Broadford Spelling Bee Words

It's that time again! Tomorrow the children of KS1 and KS2 will be taking part in the opening round of the spelling bee. The word lists were sent out in September, but if you'd like to do some last minute 'cramming', here's a reminder of the words that could be quizzed! Good luck to all children who choose to take part!

KS1:

coil	proud	city	neighbour
voice	around	circus	wreck
join	about	dancer	gym
noise	towel	recycle	journey
poison	power	knock	jacket
enjoy	found	knife	fixed
toys	race	knee	except
royal	certain	remember	squirrel
house	bicycle	wrist	giraffe
mouth	price	wrote	sleeping

KS2:

Accessible means easy to approach	Bonsai is a tree that has been dwarfed, as by pruning.	Cemetery is a place set apart for graves or tombs.	Counsel is advice.	Detached means not attached or separated.
Accommodate is to do a kindness or a favour to; oblige.	Bough is a branch of a tree.	Censor is an official who examines material to suppress all or part of it.	Coyote is a smaller, wolf-like animal.	Dictionary is a book containing a selection of words or a language.
Assassin is a murderer, especially in politics.	Bouquet is a bunch of flowers.	Census is an official enumeration of the population.	Crochet is needlework with a needle having a hook at one end.	Disappear  is to cease to be seen.
Automaton is another word for a robot.	Bursar is a treasurer or business officer.	Chameleon is a lizard that can, as protection, change colour.	Croquet is a game played by knocking balls through metal wickets with a mallet.	Discernible means capable of being distinguished.
Baboon is a large monkey found in Africa or Arabia.	Calendar is a table of days and weeks in a year.	Chauffeur is a person employed to drive an automobile.	Crouton is a small piece of fried or toasted bread.	Distraught means deeply agitated.
Balloon is an inflated bag.	Campaign is a military operation for a specific objective.	Colonel is an officer in the Army or Air Force.	Crypt is a subterranean chamber or vault.	Doubt is to be uncertain about.
Bassoon is a large woodwind instrument.	Canvass is to solicit votes.	Conceit is an excessively favourable opinion of oneself.	Cuckoo is a common European bird.	Drought is a period of dry weather.
Bazaar is a marketplace, especially in the Middle East.	Caribou is a large, North American deer.	Conscious is being aware of one's own existence.	Cursor is a movable symbol on a computer.	Ecstasy is rapturous delight.
Beige is a very light brown.	Caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly or moth.	Consensus is a majority of opinion.	Deceive is to mislead by a false appearance or statement.	Elite is the choice or the best of anything.
Bizarre is markedly unusual.	Cellist is a person who plays a cello.	Cough is to expel air through the lungs harshly, often violently.	Defendant is a person against whom a charge is brought against in court.	Embarrass is to cause confusion and shame to.

 

Ensign is a flag or banner.	Flaunt means to display oneself conspicuously.	Gherkin is the immature fruit of a cucumber, used in pickling.	Hangar is a shelter for airplanes.	Hoax is something intended to deceive or defraud.
Entrepreneur   is a person who organizes or manages an enterprise.	Fledgling is a young bird or an inexperienced person.	Giraffe is a long-necked African animal.	Harass is to disturb persistently.	Honest is honourable on intentions and principles.
Etiquette is conventional requirements to social behaviour.	Floe is a sheet of floating ice.	Glitch is a defect or malfunction in a plan or machine.	Harlequin is a buffoon.	Horizon is the line that forms the apparent border between earth and sky.
Exacerbate is to make something worse.	Flour is the finely ground meal of grain.	Governor is the chief executive of a state.	Havoc is great destruction or devastation.	Horrendous is shockingly dreadful.
Exchequer is a treasury.	Flourish means to thrive.	Gorgeous means splendid or magnificent.	Hearth is the floor of a fireplace.	Humiliate is to cause a loss of pride or dignity.
Fatigue is weariness from exertion.	Foray is a quick raid.	Gorilla is the largest of the anthropoid apes.	Height is the extent or distance upward.	Hurrah is an exclamation of joy.
Feasible is capable of being done.	Freight is goods or cargo transported for pay.	Graffiti are markings on walls.	Helix is a spiral.	Hustle is to proceed or work rapidly.
Feint is a movement made to deceive an opponent.	Gauge is to determine the capacity of or to measure.	Grammar is the study of the way sentences are constructed.	Hemisphere is half of the terrestrial globe.	Hyacinth is a plant of the lily family.
Fiery is containing fire or impetuous.	Gerbil is a small, burrowing rodent.	Guild is an organization of people with related interests.	Hindrance is an impeding or a stopping.	Hygiene is the science that deals with preservation of health.
Fight is a battle or combat.	Geyser is a hot spring that sends up jets of water and steam.	Halve is to divide into two equal parts.	Hippopotamus is called the river horse, from Africa.	Hymn is a song in praise of God.