboose
224. cadence
225. cagier
226. calcareous
227. calender
228. calligrapher
229. calumniation
230. camellia
231. cancellation
232. candlepower
233. cannily
234. cant
235. canvas
236. capitalistic
237. capsular
238. capuchin
239. carbonate
240. cardinalate
241. carfare
242. carnation
243. carpenter
244. cartel
245. casein
246. cast off
247. cast-off
248. casually
249. cataleptic
250. catamount
251. catechumen
252. Catholic
253. caught
254. cautionary
255. ceased
256. celibacy
257. censer
258. censor
259. centerpiece
260. ceramist
261. certification
262. chagrin
263. chamber
264. changed
265. characterization
266. charter
267. chatelaine
268. checkered
269. Cheyenne
270. chigger
271. chime
272. chiming
273. chirography
274. chlorine
275. choose
276. chortling
277. chose
278. chromosome
279. chubby
280. chyme
281. cinema
282. circulation
283. circus
284. citronella
285. claimer
286. clapper
287. classicist
288. cleansed
289. clerical
290. climbing
291. clockwise
292. cloudburst
293. coagulate
294. coax
295. cockerel
296. codeine
297. coexistence
298. cogwheel
299. coinciding
300. collapse
301. college
302. colloquy
303. colonnade
304. Columbus
305. comedy
306. commandant
307. commendable
308. commiserate
309. commodore
310. communism
311. company
312. compelling
313. compiling
314. compliant
315. composer
316. compressor
317. concatenation
318. concentrating
319. concierge
320. concord
321. condemnation
322. condone
323. confederation
324. confidence
325. confiscatory
326. confuse
327. congratulate
328. conically
329. connect
330. conquering
331. consecutive
332. consideration
333. consomme
334. constellation
335. construct
336. consummate
337. contemplation
338. context
339. continuous
340. contradict
341. contritely
342. contumely
343. conventionality
344. convey
345. convulsion
346. coordination
347. coquet
348. cormorant
349. coronet
350. correlation
351. corrugate
352. cosecant
353. coterie
354. counteract
355. coup de grâce
356. courtroom
357. cowcatcher
358. crack down
359. crackdown
360. crankcase
361. crayon
362. credential
363. Creole
364. cricket
365. crippling
366. crocodilian
367. crosscut
368. crucifixion
369. crumpling
370. cubicle
371. culprit
372. cunningly
373. curdling
374. currant
375. current
376. curvature
377. custom-made
378. cyanotic
379. cylindrical
380. daddy
381. dalmatian
382. danced
383. Dante
384. dateless
385. dazed
386. deafness
387. debating
388. decadence
389. decaying
390. decibel
391. declarative
392. decontamination
393. dedicatory
394. defamed
395. defensive
396. defined
397. defrayal
398. deified
399. deleted
400. delineate
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401. delusion
402. dementia
403. demolition
404. demotion
405. denomination
406. dentulous
407. dependence
408. deportee
409. deprecatory
410. deputy
411. dermatology
412. descrying
413. designation
414. despising
415. destructible
416. deterioration
417. detour
418. develop
419. devotion
420. diacritical
421. diameter
422. diatonic
423. didactic
424. diffident
425. dignity
426. diligent
427. dinette
428. diplomacy
429. dirigible
430. disappointment
431. disbelieve
432. discoid
433. discourage
434. discriminate
435. disenchant
436. disharmony
437. disintegration
438. dismember
439. disparagingly
440. disperse
441. disputable
442. dissect
443. dissipate
444. distance
445. distrust
446. divan
447. divider
448. dizziness
449. dodging
450. doling
451. dominate
452. doodle
453. dory
454. doublet
455. dowdiness
456. dozing
457. drama
458. drayage
459. drier
460. drooping
461. drudging
462. drupelet
463. dubbing
464. duffer
465. dumpy
466. duplicator
467. Dutch oven
468. dynamic
469. e pluribus unum
470. earshot
471. easily
472. ebb tide
473. echoed
474. economist
475. Edam
476. edified
477. educe
478. efferent
479. effluvium
480. egoistic
481. eighteen
482. elaborating
483. elderberry
484. electrify
485. electrophorus
486. elementarily
487. eliding
488. elocutionary
489. elusive
490. embargo
491. embezzlement
492. embrace
493. emerald
494. emirate
495. empathy
496. emporium
497. emulsify
498. encasing
499. encompass
500. endanger
501. endorsing
502. enfeeble
503. engineering
504. enjoin
505. ennui
506. enslave
507. enthralling
508. entomology
509. entrepreneur
510. envious
511. ephemeral
512. epiglottis
513. episodically
514. epsilon
515. equestrian
516. equipping
517. erasure
518. erosion
519. eructation
520. escapee
521. esoteric
522. essence
523. estrogen
524. ethic
525. Etruscan
526. eulogium
527. euphuistic
528. evaluation
529. evening
530. everyone
531. evoke
532. exaggerate
533. excel
534. exchanging
535. excommunicate
536. excursive
537. exemplary
538. exhibition
539. exocrine
540. expansive
541. expediting
542. expiable
543. explode
544. expose
545. expropriate
546. extensibility
547. extinct
548. extractable
549. extravaganza
550. exudation
551. Ezekiel
552. facilitate
553. Fahrenheit
554. faker
555. falsely
556. famine
557. fantail
558. farmhouse
559. fascination
560. fatherhood
561. faucet
562. faze
563. febrile
564. feebly
565. fellowship
566. fending
567. ferryboat
568. festive
569. feudalism
570. fibril
571. fiddling
572. fiftieth
573. filet
574. filter
575. filterable
576. financier
577. finical
578. fireproof
579. fisherman
580. fitchet
581. fjord
582. flagpole
583. flamenco
584. flare-up
585. flauntingly
586. fleetly
587. flightiness
588. flipping
589. floodgate
590. floricultural
591. floundering
592. fluffier
593. fluorine
594. flyer
595. fodder
596. foliation
597. fondly
598. footing
599. forbidding
600. foreclosure
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601. foreigner
602. forfeit
603. formal
604. Formosa
605. forthright
606. forum
607. fountainhead
608. fraction
609. framework
610. fraternity
611. freedom
612. frenetic
613. friable
614. frightful
615. frolic
616. froufrou
617. fruitiness
618. fudge
619. fulsome
620. fundamentalist
621. furious
622. furthermore
623. futurism
624. gadfly
625. gait
626. galley
627. galvanometer
628. gaminess
629. gangster
630. garden
631. garnishee
632. gasification
633. gathered
634. gauzy
635. Gehenna
636. gemma
637. generalship
638. Geneva
639. gentleman
640. geologist
641. geranium
642. gerrymander
643. getting
644. gibber
645. giraffe
646. glacial
647. glandular
648. glazier
649. glisten
650. gloomy
651. glover
652. glycerin
653. goatskin
654. godlike
655. goldsmith
656. good-natured
657. gorilla
658. gourmand
659. gradation
660. gramophone
661. granny
662. grapnel
663. gratitude
664. gray market
665. greedy
666. greyhound
667. grimy
668. gritty
669. grooving
670. groundwork
671. grudgingly
672. guarantor
673. guffaw
674. guitar
675. gunfire
676. gusher
677. guyot
678. gyroscope
679. habituation
680. haggis
681. halcyon
682. hallmark
683. hammer
684. handiwork
685. hanger
686. happy-go-lucky
687. hardship
688. harmonic
689. harridan
690. hasty
691. Havana
692. haystack
693. headstrong
694. heartburn
695. heaven
696. hectare
697. Heidelberg
698. helix
699. hemizygous
700. henry
701. herculean
702. heritable
703. heterodoxy
704. Hiawatha
705. hierarchy
706. hijack
707. hindsight
708. histological
709. hoarse
710. hoggish
711. holster
712. homiletics
713. Honduras
714. honorary
715. Hopi
716. horology
717. horseradish
718. hostage
719. houseboat
720. hubbub
721. human
722. humidification
723. humorous
724. huntsman
725. husband
726. hydrangea
727. hydrogenation
728. hydrosphere
729. hygroscopic
730. hyphenation
731. hypodermically
732. Iberia
733. iconoclast
734. ideogram
735. idolatry
736. ignorance
737. illegitimate
738. illumine
739. imagination
740. imbrue
741. immature
742. imminent
743. immortalization
744. impair
745. impassive
746. impeding
747. imperforate
748. impersonation
749. implacability
750. importance
751. improbable
752. impudent
753. in medias res
754. inadvertent
755. inaugurate
756. incapacity
757. incessant
758. incision
759. including
760. incomparable
761. inconsequential
762. incontrovertible
763. increase
764. inculpation
765. indecisive
766. indelicate
767. indetermination
768. indigence
769. indispose
770. Indo-European
771. induction
772. industrious
773. inefficacy
774. ineradicable
775. inexpensive
776. infant
777. infer
778. infield
779. inflammation
780. influenza
781. infringing
782. ingrained
783. inhaler
784. inhumane
785. injunction
786. inmate
787. innuendo
788. inquire
789. inscribing
790. inset
791. insolence
792. inspiring
793. instill
794. insubstantial
795. insure
796. integral
797. intendant
798. intercept
799. interested
800. interlocutor
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801. internally
802. interracial
803. interstellar
804. intimidation
805. intravenous
806. introvert
807. invalidism
808. inversion
809. invincibility
810. involuntary
811. ionosphere
812. ironical
813. irrefutability
814. irresponsible
815. irritating
816. isosceles
817. Italy
818. ivied
819. jaded
820. January
821. Jefferson
822. jerkin
823. jewelry
824. jingling
825. jodhpur
826. jonquil
827. joyful
828. juggle
829. Juneau
830. justification
831. katydid
832. keyhole
833. killdeer
834. kindliness
835. kink
836. knavery
837. knee
838. knothole
839. Kremlin
840. lacework
841. lactose
842. laity
843. lampblack
844. landing
845. lankier
846. larcenous
847. lascivious
848. lath
849. laughable
850. laving
851. lazaretto
852. lean
853. lean-to
854. lectern
855. legalization
856. legionary
857. lemming
858. leonine
859. letdown
860. leverage
861. liable
862. libertine
863. lien
864. lighten
865. liking
866. limousine
867. liner
868. lioness
869. litany
870. lithosphere
871. livelong
872. loathing
873. locating
874. lodging
875. logy
876. longshoreman
877. Los Angeles
878. lowliness
879. lucid
880. lumbar
881. luncheonette
882. lustrate
883. lyceum
884. macaroon
885. maestro
886. magnet
887. mahatma
888. majordomo
889. malcontent
890. malignity
891. mammalian
892. mandatory
893. mango
894. manifestation
895. mannerly
896. manually
897. marcasite
898. marine
899. marquee
900. marten
901. masculinity
902. masseuse
903. matchless
904. mathematical
905. matronly
906. Maupassant
907. mazurka
908. measurability
909. meddler
910. medicinal
911. meerschaum
912. mellifluous
913. membranous
914. menacing
915. mensuration
916. mercerizing
917. mercy
918. merrymaking
919. messenger
920. metallurgist
921. metathesis
922. Methodist
923. Mexico
924. microfiche
925. middle-aged
926. midsummer
927. migrating
928. militarization
929. millwright
930. miner
931. minister
932. minus
933. misadventure
934. misbehave
935. miscellany
936. misdemeanor
937. misgovern
938. mismanagement
939. mispronunciation
940. Mississippi
941. mister
942. miter
943. mobbed
944. moderate
945. modification
946. Mohammed
947. momentum
948. monetization
949. monistic
950. monody
951. monomaniacal
952. Monongahela
953. monotreme
954. Montevideo
955. moonshiner
956. moralize
957. morion
958. morphology
959. mortise
960. motherhood
961. motorboat
962. mountaineer
963. movie
964. mudguard
965. mulligan
966. multiplied
967. municipally
968. muscadine
969. musing
970. mustard
971. muting
972. mycology
973. mystification
974. naked
975. napping
976. nasality
977. national
978. naturalize
979. Navajo
980. Neapolitan
981. necessary
982. nee
983. negativistic
984. neigh
985. nephritic
986. Netherlands
987. neuron
988. nevermore
989. newscast
990. nicad
991. Nike
992. nipping
993. nobility
994. noggin
995. nominator
996. nonconformist
997. nonprofit
998. Normandy
999. nosedive
1000. notation
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1001. notion
1002. November
1003. nucleonics
1004. number
1005. numismatist
1006. nutria
1007. oaken
1008. obeisant
1009. objectionable
1010. obliquely
1011. obscene
1012. observe
1013. obstinacy
1014. obtrusion
1015. occipital
1016. occurrence
1017. octahedral
1018. oddity
1019. off-color
1020. officinal
1021. ohmmeter
1022. old-world
1023. Olympian
1024. omnifarious
1025. one-step
1026. oolong
1027. openwork
1028. ophthalmologist
1029. opportunist
1030. optical
1031. oracular
1032. orchard
1033. ordinance
1034. ordnance
1035. orificial
1036. ornateness
1037. orthoepically
1038. osculate
1039. osteologist
1040. Ottawa
1041. outcropping
1042. outlaw
1043. outpouring
1044. outspread
1045. overactivity
1046. over and above
1047. overdraw
1048. overnight
1049. overstuff
1050. over-the-hill
1051. ovipositor
1052. oxide
1053. pacemaker
1054. packet
1055. pagination
1056. palanquin
1057. Palestine
1058. palmate
1059. paltry
1060. Pandora’s box
1061. panoply
1062. pantry
1063. papyrus
1064. paragraphic
1065. paramecium
1066. paratrooper
1067. paresis
1068. parlance
1069. parotid
1070. parsnip
1071. participial
1072. partnership
1073. pastel
1074. pasture
1075. paternalistic
1076. patio
1077. patristical
1078. paucity
1079. pecuniarily
1080. pediatrist
1081. peignoir
1082. penal
1083. penetrability
1084. penman
1085. pension
1086. penumbra
1087. peptone
1088. percentile
1089. percussion
1090. perfecto
1091. pericardial
1092. peripatetic
1093. periwig
1094. permeative
1095. perpetual
1096. persist
1097. personify
1098. persuasive
1099. pervade
1100. pestilence
1101. petrifaction
1102. petty
1103. phantom
1104. phase
1105. philatelic
1106. philter
1107. phonetics
1108. phosphorous
1109. photosensitive
1110. picket
1111. picture
1112. pietistic
1113. piker
1114. pillow
1115. pineal
1116. pinpoint
1117. piquing
1118. pitchfork
1119. pivotal
1120. placid
1121. planer
1122. plasmatic
1123. platonic
1124. plaything
1125. pledger
1126. Plexiglas
1127. plowing
1128. plumy
1129. plutocrat
1130. pocketful
1131. poetics
1132. poking
1133. policing
1134. pollinate
1135. polygamist
1136. polypropylene
1137. pompon
1138. pony
1139. poppycock
1140. porosity
1141. porter
1142. Portsmouth
1143. possessor
1144. posthaste
1145. postulation
1146. potentate
1147. poultry
1148. practicability
1149. praline
1150. prearrange
1151. preciosity
1152. preclusive
1153. predestinate
1154. prediction
1155. preemptive
1156. preferential
1157. prejudge
1158. premise
1159. preparedness
1160. presbyopia
1161. present
1162. presidium
1163. presupposition
1164. prevalence
1165. pricking
1166. primary
1167. princess
1168. prisoner
1169. pro tempore
1170. process
1171. proctor
1172. producible
1173. profession
1174. profuse
1175. programming
1176. prolate
1177. prominence
1178. promulgate
1179. propagation
1180. prophetess
1181. proposition
1182. prosaic
1183. prosodic
1184. protean
1185. protocol
1186. protrusion
1187. provider
1188. provost
1189. psychiatrist
1190. psychopathy
1191. publicist
1192. puffer
1193. pullover
1194. puma
1195. puncturing
1196. puppet
1197. purist
1198. purser
1199. pushing
1200. puzzle
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1201. python
1202. quadruplicate
1203. quantitative
1204. quartet
1205. quenched
1206. quickly
1207. quintessence
1208. quixotic
1209. quoting
1210. racism
1211. radiogram
1212. ragamuffin
1213. rainfall
1214. rambunctious
1215. rancid
1216. rapacious
1217. rarebit
1218. rather
1219. rationally
1220. ravishing
1221. realist
1222. rearranging
1223. rebound
1224. recapitulation
1225. reception
1226. recital
1227. recognizance
1228. recondite
1229. recovery
1230. rectangular
1231. recurred
1232. red-handed
1233. redound
1234. reenter
1235. refining
1236. refract
1237. refulgent
1238. regard
1239. region
1240. regularly
1241. reimbursement
1242. rejoice
1243. relative
1244. relevant
1245. religiosity
1246. remark
1247. remissible
1248. remotest
1249. rending
1250. renovate
1251. repairable
1252. repeater
1253. repine
1254. reposing
1255. repressive
1256. reproof
1257. repulsing
1258. requisition
1259. resemble
1260. residency
1261. resistance
1262. resonator
1263. respiratory
1264. restaurateur
1265. result
1266. retaliate
1267. retirement
1268. retread
1269. retrogression
1270. revelation
1271. reverential
1272. rhapsodist
1273. rheumatoid
1274. rhymester
1275. ricochet
1276. rifleman
1277. rigor mortis
1278. rinsed
1279. riskiness
1280. roadway
1281. rocket
1282. rollicking
1283. Romeo
1284. rooster
1285. rosemary
1286. rottenness
1287. round up
1288. round-trip
1289. rowboat
1290. rubicund
1291. ruffian
1292. rummage
1293. rupturing
1294. rusty
1295. sacking
1296. sacrum
1297. saffron
1298. sailfish
1299. salary
1300. sallow
1301. salutary
1302. samba
1303. sanctify
1304. sandwich
1305. Santa Claus
1306. Saratoga
1307. Saskatchewan
1308. satire
1309. Saturday
1310. sausage
1311. savorous
1312. scabbard
1313. scalpel
1314. scantling
1315. scaring
1316. scenic
1317. schizoid
1318. schooner
1319. sclerosis
1320. Scorpio
1321. scraggly
1322. scrawniness
1323. scriptural
1324. scrutinizing
1325. scurrilous
1326. sealskin
1327. seasoning
1328. secluded
1329. secreted
1330. secularize
1331. seducing
1332. seething
1333. seismologist
1334. self-confidence
1335. seltzer
1336. seminar
1337. Seneca
1338. sensibility
1339. sententious
1340. sepia
1341. sequent
1342. serenity
1343. serology
1344. servile
1345. settling
1346. severity
1347. shackle
1348. shaken
1349. shamming
1350. shareholder
1351. sheath
1352. shellac
1353. sherry
1354. shiny
1355. shoat
1356. shoreline
1357. shoved
1358. shredding
1359. Shrovetide
1360. shuttle
1361. sickeningly
1362. siege
1363. signatory
1364. silex
1365. silverware
1366. simplest
1367. simultaneous
1368. singing
1369. sinning
1370. sissy
1371. sized
1372. sketchily
1373. skimpy
1374. skylark
1375. slantwise
1376. sleazy
1377. sleuth
1378. slipped
1379. slopped
1380. sluggish
1381. smatter
1382. smitten
1383. smugly
1384. snaring
1385. sniffling
1386. snort
1387. soaking
1388. socialite
1389. sodium
1390. solecism
1391. solidification
1392. solon
1393. somehow
1394. somnolence
1395. soothsayer
1396. soprano
1397. sottish
1398. South Dakota
1399. soybean
1400. spared
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1401. spasmodically
1402. spearman
1403. specify
1404. spectroscopist
1405. speedway
1406. spherical
1407. spiking
1408. spinning
1409. spiritualism
1410. splash
1411. spoilage
1412. sponsor
1413. sportsmanship
1414. spreading
1415. spruced
1416. spurt
1417. square
1418. squealing
1419. stabbing
1420. staggeringly
1421. stalagmite
1422. stanchion
1423. starchiness
1424. starved
1425. stationery
1426. staunchly
1427. steeple
1428. stenographic
1429. sterile
1430. sticking
1431. stimulation
1432. stipulation
1433. stockyard
1434. stomacher
1435. strangling
1436. stratum
1437. stressed
1438. striking
1439. stroking
1440. strumming
1441. student
1442. stumbling
1443. sturdy
1444. Styrofoam
1445. subduing
1446. subletting
1447. submersion
1448. subpoenaed
1449. subside
1450. substantive
1451. subtrahend
1452. successor
1453. sudsy
1454. suffocation
1455. suggestive
1456. sulfite
1457. sultrier
1458. summoned
1459. sunnier
1460. supererogation
1461. superman
1462. supervention
1463. supplementation
1464. suppose
1465. supreme
1466. surgery
1467. surprised
1468. surveillant
1469. suspicion
1470. swaddle
1471. swastika
1472. sweetheart
1473. swineherd
1474. swordsmanship
1475. syllable
1476. sympathy
1477. syncopated
1478. synonym
1479. synthetic
1480. tabbed
1481. taboo
1482. tactician
1483. talcum
1484. tamed
1485. tango
1486. taper
1487. tarpon
1488. tasty
1489. taxable
1490. teamwork
1491. technological
1492. telemeter
1493. temblor
1494. temporarily
1495. tendril
1496. tenterhook
1497. termite
1498. terrified
1499. testify
1500. textile
1501. their
1502. theistic
1503. theory
1504. there
1505. thermometer
1506. they’re
1507. thievery
1508. thoracic
1509. three-peat
1510. throstle
1511. thyroid
1512. tightwad
1513. timid
1514. tinny
1515. tiring
1516. titular
1517. toile
1518. tomcat
1519. tonsure
1520. topple
1521. torpor
1522. toss-up
1523. tournament
1524. toxic
1525. trademark
1526. trailer
1527. transcendency
1528. transform
1529. transitory
1530. transom
1531. trapezoid
1532. treading
1533. trellis
1534. triad
1535. trickle
1536. trihedral
1537. tripartite
1538. triturate
1539. Trojan
1540. trouble
1541. trudging
1542. trustworthiness
1543. tuberose
1544. tumbrel
1545. turban
1546. turmeric
1547. Tutankhamen
1548. twi-night
1549. tympanum
1550. tyrannize
1551. ulcerous
1552. umbrage
1553. unavoidable
1554. unbuckle
1555. unclad
1556. uncouth
1557. undergraduate
1558. understand
1559. undoing
1560. unequivocal
1561. unfinished
1562. unground
1563. uniform
1564. unite
1565. unlearned
1566. unmoral
1567. unprintable
1568. unrest
1569. unseemly
1570. unstudied
1571. unwarrantable
1572. uphill
1573. upstart
1574. uremic
1575. usurious
1576. vacancy
1577. vagabond
1578. valid
1579. vanadium
1580. vaquero
1581. various
1582. veeringly
1583. velour
1584. venetian blind
1585. ventricle
1586. verbiage
1587. verily
1588. vernier
1589. verve
1590. Vesuvius
1591. viand
1592. viceroy
1593. Vietnam
1594. villain
1595. viola
1596. viridescent
1597. viscount
1598. vitalization
1599. vivacious
1600. vocalist
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1601. voile
1602. volume
1603. voting
1604. vulgarization
1605. wading
1606. waistband
1607. wallboard
1608. waning
1609. warmonger
1610. wasabi
1611. watercourse
1612. wattle
1613. wayside
1614. weatherproof
1615. weevil
1616. well-to-do
1617. whacking
1618. wheelwright
1619. wherever
1620. whined
1621. whisker
1622. whitlow
1623. wicked
1624. wiggle
1625. willowy
1626. window
1627. winner
1628. wisdom
1629. wither
1630. woeful
1631. woodcraft
1632. Worcester
1633. worldly
1634. worthily
1635. wreath
1636. wrinkling
1637. Xanadu
1638. yachting
1639. yearning
1640. yogi
1641. Youghiogheny
1642. your
1643. you’re
1644. yucca
1645. zephyr
1646. zither
1647. Zurich
The 2017 word list is the sixth of a series of five original lists that are released in mid-May.
The only source used for pronunciations and definitions used in competitions will be the
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Words must have identical
spellings in both this word list and the dictionary in order to be used in competition. If a
discrepancy appears, words that do not match will not be used in competition. Every effort
was made to select only words which are appropriate for school use. If necessary, a list of
words that have been eliminated will be posted at www.iasp.org
2017 Junior Spell Bowl pg. 8