Words that Second Graders Don't Know

A list by jennarenn.

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1. Tell your second graders to get ready for their weekly spelling test.

2. Tell them that the first word is serendipitous.

3. Watch twenty-five pairs of eyes pop.

• vacuous has been listed 75 times with 1 comment
• egregious has been listed 191 times with 10 comments
• bombylious has been listed 9 times with 10 comments
• invective has been listed 64 times with 1 comment
• coeval has been listed 46 times with 3 comments
• chatoyant has been listed 56 times with 3 comments
• anthropomorphic has been listed 51 times with 0 comments
• sesquipedalian has been listed 276 times with 35 comments
• quaquaversal has been listed 24 times with 2 comments
• acrimonious has been listed 60 times with 0 comments
• obeisance has been listed 37 times with 1 comment
• catatonic has been listed 29 times with 0 comments
• portmanteau has been listed 194 times with 13 comments
• macabre has been listed 163 times with 7 comments
• reduplication has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
• petulant has been listed 99 times with 2 comments
• vitiate has been listed 55 times with 1 comment
• calumniate has been listed 21 times with 0 comments
• sobriquet has been listed 113 times with 16 comments
• doppelganger has been listed 176 times with 3 comments
• rapacious has been listed 74 times with 1 comment
• etagere has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
• prestidigitation has been listed 131 times with 4 comments
• supercilious has been listed 137 times with 8 comments
• confluence has been listed 57 times with 1 comment
• riparian has been listed 51 times with 6 comments
• copious has been listed 60 times with 3 comments
• repast has been listed 22 times with 0 comments
• verdant has been listed 76 times with 2 comments
• affable has been listed 48 times with 0 comments
• evanescent has been listed 70 times with 4 comments
• irascible has been listed 117 times with 2 comments
• pugnacious has been listed 84 times with 1 comment
• superfluous has been listed 192 times with 0 comments
• serendipitous has been listed 75 times with 0 comments
• dilettante has been listed 94 times with 12 comments
• quorum has been listed 43 times with 0 comments
• avarice has been listed 68 times with 1 comment
• ebullient has been listed 111 times with 1 comment
• ameliorate has been listed 114 times with 4 comments
• requisite has been listed 16 times with 1 comment
• diffident has been listed 50 times with 0 comments
• insouciant has been listed 203 times with 9 comments
• paucity has been listed 82 times with 2 comments
• munificent has been listed 32 times with 0 comments
• taciturn has been listed 177 times with 9 comments
• nefarious has been listed 167 times with 5 comments
• diaphanous has been listed 152 times with 13 comments
• alacrity has been listed 149 times with 2 comments
• inveigh has been listed 44 times with 1 comment
• flummox has been listed 110 times with 6 comments
• arugula has been listed 32 times with 8 comments
• copasetic has been listed 19 times with 7 comments
• syzygy has been listed 236 times with 17 comments
• quotidian has been listed 168 times with 8 comments
• parsimonious has been listed 93 times with 1 comment
• quisling has been listed 62 times with 10 comments
• opalescent has been listed 61 times with 1 comment