Spelling Bee Grade 2 Word List for Rounds 2 & 3 Words Meanings

Spelling Bee Grade 2

Word List for Rounds 2 & 3

Words 1. Digestion (n) 2. Environment (n) 3. Senses (n) 4. Vowels (n) 5. Alphabet (n) 6. Prevent (v) 7. Listening (v) 8. Surprise (n) 9. Different (adj) 10. Swallow (v) 11. Wasp (n) 12. Swamp (n) 13. Thick (adj) 14. Wand (n) 15. Beautiful (adj) 16. Friend (n) 17. Special (adj) 18. Pattern (n) 19. Visitors (n) 20. Chuckle (v) 21. Thunder (n) 22. Beware (v)

Meanings the process of digesting food the surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives feelings through which we receive information about everything around us letters representing vowel sounds such as a, e, i, o, u a set of letters in fixed order in the English Language keep something from happening give attention to a sound an unexpected event not the same as another or each other to pass food or drink down the throat a yellow and black striped insect with a sting land that is always wet and often partly covered with water having a large distance from one surface to the opposite surface a long, thin stick used by a magician during magic tricks generally pleasing a person who you like and enjoy being with better or more important a repeated decorative design someone who visits a person or place to laugh quietly a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash to be careful in case of danger or trouble

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23. Rustle (v) 24. Carpenter (n) 25. Architect (n)

make a soft, muffled sound like the sound caused by movement of dry leaves or paper a person who makes and repairs wooden objects and structures

a person who designs buildings

26. Phonics (n)

Connection between the letter symbols and their sounds

27. Cousin (n)

a child of your uncle or aunt

28. Habit (n)

the usual way of behaving

29. nephew (n)

a son of your brother or sister

30. Diet (n)

the kinds of food that a person or animal habitually eats

31. Function (n)

the purpose of a person or thing

32. System (n)

group of parts working together

33. Pollute (v)

make the environment dirty, harmful or not safe to use

34. Numeral (n)

figure indicating a number

35. Remember (v) to think of something or someone from the past again

36. Expand (v)

to increase in size or become bigger

37. Hundred (n)

the product of ten and ten

38. Ascending

going up or climbing from a lower place to a higher place

39. Addition (n)

the action of adding something to something else

40. Subtraction (n) the process of taking one number away from another

41. Awesome (adj) extremely impressive

42. Nervous (adj)

being afraid or anxious

43. Respect (v) 44. Dangerous (adj)

admire someone or something deeply because of the abilities or qualities of the person or thing

able or likely to cause harm or injury

45. Thirteen (n)

Number equal to the sum of six and seven

46. Rubbish (n)

waste material or litter

47. Dinosaur (n)

reptiles that lived on Earth millions of years ago

48. School (n)

an institution for educating children

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49. Knock (v) 50. Year (n) 51. Bother (v) 52. Cluck (n) 53. Descending (v) 54. Variety (n) 55. Caterpillar (n) 56. Cardboard (n)

to hit something with the knuckles of the hand time that is equal to 12 months to cause someone to feel troubled or worried the short, low sound made by a hen going down or moving from a higher place to a lower place the state of being different The larva of a butterfly or moth very thick paper that's used to make boxes

57. Nutrition (n)

Food or nourishment

58. Quantity (n)

the amount of something, or the number of things

59. strength (n)

physical power

60. currency (n)

the system of money used in a country

Key:

n ? noun

v ? verb

adj ? adjective

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