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Spelling Words and their definition
First Spelling Quiz – Dalton Bichronous

1. Commander (n) : a person who is charge of a group of people.

2. Antenna (n) : a device for sending or receiving radio or television signals.
3. Vandalism (n) : the act of deliberately destroying or damaging a property.
4. Exercise (n) : a physical activity that is done in order to become stronger or healthier.
5. Hypocrisy (n) : refers to behavior that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or
feel.
6. Manuscript (n) : an original copy of a play, book, piece of music before it has been printed.
7. Claustrophobia (n): a fear of being in closed or small spaces.
8. Euthanasia (n) : the act or practice of killing someone who is very sick or injured to prevent
Any more suffering.
9. Camouflage (n) : a way of hiding something by painting it or covering.
10. Anniversary (n) : a date that is remembered or celebrated.
11. Fahrenheit (n) : a scale for measuring temperature.
12. Reservoir (n) : a place where a liquid is stored.
13. Catastrophe (n) : a terrible disaster.
14. Accomplishment : something done, achieved, or accomplished successfully.
15. Extraterrestrial (adj) coming from or existing outside the planet earth.
16. Lieutenant (n) : an officer in the army or air force with a fairly low rank.
17. Questionnaire (n) : a written set of quations.
18. Bureaucrat (n) : a person who is one of the people who run a government.
19. Apostrophe (n) : a mark used to indicate the omission of letters or figures.
20. Banal (adj) : being boring or ordinary; not interesting
21. Coy (adj) : having a shy or sweetly innocent quality
22. Diabolical (adj) : extremely evil or very unpleasant
23. Abomination (n) : something regarded with disgust or hatred
24. Animosity (n) : a strong feeling of dislike or hatred
25. Apathy (n) : lack of feeling or emotion
26. Affirmation (n) : a positive assertion; an act of agreeing on something
27. Blasphemy (n) : great disrespect shown to God.
28. Bittersweet (n) : combining sadness and happiness
29. Belittle 9adj) : to describe something or someone as unimportant
30. Biased (adj) : showing unfair tendency
31. Chauvinist (adj) : one who believes that something is better than the other
32. Connoisseur (n) : a person who knows a lot about something
33. Consistency (n) : a condition of adhering to something
34. Defiance (n): a refusal to obey something or someone
35. Demure (adj) : quiet or polite
36. Despicable (adj) : very bad or unpleasant; deserving to be despised
37. Disseminate (adj) : to spread
38. Effervescence (v) : to show liveliness or exhilaration
39. Ephemeral (adj) : lasting a very short time
40. Epic (n) : a story of a hero, great or impressive
41. Ethereal (adj) : resembling heaven, seeming to belong to another world
42. Exquisite (adj) : finely done or made, very sensitive or fine
43. Fluctuate (v) : to change level, strength or value; to rise or fall
44. Fallacious (adj) : not true or accurate
45. Fickle (adj) : changing very often

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This word is claimed to be the longest word in English
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This a song and single from the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins. It was written by the Sherman
Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.