For all the smart 3rd graders who have a spelling bee coming, here is a list of more than 100 tough words that will help you sharpen all your skills and are most likely to appear in your spelling bee!
Spelling Words for Third Grade
Following is an alphabetically sorted sequence of words for a third grade student to prepare for spelling competition.
| abstract | abundance | acoustic | adapt |
| adverse | afford | agile | anonymous |
| aptitude | assuage | auspicious | avenger |
| babble | bonanza | belittle | bard |
| bizarre | burrito | brochure | brittle |
| baffled | beneath | bohemian | benign |
| ceremony | conservation | conversation | converge |
| comatose | cuddle | captive | charisma |
| cassette | cue | crude | caviar |
| dampen | deduce | defame | delicate |
| devour | dire | discord | decode |
| dismantle | disintegrate | dejected | dismal |
| ebb | endure | enamor | enchanted |
| eulogy | extort | extract | enigma |
| epidemic | effusion | endear | emigrate |
| fathom | flaccid | felon | fuddle |
| forfeit | fortnight | franchise | fanfare |
| factual | feline | feud | fumble |
| grill | gloat | gambit | gross |
| gall | girth | gibe | gangrene |
| galvanize | gibberish | government | gloss |
| horde | harbor | holocaust | holster |
| huddle | hindsight | headstrong | hoodwink |
| haggle | homely | humble | hue |
| idiom | impaired | implement | impromptu |
| inception | incognito | incompetent | inevitable |
| infamous | insatiable | intact | interim |
| Jest | Jockey | Jargon | Jumble |
| Junk | Jock | Justice | Jibe |
| Jeer | kneel | kindle | kernel |
| knack | knit | knight | knot |
| laminate | lampoon | lagoon | lumber |
| latent | lunatic | leash | lurk |
| lethargic | lilliputian | latitude | longitude |
| machinery | majestic | magnificent | manifold |
| material | maternal | matrix | mayhem |
| melee | melodrama | menace | mercenary |
| Narrative | Native | National | Nectar |
| Neglect | Negotiation | Neutral | Nimble |
| Nocturnal | Nostalgia | Notorious | Nuclear |
| Oatmeal | oblique | obsolete | obstruct |
| occupation | offensive | opaque | opposition |
| optional | ordinance | orientation | orthopedics |
| personality | plagiarize | phalanx | proliferate |
| premeditate | precocious | peripatetic | pomposity |
| pterodactyl | posthumous | preponderance | plumage |
| Qualitative | quantum | quarrel | quench |
| queue | quietude | quip | quiver |
| quitoxic | quotation | quest | query |
| refute | remonstrate | rift | restitution |
| remission | rancid | ravine | repercussion |
| rabid | reckon | rake | reek |
| secretary | sentiment | soiree | specter |
| subjective | subtle | starch | spree |
| spur | slovenly | sardine | scion |
| torso | transgression | truncate | thrift |
| tarantula | tenacity | tarnish | tombstone |
| trident | tightwad | theoretical | taunt |
| unconditional | universal | unorthodox | unravel |
| unfounded | unconventional | unjust | unresponsive |
| undermine | unilateral | uncanny | unstable |
| valiant | vernacular | vicarious | vignette |
| vulnerable | variable | veteran | villain |
| verification | vendetta | vegetation | viscera |
| warranty | watershed | wharf | wheezing |
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