Spelling Lists - Challenge

*Fourth graders earn the challenge list when they miss 0, 1, or 2 on the pretest given each Monday. 
*Any words they missed from the pretest will also be tested on Friday, so be sure to study those, too!  (This means your child will have 10, 11, or 12 words to study depending on the number missed on the pretest.) 
*The challenge list must be earned each week.
*Challenge words are derived from the vocabulary words for the story we are reading from our basal as well as frequently misspelled words that fourth graders use in their writing.
List 1 anxious, recognizing, retire, sprucing, vacant, adore, accidentally, accomplish, abundance, absence 
List 2 chortle, leisure, compromise, perseverance, uneasy, disappointment, advice, argument, athletic, attendance
List 3 tropical, attentively, restless, troublesome, pageant, rehearsals, calendar, boundaries, clothing, basically
 List 4 salary, tremendous, sportsmanship, courageous, appreciation, valuable, immigrants, modest, characteristic, controlled
List 5 marveled, starstruck, brisk, elegant, practical, elevations, miniatures, outspoken, criticize, convenient
List 6 shiftless, ad lib, luxury, privilege, elated, shamefacedly, assent, indignantly, definitely, description
List 7 encircling, steely, loyal, insignificant, plotting, twined, unyielding, neglected, discipline, disastrous
List 8 nestles, instinctively, stranded, ventured, burrows, uninhabited, encouragement, enemy, either
List 9 haze, lavender, inhaled, skidded, mural, especially, exaggerate, exhaust, experiment, extremely
List 10 jealous, displeasure, smuggled, endangered, coordination, facial, foreign, familiar, fiery
List 11 alarmed, windbreak, paddock, conch, rustle, generally, grammar, guarantee, government, happily
List 12 hoping, heroes, grudge, glumly, tutor, disposition, pastimes, impose, irritable, bicker
List 13 logical, sympathetically, excitable, wistfully, acquaintance, eavesdropping, scrounging, island, jealousy, knowledge
List 14 lovely, length, license, overwhelm, occasionally, irrigation, equivalent, interpreter, appetizing, hysterically
List 15 abundant, bonding, ceases, surrender, tundra, piteously, medicine, millionaire, mosquito, mysterious
List 16 modify, circular, scholarship, devices, disabilities, prosthetic, document, narrative, obstacle, occasion
List 17 strengthening, muttered, straightaway, sculptor, alibi, retorted, occurred, opinion, opportunity, outrageous
List 18 rascally, roguish, fascinated, generous, thrifty, particular, performance, physical, physician, piece
List 19 script, triumphantly, injustice, desperately, discards, acceptance, circumstances, possibility, principal, privilege
List 20 plentiful, decreed, famine, trickle, implored, procedure, profession, realize, recommend, repetition
List 21 curfew, dedication, billowing, brigade, flammable, ventilate, representative, restaurant, safety, scary
List 22 obliged, examiner, certificate, apologized, resounded, petitioners, schedule, sincerely, skiing, enrich
List 23 brush, spiny, habitat, teeming, topple, decomposes, perch, nectar, strategy, stubbornness
List 24 certainly, heartily, undoubtedly, loathe, protruded, indifferent, sulkily, syllable, surround, success
List 25 confetti, accordion, mesquite, barbeque, chile, culture, technical, thorough, tragedy, tomorrow
List 26 abandoned, beckons, rugged, fares, multicultural, profitable, mountainous, excitedly, potential, colonial
List 27 fertile, pioneer, arbor, harmony, possibilities, villain, violence, weird, visible, Wednesday
List 28 bellowing, softhearted, ration, tragedy, gadgets, fateful, woman, worthwhile, guarantee, jewelry
List 29 victim, fertilizer, accidentally, dissolve, chemicals, boggiest, carnivorous, enormous, grateful, writing
List 30 corridor, apparently, enthusiastically, investigate, transformed, achievement, analyze, column, irrelevant, maintain

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