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25 Hard Spelling Words

This document defines 25 words from different parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives. The words cover a wide range of topics from surveys and questioning to plants, vehicles, behaviors, emotions, dialogue forms, and more. Many of the words are multisyllabic and less common in everyday language.

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25 Hard Spelling Words

This document defines 25 words from different parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives. The words cover a wide range of topics from surveys and questioning to plants, vehicles, behaviors, emotions, dialogue forms, and more. Many of the words are multisyllabic and less common in everyday language.

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questionnaire - noun: a list of questions; survey

2. unconscious - adjective: not conscious; without awareness

3. precocious - adjective: unusually mature, especially in mental development

4. liaison - noun: a person who maintains a connection between people or


groups

5. surveillance - noun: continuous observation of a person, place, or activity


in order to gather information

6. chrysanthemum - noun: a widely cultivated plant with brightly-colored


showy flower heads

7. idiosyncrasy - noun: a tendency, habit or mannerism that is peculiar to an


individual; a quirk

8. chauffeur - noun: a person hired to drive a private automobile or limousine

9. onomatopoeia - noun: the formation of a word by imitation of a sound of


the noise or action described, such as hiss, honk, or meow.

10. conscientious- adjective: careful, particular, taking great care

11. demitasse -  noun: small coffee cup

12. vengeance - noun: punishment inflicted for a wrong done to oneself or


another person; revenge

13. prospicience - noun: the act of looking forward; foresight

14. acquiesce - verb: to accept as inevitable; to comply passively

15. malfeasance -  noun: conduct by a public official that violates the public
trust or is against  the law
16. irascible -  adjective: irritable, quick-tempered

17. antediluvian - adjective: 1. of or relating to the period before the Biblical


flood  2. old-fashioned; antiquated

18. foudroyant - adjective: sudden and overwhelming; stunning

19. eudemonic - adjective: pertaining to conducive to happiness

20. logorrhea - noun: excessive and often incoherent talkativeness

21. pterodactyl - noun: any of various extinct flying reptiles, having no


feathers

22. stichomythia - noun: dialogue, especially a dispute, delivered in


alternating lines

23. feuilleton - noun: part of a European newspaper or magazine with content


designed to entertain the reader

25. milquetoast  - noun: a timid, unassertive, or apologetic person

25. chrematistic - adjective: of or relating to making money

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