Sixth Grade spelling words
16 weeks of sixth 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· The Ancient Assembly
- abundant
- acquire
- adequate
- advocate
- ancient
- anxious
- apparent
- approach
- arrogant
- assemble
Week 2· Barriers and Brave Candidates
- barrier
- beneficial
- bewilder
- boisterous
- brilliant
- burden
- campaign
- candidate
- capable
- caution
Week 3· The Lost Civilization
- circumstance
- civilization
- collapse
- commence
- commitment
- compassion
- competent
- complex
- conclude
- conflict
Week 4· Consequences and Cooperation
- consequence
- considerable
- consistent
- conspicuous
- constant
- contribute
- convince
- cooperate
- courageous
- criticize
Week 5· Cultivating Courage
- cultivate
- curious
- decisive
- decline
- dedicate
- defiant
- deliberate
- demonstrate
- descend
- desperate
Week 6· Detectives and Disasters
- detect
- determine
- devastate
- diligent
- diminish
- disaster
- discourage
- distinct
- distribute
- dominant
Week 7· A Dramatic Test of Endurance
- dramatic
- eager
- eccentric
- efficient
- elaborate
- eligible
- eliminate
- emerge
- emphasize
- endure
Week 8· The Essential Environment
- enormous
- environment
- essential
- establish
- evaluate
- evidence
- exaggerate
- excessive
- exhaust
- expand
Week 9· Extraordinary and Fragile Wonders
- extraordinary
- familiar
- fascinate
- feeble
- ferocious
- fertile
- flexible
- fluent
- fortunate
- fragile
Week 10· From Frustration to Gratitude
- frequent
- frustrate
- generate
- genuine
- gradual
- gratitude
- gruesome
- hesitate
- hostile
- humble
Week 11· The Power of Influence
- identical
- ignorant
- illustrate
- immense
- impact
- impressive
- inevitable
- influence
- initial
- innocent
Week 12· Inquiry and Insight
- inquire
- insight
- inspire
- intense
- interpret
- intricate
- investigate
- isolate
- jubilant
- justify
Week 13· A Magnificent Discovery
- legitimate
- leisure
- luminous
- magnificent
- maintain
- majority
- massive
- mature
- meager
- mediocre
Week 14· Mischief and Negotiation
- mischievous
- monotonous
- negotiate
- nostalgic
- obstacle
- obvious
- opponent
- optimistic
- originate
- outrageous
Week 15· Persuasion and Perspective
- participate
- peculiar
- persistent
- perspective
- persuade
- plentiful
- practical
- precise
- predict
- preserve
Week 16· Vivid and Significant Voices
- prominent
- reluctant
- resourceful
- significant
- sincere
- substantial
- sufficient
- tremendous
- unanimous
- vivid
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