High School Vocabulary
The page provides online resources to build vocabulary for students of high school, from 9th grade to 12th grade, which includes spelling words, academic words, and words related to literature reading. Besides, we have developed lots of interactive and printable exercises and encourage students to play them either alone or guided by tutors and parents.
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Difficult Words with Sentence
1000 Basic SAT ACT Words
SAT ACT Vocabulary Flashcard| Complete Word |
Some high school students still like the tool to review known words; the interactive game is to fill in 3 or more missing letters to complete a word. Each set has 12 words with hints of definition and pronunciation, and you will fail the word after three wrong guessings.
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High school (9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade) students usually have to spend lots of time building vocabulary, especially those planning to test the SAT or ACT. (Some students' grade 9 is in junior high school or middle school, starting high school from 10th grade. In this scenario, please take tasks from your actual class.)
In general, high school words are in three groups:
We organize word lists by grades at first. You can get spelling words, academic words (for Arts), and literature words in each grade accordingly. Tutors and parents can get word lists for separate grades and subjects here.
Because some high school subjects aren't set by particular grades, we will list academic words (for social studies, science, and math) by subjects, not by grades.
Please focus on Spelling Words and Arts of Academic if you are new here. They are core in high school students' vocabulary.
However, what you get isn't only a set of high school words. It's an all-in-one tool to study high school vocabulary; it tells you what to learn, when, and how to learn. It also integrates with lots of interactive tests and exercises and printable worksheets. It's handy for students to access anywhere and anytime through the Internet.
Considering the attributes of different word lists, we have developed various study and exercise tools, such as online cards, interactive exercises, printable cards, and printable quizzes. We show some samples here.
Although we encourage high school students to manage their studying activities, tutors and parents can also produce printable worksheets dynamically to help students warm up, review, or quiz.
In general, high school words are in three groups:
- Spelling words: know them and can spell them correctly to express ideas
- Academic words: used in classes for all subjects, must understand them to get good scores in non-language subjects
- Literature words: selected from classics that are recommended to students of the grades, nice to know them
We organize word lists by grades at first. You can get spelling words, academic words (for Arts), and literature words in each grade accordingly. Tutors and parents can get word lists for separate grades and subjects here.
Because some high school subjects aren't set by particular grades, we will list academic words (for social studies, science, and math) by subjects, not by grades.
Please focus on Spelling Words and Arts of Academic if you are new here. They are core in high school students' vocabulary.
However, what you get isn't only a set of high school words. It's an all-in-one tool to study high school vocabulary; it tells you what to learn, when, and how to learn. It also integrates with lots of interactive tests and exercises and printable worksheets. It's handy for students to access anywhere and anytime through the Internet.
Considering the attributes of different word lists, we have developed various study and exercise tools, such as online cards, interactive exercises, printable cards, and printable quizzes. We show some samples here.
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Quick Access High School Vocabularies
9th Grade
| Spelling words: | Spelling 1 Spelling 2 Spelling 3 Spelling 4 Spelling 5 Spelling 6 Spelling 7 Spelling 8 |
| Academic words: | Difficult Words 1 Difficult Words 2 |
10th Grade
| Spelling words: | Spelling 1 Spelling 2 Spelling 3 Spelling 4 Spelling 5 Spelling 6 Spelling 7 Spelling 8 |
| Academic words: | Difficult Words 1 Difficult Words 2 |
11rd Grade
| Spelling words: | Spelling 1 Spelling 2 Spelling 3 Spelling 4 Spelling 5 Spelling 6 Spelling 7 Spelling 8 |
| Academic words: | Difficult Words 1 Difficult Words 2 |
12rd Grade
| Spelling words: | Spelling 1 Spelling 2 Spelling 3 Spelling 4 Spelling 5 Spelling 6 Spelling 7 Spelling 8 |
| Academic words: | Difficult Words 1 Difficult Words 2 |
100 Hard English Words for 12th Grader
As we present in 10 Questions about K12 Spelling Words, in general, the average active vocabulary of an adult English speaker is around 20,000 words. If plus passive vocabulary, the total is around 40,000 words. For students who are leaving high school for college, these 100 hard English words are a quick tool to evaluate vocabulary skills. A 12 grader may not know each of them but should comprehend most of them.
abjure: 
abrogate:
abstemious:
acumen:
antebellum:
auspicious:
belie:
bellicose:
bowdlerize:
chicanery:
chromosome:
churlish:
circumlocution:
circumnavigate:
deciduous:
deleterious:
diffident:
enervate:
enfranchise:
epiphany:
equinox:
evanescent:
expurgate:
fatuous:
feckless:
fiduciary:
filibuster:
gamete:
gauche:
gerrymander:
hegemony:
hemoglobin:
homogeneous:
hubris:
hypotenuse:
impeach:
incognito:
incontrovertible:
inculcate:
infrastructure:
interpolate:
irony:
jejune:
kinetic:
kowtow:
laissezfaire:
lexicon:
loquacious:
lugubrious:
metamorphosis:
mitosis:
moiety:
nanotechnology:
nihilism:
nomenclature:
nonsectarian:
notarize:
obsequious:
oligarchy:
omnipotent:
orthography:
oxidizeparabola:
paradigm:
parameter:
pecuniary:
photosynthesis:
plagiarize:
plasma:
polymer:
precipitous:
quasar:
quotidian:
recapitulate:
reciprocal:
reparation:
respiration:
sanguine:
soliloquy:
subjugate:
suffragist:
supercilious:
tautology:
taxonomy:
tectonic:
tempestuous:
thermodynamics:
totalitarian:
unctuous:
usurpvacuous:
vehement:
vortex:
winnow:
wrought:
xenophobe:
yeoman:
ziggurat: