Vocabulary eXpected Grade Level: 8 (916)
abide
abides
abiding
ablaze
abode
abodes
abominable
abreast
abstracts
abyss
accomplices
accord
accorded
accordingly
adrift
adversaries
affliction
aggrieved
aimlessly
airless
alarmingly
alcove
alcoves
alder
alliances
allotted
ambassador
ambassadors
amends
annotation
answerable
antiquity
apologetically
appease
appeased
appended
applicable
archipelago
armament
arrayed
associations
assuredly
astir
astronomically
atone
atoned
attentively
attire
attired
audacious
avail
availed
bach
baffle
bannocks
barkers
battalions
beady
begrudge
begrudged
begrudging
beguile
beguiled
behaviour
bereaved
beryl
beset
besets
besiege
bestow
bestowed
bewitched
biter
bitterly
blankly
blight
boatload
bodiless
boggy
boldly
bollards
bonds
bony
bower
bracken
bramble
brambles
brazen
breach
breached
breaches
breadth
breathlessness
brilliantly
brooch
brooches
brunt
butchery
canny
captors
carven
casting
cavernous
chafed
chafes
chamber
chambers
changefulness
changer
cheerfulness
chooser
citadel
clamour
clamouring
clippings
closely
coastlands
colonized
comfortless
commemoration
commodity
compensation
compiled
compounded
compounds
confer
confounded
conical
conjure
conjuring
conspiracy
constantly
constrain
constraining
contributor
converged
converging
converse
cornel
coronal
correspondence
corruption
corslet
corslets
countenance
countrified
courteously
courtly
coverlet
coverlets
covet
coveted
covets
cowardice
craggy
credible
crookedly
crossings
crossly
cruelly
cunningly
curdled
curdling
dangerously
dappled
dappling
darkly
deceptions
deem
deemed
deeming
defiantly
deficiency
deft
dejectedly
delete
deliberate
deliberately
delightedly
deliverance
deluded
depleted
deposed
derived
desolate
devastate
devastates
devastating
diffused
dimness
dingle
dire
disastrous
discern
discerned
discontent
discord
discreetly
dishevelled
dispelled
dispossess
dispossessed
disquietingly
dissension
dissensions
dissimilar
distinction
distinctions
distraught
dominion
dominions
doubtfully
dour
draught
draughts
dreadfully
drones
droning
drunkenly
dubious
dully
dumbness
earnestly
easternmost
eddying
edgewise
ells
embarked
embattled
enamoured
encompassed
endlessly
enfolding
engrossed
engrossing
engulf
engulfed
enormously
esteem
esteemed
esteeming
evermore
evilly
exaggeration
exceedingly
excellently
exceptionally
expectancy
extension
fabulously
fag
faithfully
fanfare
fanged
farsighted
favour
favoured
favourite
favourites
fearlessness
festering
festers
fibre
fiercely
fifteenth
firmness
fitful
fitfully
flabbergasted
flagstone
flatness
flattery
flaunt
flavour
flecked
fleeted
fleeting
fleshless
flickered
flickering
flustered
fondly
foolishly
foreboding
forester
foretell
foretelling
foretellings
forethought
foretold
forsooth
forthcoming
fortunately
frauds
frightfully
froth
frothed
frothing
frugal
fruitful
g
galled
garnets
gatherer
gatherers
gaunt
gauntlets
genealogies
genealogy
gloat
gloated
gloating
gloomily
glumly
glut
goings
graciously
gratefully
graven
graveyard
greatly
greedily
greenwood
greenwoods
greybeard
greybeards
grievances
grimness
grotto
grudgingly
gruffly
guttural
habergeon
habitual
hack
hacked
hacking
hacks
haggling
hamlet
hamlets
handled
handling
haphazard
harbour
harbourage
harboured
harbours
harmlessly
harpers
hauberk
hauberks
haughty
havoc
headstall
hearken
hearkened
hearted
heathland
hedgerows
henceforth
hereafter
hereditary
hesitatingly
hewn
highroad
hindrance
hoarsely
hobgoblins
homage
homecoming
hopelessly
horny
horribly
hoy
hullo
humpbacked
idiotic
immeasurable
imminent
impassable
implications
implored
inaccuracy
inadequate
incantation
incantations
inclination
inclined
incorrupt
inevitable
inevitably
inflame
inflamed
initially
inlaid
inmost
innovation
insolence
insolent
intelligible
intensely
intentional
intently
interlacing
inventory
inverted
invisibility
inwards
irresistibly
iv
jargon
jargons
jetsam
jingled
jingling
journeyed
journeying
journeyings
jowl
joyously
justly
keenly
keystone
kindliness
knowingly
laborious
lakeside
lament
lamented
lamenting
lander
landers
largely
largish
larn
leaguer
leaper
learners
leastways
leaved
legged
leggy
leisurely
lidded
linden
ling
livid
loathed
loathing
lodgings
loftier
lofty
lolly
longish
lubber
lustily
mace
maces
madly
magnitude
maimed
manfully
marshland
marvellous
masted
mastery
materials
meagre
meddlers
medially
melancholy
melodious
menacingly
metalwork
mindless
misdeeds
misgave
misinterpreting
mistook
moonless
mortality
mourners
muffled
munition
muse
mused
musing
musings
musty
myrtles
mysteriously
mythical
narratives
nasal
nasals
needlessly
needlework
neighbour
neighbourhood
neighbouring
neighbours
newly
nicely
ninepins
nobly
noiselessly
nosey
nothingness
oblivious
obscure
obscured
obstinately
occasionally
odour
odours
offensive
officially
ominous
ominously
onslaught
oozy
oracle
orb
ordained
outcry
outfall
outflow
outpost
outposts
outset
outwardly
outworn
overlaid
overpass
overran
overrun
overruns
painfully
palpitating
pang
paring
passable
passers
password
passwords
pastured
paternal
pathway
pathways
pawn
pawns
peacefully
pebbly
pedestal
pedestals
pent
penthouse
perchance
perilously
permanently
perpetually
perplexities
perturbed
ph
phonetic
pilgrimage
pitfalls
pivoted
plainly
plight
plighted
pong
popularly
portage
possessor
possessors
postscript
potencies
potency
potent
practise
practised
practising
praiseworthy
preceded
preceding
precipice
precipices
prentice
presently
presumption
pretence
privately
proceedings
profound
prone
prosperity
quagmires
quivered
quivering
quoits
radiance
rammers
ransacked
ransacking
ravage
ravaged
readily
readiness
reams
recapture
recapturing
reckonings
reconciled
reconquered
redecorated
rediscovered
reduction
regretfully
regrettable
relapsed
relinquish
relinquished
reluctance
reluctantly
remade
remake
remaking
remnant
remnants
removal
rend
rending
renewal
reordering
repent
repentance
repented
repenting
repents
repute
resolute
resolved
restlessly
restraint
revere
revered
reverence
richly
ringed
ritual
riverside
riversides
rogue
ropers
rudely
ruffian
ruffians
rumour
rumoured
rumours
ruthlessly
saxifrages
scantily
scattered
scattering
scones
scoundrels
scourges
scrubby
scuttle
scuttled
scuttling
searchingly
seared
searing
sears
seaward
secretly
securely
sedge
seething
sentry
serene
shaper
shard
shards
sharers
sharpness
sheen
sheer
shifted
shifting
shipbuilder
shirk
shirking
shooter
shoreward
shortcomings
signified
signifies
signifying
sinister
skilful
skulking
slaver
slavered
slavering
sleepiness
slobbering
slouched
slouching
smithies
smithy
smitten
snick
snicked
solace
solemnly
solitude
sooth
soundlessly
southwest
spawned
specially
speedily
spidery
spinners
spittle
splendidly
splendour
splendours
spurning
starless
stature
staunch
staunched
staves
steadfastly
stealthily
sternly
stonily
storeyed
strenuous
stubbornly
stumpy
stupidly
sturdily
subsided
subterranean
subtle
subtleties
subtlety
sulkily
suppressed
supremacy
surname
surnames
swathed
sweepings
swordsman
swordsmen
talkative
tat
teemed
teeming
temperament
tenseness
thereby
thereof
thereupon
thither
threateningly
throaty
thwart
thwarted
tier
tiered
tiers
timeless
torchlight
tracker
trackers
transparency
trappings
traveller
travellers
treasonable
treeless
trespasser
trespassers
tresses
trestle
trestles
trill
trilled
triumphantly
truant
truants
trumpeters
trussed
truthfully
tufted
tum
tunic
turbulent
tussle
twitter
twofold
ultimate
unaccountable
unawares
unbearably
unbent
unblinking
uncanny
uncertainly
unchanging
uncharted
unclasped
unclenching
uncomfortably
unconquerable
undaunted
undead
undoubtedly
uneasiness
uneaten
unexpectedly
unfulfilled
unfurl
unfurled
ungracious
unheeded
unimaginable
unintelligible
uninteresting
unlading
unlawful
unlearn
unlearned
unlit
unmelted
unmoved
unquenchable
unquiet
unrelated
unruffled
unsaddled
unscathed
unshaken
unshaped
unslinging
unslung
untamed
untended
unto
untutored
unveiled
unwanted
unwillingly
unwisely
upkeep
upturned
vaguely
valiantly
vapour
vapours
variously
vassal
vassals
vi
vile
vilest
violently
virtually
visibly
waft
wafted
wafts
wager
wanly
warrant
warren
wasteful
wasteland
waterside
waylaid
waylay
waylaying
weakling
wheedle
wheedling
whereas
whomsoever
wildly
winch
withheld
withhold
withholding
withholds
wonderfully
workmanship
worshipful
wrappings
wrathful
wreathe
wreathed
wrights
yammered
yammering
ye
yesteryear
yore
zenith
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Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels, Flor et al (2024)