The English language brings up a lot of opportunities for kids to learn new words. With every different word, you can enhance your vocabulary and take it to a level above. Therefore Englishbix has devised an extensive list of tough words with the help of educators of these words which should be taught to the children. It contains words segregated in mainly two categories: Medium and Hard. You can also find a good sentence example which shows the application of the words.
35+ Tough Words for Elementary Grade Kids
Following is a list of challenging words you teach your kids to help them improve both their spelling and vocabulary.
- Appoint
Example: The parties could agree on a judge, or they could appoint one from a list, called album iudicum.
- Approve
Example: We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning.
- Beginner
Example: The first thing was how to traverse, followed by slow slides down the beginner slope.
- breathe
Example: He can breathe fire and climb trees and he always poos in the same part of the garden.
- Colony
Example: I also think the human body is beautiful and love just letting it all hanging out, I could live in a naturist colony for sure.
- Competition
Example: Somehow the debate devolved into a petty competition to see who could get more applause.
- Crouton
Example: Heat a small haggis according to the butcher’s instructions, then scoop some onto a crouton.
- Devotion
Example: They are affectionate and uninhibited and their lifelong devotion to each other is touching.
- Disguise
Example: Even if you toast stale bread in an attempt to disguise the staleness, it’s still stale.
- Eager
Example: The site made us all eager to get down there so we changed quickly into our bathers.
- Education
Example: Several games were provided for the education and amusement of the children.
- Feature
Example: A major feature of the privatization process has been the accompanying divestment of regulation.
- Fiction
Example: If all fiction is an autobiography, then we must suggest that perhaps all autobiography is fiction.
- Fragile
Example: Brown curls that framed his fragile features and accented his crystalline red-hazel eyes.
- Grateful
Example: The organizers are short of prizes for the tombola and raffle so I would be very grateful for any donations.
- Guardian
Example: I looked around, hoping, praying to a guardian angel to help me get out of this predicament.
- Household
Example: It is believed that education is wasted on girls, who will marry and take their wage-earning abilities to another household.
- Invention
Example: It is a human invention or creation not of a physical or material kind but of a purely intellectual and ideational kind.
- Junction
Example: Bring all cables from various jacks into the junction box and connect the wires under the appropriately colored terminals.
- Management
Example: If he doesn’t know about content management systems and bandwidth, he’d better learn.
- Memorable
Example: It was a truly memorable night for all of them, an occasion to relish for years to come.
- Mightily
Example: It’s difficult to imagine him not struggling mightily his first year in New York.
- Nature:
Example: Due to the ambiguous nature of the question, it was difficult to choose the right answer.
- Pardon
Example: A petition was immediately signed, most respectably and numerously, for her respite and pardon.
- Passenger
Example: A passenger in his car, his son, said he had not been paying attention to the road ahead as they traveled towards their home.
- Pleasure
Example: You can abandon yourself to pleasure but need to keep an eye on over-indulgence.
- Reason
Example: The negotiations have gotten nowhere, and I see no reason to continue with this pointless exercise.
- Afterthought
Example: The music sounds like it was an afterthought, and the singer’s dead-sober seriousness is self-indulgent and boring.
More Challenging & Hard Spelling Words
- Achieve
Example: They were able to achieve an important triumph against their chief rivals.
- Acoustics
Example: He specializes in ocean acoustics, signal processing, and physical oceanography.
- Conscious
Example: Being clear, and always conscious of whether my words could be twisted, was really important.
- Detrimental
Example: He was blamed for this inappropriate exposure of secret material, and it had a detrimental impact on his reputation and mental state.
- Dominant
Example: It has a deep magenta color that contrasts well with the more dominant green and gray foliage colors of the garden.
- Frugal
Example: In general terms, the food is frugal and relies on fresh ingredients and dexterity to transform them.
- Medallion
Example: He patted his chest where the medallion was hidden beneath his white lace-up shirt.
- Precious
Example: Things got worse when the boat’s watermaker packed up and Richards had to spend precious time repairing it.
- 9. Pronounce
Example: I couldn’t pronounce or understand half the names and in-jokes but they still made me chuckle regardless.
- Significance
Example: The practical significance of apportionment is that the next election results may differ because of it.
Save this list for your future reference and Keep it handy with you. This will help your kids to practice spelling some challenging words and learn their use in sentences. You can also have a quick look at the list of super hard words for spelling bee competition.
You can suggest some more words to add to this list by commenting down below.