150 Words Every Eighth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 4

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  1. besiege
    surround so as to force to give up
  2. luncheon
    a midday meal
  3. anonymous
    having no known name or identity or known source
  4. gorgeous
    dazzlingly beautiful
  5. bachelor
    a man who has never been married
  6. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  7. cylinder
    a surface generated by rotating a line around a fixed line
  8. ghastly
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  9. vigilant
    carefully observant or attentive
  10. inconvenience
    the quality of not being useful
  11. luxurious
    furnishing gratification to the senses
  12. grotesque
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
  13. admonish
    scold or reprimand; take to task
  14. metropolitan
    relating to or characteristic of a large urban area
  15. susceptible
    yielding readily to or capable of undergoing a process
Created on Tue Jun 03 19:29:42 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:57:24 EDT 2025)

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