SPELLING- BEE CONTEST VOCABULARY

1° & 2° GRADE

WORD DEFINITION
ACQUIRE Learn or develop (a skill, habit, or quality)
AMBITION A strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically
requiring determination and hard work
ATTRACTIVE Very pleasing in appearance or sound
BUSINESS The activity of buying and selling goods and services:
COMMITTED: Loyal and willing to give your time and energy to something that
you believe in:
DESSERT Sweet food eaten at the end of a meal:
DILEMMA Situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between
two different things you could do:
EMBARRASSED: Feeling ashamed or shy:
FREEZING Extremely cold:
GENTLEMAN A man who is polite and behaves well towards
other people, especially women
HURRICANE A violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in
the west atlantic ocean:
IMMEDIATE: Happening or done without delay or very soon after
something else:
MILLENNIUM A period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of
1,000 years ends:
MISSPELL To fail to spell a word correctly
NECESSARY: Needed in order to achieve a particular result:
NEIGHBOUR Someone who lives very close to you:
PSYCHOLOGIST: Someonewho studies the human mind and human emotions
and behaviour, and how different situations have
an effect on people:
QUESTIONNAIRE A list of questions that several people are asked so
that information can be collected about something:
RECOMMEND To suggest that someone or something would be good
or suitable for a particular job or purpose, or to suggest that
a particular action should be done:
RHYTHM A strong pattern of sounds, words, or musical notes that is used
in music, poetry, and dancing: