kes spelling bee

The Kes spelling bee is back. Year 7 kick off in December with year 8 and 9 doing theirs early in 2008 - you've got a little longer to learn the really tough ones. We had such great competitions last year we are hoping for the same again.
These are the first two lists with the tougher ones to follow.
Good luck!


General spelling
.
accommodation
conclusion
explanation
actually
conscience
February
alcohol
conscious
fierce
although
consequence
forty
analyse/analysis
continuous
fulfil
argument
creation
furthermore
assessment
daughter
guard
atmosphere
decide/decision
happened
audible
definite
health
audience
design
height
autumn
development
imaginary
beautiful
diamond
improvise
beginning
diary
industrial
believe
disappear
interesting
beneath
disappoint
interrupt
buried
embarrass
issue
business
energy
jealous
caught
engagement
knowledge
chocolate
enquire
listening
climb
environment
lonely
column
evaluation
lovely
concentration
evidence
marriage
material
potential
sincerely
meanwhile
preparation
skilful
miscellaneous
prioritise
soldier
mischief
process
stomach
modern
proportion
straight
moreover
proposition
strategy
murmur
questionnaire
strength
necessary
queue
success
nervous
reaction
surely
original
receive
surprise
outrageous
reference
survey
parallel
relief
technique
participation
remember
technology
pattern
research
texture
peaceful
resources
tomorrow
people
safety
unfortunately
performance
Saturday
Wednesday
permanent
secondary
weight
persuade/persuasion
separate
weird
physical
sequence
women
possession
shoulder


Common homophones and confusions

advise/advice
choose/chose
quiet/quite
a lot of
cloth/clothe
sites/sights
affect/effect
conscience/conscious
source/sauce
allowed/aloud
course/coarse
thank you
bought/brought
our/are
threw/through


Art
abstract
easel
kiln
acrylic
exhibition
landscape
charcoal
foreground
palette
collage
frieze
pastel
collection
gallery
perspective
colour
highlight
portrait
illusion
sketch
dimension
spectrum
display

D. T.
aesthetic
hygiene
presentation
brief
ingredient
production
carbohydrate
innovation
protein
component
knife/knives
recipe
design
diet
machine
specification
disassemble
manufacture
technology
evaluation
mineral
tension
fabric
natural
textile
fibre
nutrition
vitamin
flour
flowchart
portfolio

English
advertise/advertisement
figurative
preposition
alliteration
genre
resolution
apostrophe
grammar
rhyme
atmosphere
imagery
scene
chorus
metaphor
simile
clause
myth
soliloquy
cliché
narrative
subordinate
comma
onomatopoeia
suffix
comparison
pamphlet
synonym
conjunction
paragraph
tabloid
consonant
personification
vocabulary
dialogue
playwright
vowel
exclamation
plural
expression
prefix

Geography
abroad
function
poverty
amenity
globe
provision
atlas
habitat
region
authority
infrastructure
rural
climate
international
settlement
contour
landscape
situation
country
latitude
tourist
county
location
transportation
desert
longitude
urban
employment
national
wealth
erosion
physical
weather
estuary
pollution

History
agriculture/agricultural
defence
politics
bias
disease
priest
castle
document
propaganda
cathedral
dynasty
economy/economic(al)
rebellion
chronological
emigration
reign
citizen
government
religious
civilisation
immigrant
republic
colony
imperial
revolution
conflict
independence
siege
constitution
invasion
source
contradict
motive
trade
current
parliament
traitor

ICT
binary
hardware
network
byte
icon
output
cable
input
password
cartridge
interactive
preview
CD-ROM
interface
processor
computer
Internet
program
connection
justify
scanner
cursor
keyboard
sensor
database
megabyte
server
delete
memory
software
disk
modem
spreadsheet
document
module
virus
electronic
monitor
graphic
multimedia

Library
alphabetical
encyclopaedia
novel
anthology
extract
photocopy
article
fantasy
publisher
author
genre
relevant
catalogue
glossary
romance
classification
index
section
content
irrelevant
series
copyright
librarian
system
dictionary
magazine
thesaurus
editor
non-fiction

Mathematics
addition
estimate
positive
adjacent
equation
quadrilateral
alternate
fraction
questionnaire
angle
graph
radius
amount
guess
ratio
approximately
horizontal
recurring
average
isosceles
reflection
axis/axes
kilogram
irregular
calculate
kilometre
rhombus
centimetre
litre
rotation
circumference
measure
square
corresponding
metre
subtraction
co-ordinate
minus
symmetry
decimal
multiplication
triangle
degree
parallel
tonne
denominator
negative
vertical
diameter
numerator
volume
digit
percentage
weight
division
perimeter
equilateral
perpendicular




Music

score
choir
minim
semibreve
chord
minor
synchronise
chromatic
musician
syncopation
composition
octave
tempo
crotchet
orchestra/orchestral
timbre
dynamics
percussion
triad
harmony
pitch
vocal
instrumental
quaver
interval
rhythm
lyric
scale
major
qualify
PE
injury
relay
activity
league
squad
agility
medicine
tactic
athlete
mobility
tournament
bicep
muscle
triceps
exercise
personal
field
pitch
gymnastic
hamstring

Science
exchange
organism
absorb
freeze
oxygen
acid
frequency
particles
alkaline
friction
predator
amphibian
function
pressure
apparatus
growth
reproduce
chemical
hazard
respiration
circulation
insect
solution
combustion
laboratory
temperature
condensation
liquid
thermometer
cycle
mammal
vertebrate
digestion
method
vessel
element
nutrient
evaporation