Twelfth Grade spelling words
16 weeks of twelfth grade words, ten per week. Practise each list free online — your child hears the word, sees it flash, then writes it from memory — or print the cards.
Week 1· Abrogating the Ambiguous Accord
- abrogate
- acquiesce
- aesthetic
- alacrity
- ambiguous
- anachronism
- anomaly
- antithesis
- apathy
- arbitrary
Week 2· The Archaic Ascetic
- archaic
- articulate
- ascetic
- assiduous
- audacious
- austere
- autonomy
- belligerent
- benevolent
- cacophony
Week 3· Candor Amid Clandestine Cogency
- candor
- capricious
- catalyst
- caustic
- circumvent
- clandestine
- cogent
- coherent
- conducive
- conundrum
Week 4· The Deleterious Despot
- convoluted
- cryptic
- deference
- deleterious
- demagogue
- denounce
- deride
- despot
- diaphanous
- didactic
Week 5· Disparate Eloquence
- disparage
- disparate
- dissonance
- eclectic
- egregious
- elicit
- eloquent
- empirical
- enigma
- ephemeral
Week 6· The Erudite Equivocator
- equanimity
- equivocate
- erudite
- esoteric
- euphemism
- exacerbate
- exemplary
- exonerate
- extraneous
- facetious
Week 7· Hegemony and Hyperbole
- fastidious
- fervent
- flagrant
- florid
- fortuitous
- gratuitous
- gregarious
- hackneyed
- hedonism
- hegemony
Week 8· The Iconoclast's Impasse
- heretical
- hyperbole
- iconoclast
- idiosyncrasy
- impassive
- impetuous
- implacable
- impute
- incisive
- indignant
Week 9· Ineffable Inexorability
- ineffable
- inexorable
- ingenuous
- innocuous
- insidious
- insipid
- intractable
- intransigent
- inveterate
- irascible
Week 10· Juxtaposed Lassitude
- juxtapose
- lassitude
- laudable
- lucid
- magnanimous
- malevolent
- mendacious
- meticulous
- misanthrope
- mitigate
Week 11· Mollified Misanthropy
- mollify
- morose
- myriad
- nebulous
- nefarious
- nihilism
- obfuscate
- obsequious
- obstinate
- onerous
Week 12· Ostensible Ostracism
- opaque
- ostensible
- ostracize
- paradox
- paragon
- parsimonious
- pedantic
- perfunctory
- pernicious
- pervasive
Week 13· Platitudes of a Polemicist
- philanthropy
- placate
- platitude
- polemic
- pragmatic
- precarious
- precocious
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- prodigious
Week 14· The Profligate Quixote
- profligate
- proliferate
- propensity
- prosaic
- prudent
- pugnacious
- quandary
- quixotic
- rancor
- recalcitrant
Week 15· Reverent Sardonicism
- reticent
- reverent
- sagacious
- sanctimonious
- sardonic
- sedulous
- solicitous
- sophistry
- spurious
- stoic
Week 16· The Sycophant's Trepidation
- subjugate
- sycophant
- taciturn
- tenacious
- trepidation
- ubiquitous
- vacillate
- vindicate
- vitriolic
- zealot
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