150 Words Every Sixth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 5

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  1. athlete
    a person trained to compete in sports
  2. artificial
    contrived by art rather than nature
  3. obstacle
    something that stands in the way and must be surmounted
  4. incredible
    amazing; extraordinarily good or great
  5. threatening
    suggesting or expressive of evil, harm, or danger
  6. tournament
    a competition in which contestants play a series of games
  7. innocence
    the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong
  8. episode
    a happening that is distinctive in a series of events
  9. traitor
    a person who says one thing and does another
  10. descendant
    a person considered as coming from some ancestor or race
  11. statistics
    a branch of mathematics concerned with quantitative data
  12. illegal
    prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
  13. diameter
    the length of a straight line through the center of a circle
  14. procedure
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
  15. grammar
    the branch of linguistics that deals with sentence structure
Created on Mon Jun 02 11:01:17 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:53:35 EDT 2025)

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