150 Words Every Sixth Grader Should Know How to Spell: List 9

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  1. fabricate
    put together out of artificial or natural components
  2. pheasant
    a wild game bird with long narrow tail feathers
  3. supervisor
    one who has charge and direction of
  4. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  5. legible
    capable of being read or deciphered
  6. reprimand
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  7. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  8. cringe
    draw back, as with fear, pain, or embarrassment
  9. ghetto
    a poor densely populated city district
  10. precipitation
    the falling to earth of any form of water
  11. visualize
    form a mental picture of something that is invisible
  12. smudge
    make a smear on or soil by smearing
  13. brochure
    a small booklet with information about a product or service
  14. misbehave
    act badly
  15. chaperone
    one who accompanies and supervises young people
Created on Mon Jun 02 11:04:10 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jul 11 10:54:14 EDT 2025)

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