150 Words Every Eighth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 6

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  1. incidentally
    by the way (used to introduce a new topic)
  2. hazardous
    involving risk or danger
  3. amiss
    in an improper or mistaken manner
  4. mercenary
    a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  5. circumference
    the length of the closed curve of a circle
  6. appliance
    a small mechanical device or tool
  7. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
  8. obsolete
    no longer in use
  9. negligence
    failure to act with the prudence of a reasonable person
  10. lucrative
    producing a sizeable profit
  11. propensity
    a natural inclination
  12. subtlety
    the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
  13. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  14. meteor
    a mass that enters earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent
  15. plaintiff
    a person who brings an action in a court of law
Created on Tue Jun 03 19:30:16 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:57:42 EDT 2025)

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