150 Words Every Sixth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 7

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  1. anniversary
    the date on which an event occurred in some previous year
  2. vigorously
    in an energetic manner
  3. vertical
    at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
  4. harass
    annoy continually or chronically
  5. rotten
    having decayed or disintegrated
  6. grievance
    a complaint about a wrong that causes resentment
  7. endurance
    a state of surviving; remaining alive
  8. cemetery
    a tract of land used for burials
  9. economics
    science dealing with the circulation of goods and services
  10. elementary
    of or being the essential or basic part
  11. infamous
    known widely and usually unfavorably
  12. extinct
    no longer in existence
  13. enclosure
    a structure consisting of an area that has been confined
  14. instructor
    a person whose occupation is teaching
  15. recipe
    directions for making something
Created on Mon Jun 02 11:02:39 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:53:55 EDT 2025)

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