Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 1
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 1
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
Animals: alligator, bear, bull, camel, cat, cow, crab, deer, donkey, elephant, fish, fox, frog, goat, horse, lion, monkey, mouse, ox, pig, rabbit, shark, sheep, snail, tiger, turtle, wolf, yak, zebra
Birds: cock, crane, crow, dove, duck, eagle, goose, hen, owl, parrot, peacock, pigeon, sparrow, swan, turkey
Animals - Homes, Young Ones, Sound: bear-cub, bee-buzz, buffalo-grunt, camel-desert, cat-kitten, cat-meow, cow-calf, crow-caw, deer-fawn, frog-croak, horse-colt, lion-roar, mouse-burrow, parrot-cage, pigeon-coo, sheep-baa
Colours: black, blue, brown, green, khaki, orange, pink, purple, red, violet, white, yellow
Body Parts: arm, cheek, chest, chin, ear, eye, finger, hair, hand, knee, leg, lip, mouth, nail, neck, nose, teeth, tongue
Food Items: biscuit, bread, butter, carrot, cheese, chilli, chocolate, corn, egg, maize, milk, pasta, potato, rice, salad, salt, sandwich, sauce, soup, sugar, tea, tomato
Household Items: bowl, chair, cooker, cooler, flask, glass, hanger, heater, jug, kitchen, lamp, mirror, mug, napkin, needle, plate, spoon, table, towel
Occupation: actor, artist, cook, dancer, dentist, doctor, driver, farmer, nurse, painter, pilot, policeman, postman, sailor, singer, soldier, tailor, teacher, waiter, writer
Relationships: aunt, brother, child, children, daddy, father, mother, parent, sister, son, uncle, wife
Trees/Plants/Flowers/Fruits: apple, bamboo, banana, banyan, berry, coconut, cotton, grain, grape, lemon, lily, lotus, mango, marigold, oak, olive, orange, palm, papaya, pine, rose, watermelon
Clothing: belt, boot, boots, cap, coat, frock, gown, hat, jeans, pants, sandals, shirt, shoes, shorts, slippers, socks, suit, tie
Science: aeroplane, air, animal, branch, climate, cloth, cloud, drain, flower, gas, heat, hygiene, jungle, leaf, liquid, matter, mountain, natural, nature, nest, pencil, people, plant, rainbow, root, school, season, solid, stem, volcano
Adjectives : active, afraid, amazed, angry, angry, annoyed, beautiful, better, big, bitter, blind, bored, brave, bright, broad, calm, calm, capable, careless, cheap, cheap, cheerful, chief, clean, clever, cold, cruel, cute, decent, different, dull, empty, empty, favourite, flat, foolish, frozen, furious, gentle, giant, giggle, glad, golden, greedy, healthy, helpful, honest, huge, huge, hungry, joyful, kind, little, little, local, lonely, loud, loud, naughty, nervous, pretty, pretty, proud, quick, quiet, ripe, sharp, silly, smooth, special, stray, tall, tasty, tasty, thirsty, tired, unable, warm, warm, wrong, young
Verbs: accept, admit, advise, aim, allow, attach, attack, attempt, attend, avoid, bake, bark, bathe, begin, believe, bleed, block, bring, bring, brook, carry, carry, catch, catch, change, cheat, check, cheer, climb, continue, crawl, create, create, cross, cry, dance, decorate, define, demand, describe, destroy, draw, dream, drink, drink, enjoy, explain, fight, finish, float, forget, forgive, fumble, gamble, gargle, glide, grow, guess, happen, hike, imagine, inspect, jump, jump, keep, laugh, lean, learn, listen, need, play, pretend, prick, read, recite, release, reply, reveal, scream, shake, share, shout, shout, sing, sleep, sleep, stick, study, swing, talk, tease, throw, trick, trouble, understand, wake, wake, whisper, wipe, wish, write, yawn, yawn, yell
Synonyms: afraid-scared, big-large, blank-empty, calm-silent, crawl-move, create-build, evil-bad, giant-huge-large, hide-cover, learn-study, lively-energetic, merry-happy, messy-dirty, pretty-beautiful, same-alike, shut-close, sleepy-drowsy, wash-clean
Antonyms: above-below, bad-good, big-small, brave-fearful, clean-dirty, clever-stupid, continue-stop, dark-bright, empty-full, fat-thin, happy-sad, in-out, joy-sorrow, late-early, laugh-cry, listen-ignore, poor-rich, quick-slow, quiet-noisy, slow-fast, strange-usual, tiny-huge, up-down, warm-cold
Double Letter Words: balloon, beep, bell, breeze, cell, coffee, door, egg, feel, food, kitten, letter, marry, merry, pattern, puzzle, ribbon, riddle, ripple, scissors, speech, summer, toffee, tool, tree, umbrella, wheel
Nouns: ability, abroad, accident, account, action, activity, actual, alarm, album, amount, anger, animal , athlete, author, award, bamboo, band, banker, barber, basket, battery, beauty, benefit, bicycle, bike, blanket, blood, bottom, bowl, brain, branch, brand, brass, bubble, bucket, budget, bullet, bunch, cabin, camera, campus, cancel, candy, capital, cart, cave, cave, chain, chance, channel, charm, chemical, circus, cliff, cloud, cone, correct, couch, country, crate, crown, dairy, dark, dawn, dental, desk, dice, doe, dolphin, doubt, dragon, dress, drum, duchess, effect, emperor, fabric, factory, fame, family, farm, feather, feeling, flag, flame, flight, floor, flour, fork, frame, future, gallery, garlic, garment, gentleman, giggle, ground, health, hike, holiday, hook, horse, hotel, joke, kettle, kick, king, lemonade, mare, matter, minute, mixture, morning, mule, nature, niece, novel, nurse, opera, origin, overnight, owner, parent, party, pebble, people, plot, pocket, poem, poet, pollution, pond, power, prank, present, preview, prince, remark, result, ribbon, rider, rooster, safety, scoop, seal, secret, shade, skate, skirt, slice, sloth, spring, storm, story, stunt, switch, target, tennis, tomorrow, town, twist, wagon, whistle, wrist
Miscellaneous : actually, ahead, already, always, anyone, anywhere, away, everywhere, happily, just, outside, someone
Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Please note that the dictionary which will be used for reference is Oxford Learner's Dictionary
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 2
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 2
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
Animals: buffalo, cheetah, chimpanzee, giraffe, gorilla, hare, hippopotamus, jaguar, kangaroo, leopard, pony, squirrel
Birds: canary, hornbill, hummingbird, kingfisher, kiwi, magpie, ostrich, robin, vulture, woodpecker
Insects: ant, beetle, butterfly, caterpillar, cockroach, grasshopper, honeybee, housefly, spider, worm
Animals - Homes, Young Ones, Sound: bear-growl, cow-moo, dog-bark, donkey-bray, duck-quack, elephant-trumpet, fox-cub, goat-bleat, horse-neigh, horse-stable, lion-cave, monkey-infant, mouse-squeak, owl-owlet, pig-grunt, sheep-lamb, sheep-shed
Body Parts: calf, claw, elbow, eyebrow, eyelash, foot, forehead, heel, jaw, nostril, ribs, shoulder, stomach, toe, wings
Relationships: classmate, cousin, daughter, family, grandchild, grandfather, grandmother, grandparent, grandson, husband
Food Items: burger, cabbage, cereal, cookie, cupcake, honey, pumpkin, spice, wheat
Trees/Plants/Flowers/Fruits: blueberry, cauliflower, daisy, grapes, jasmine, peach, pear, pineapple, pomegranate, strawberry, sunflower, tulip
Clothing: gloves, jacket, scarf, skirt, stockings, sweater, trousers, uniform
Everyday Items: basket, bench, bicycle, box, breakfast, brick, brush, bucket, building, carpet, carriage, chain, eraser, loaf, packet, picture, plank, prize, quilt, skate, spade, stack, stamp, tram, water
Our Environment: church, circus, clown, court, crew, field, frost, game, garden, ground, lawn, magic, market, morning, park, place, prisoner, river, scrap, sea, shade, shadow, shape, shell, shower, smoke, space, splash, stone, string, thorn, track, window, yard
Adjectives: absolute, accurate, alone, alone, another, awake, awake, aware, awful, bald, bare, blind, blunt, boiled, bored, bright, broad, bulky, careful, caring, central, certain, clean, clever, curious, dark, delighted, difficult, dirty, drowsy, eager, early, elastic, excited, fair, fair, familiar, famous, filthy, firm, flexible, fried, friendly, frigid, gentle, giant, gloomy, greedy, grey, happy, harmless, jolly, keen, kind, large, lazy, mad, maritime, moist, nervous, playful, plump, pretty, queer, quiet, sacred, sad, scared, second, secret, secure, serious, sick, simple, smooth, sour, steady, thick, tough, tropical, weakness, wealthy, wise, worst
Preposition/Adverbs: always, behind, below, everywhere, from, inside, into, outside, quite, soon, then, there, through, until, upstairs, with, yesterday
Verbs: absent, accept, achieve, admire, admit, appear, argue, arouse, arrive, bail, bake, begin, bleach, blow, bounce, burst, carry, chase, chew, chirp, claim, classify, combine, compare, count, crash, decide, discover, dive, dive, double, draw, drive, drive, enter, erase, escape, estimate, exit, finish, float, found, freeze, gather, grasp, grunt, guess, hear, help, hide, hope, invent, invite, join, leap, leave, like, live, make , march, meet, mend, mend, mention, observe, pass, please, poke, predict, prefer, publish, push, record, recover, reflect, repair, require, rip, search, separate, settle, shiver, slid, steer, straighten , support, travel, tremble, wonder, worry
Synonyms: enormous- large, forgive- excuse, crash-smash, gentle-pleasant, giant-large, grow-cultivate, ill-sick, jog-run, listen-hear, little-small, lucky- fortunate, neat-tidy, puzzle-riddle, sack-bag, stout-fat, true-right, wise-clever, wonder-amaze
Antonyms: dull- bright, stiff- flexible, begin-finish, care-ignore, create-destroy, dream-reality, last-first, lazy-lively, noise-quiet, remember- forget, right-wrong, sell-buy, separate-combine, short-long, sour-sweet, start-stop, thick-thin
Double Letter Words: across, between, book, bottle, broom, bubble, cheer, cottage, creek, dinner, floor, fuss, kennel, nineteen, queen, success, village, weed
Nouns: ability, access, accuracy, ache, acquire, addition, address, admission, advance, agent, argument, bachelor, backpack, backyard, bacteria, bakery, balance, bangle, banjo, barrier, baseball, bazaar, bean, bee, beggar, benefit, blade, border, bread, bundle, canteen, capsule, cargo, cartoon, cause, cement, channel, cloud, clown, component, connection, cooperation, crack, crocodile, cushion, cycle, design, detail, diagram, difference, dispute, document, doorbell, doubt, dozen, dress, effect, effort, electricity, elevator, enemy, energy, episode, evening, excitement, exercise, faith, feast, flight, flock, flood, flute, friend, fur, furniture, galaxy, garment, ginger, grain, gravity, grease, groom, hardware, idea, income, insect, instrument, laughter, laundry, leadership, licence, luxury, magician, magnet, manager, marvel, matter, message, midnight, mischief, motor, mountain, notice, number, ocean, opinion, paw, peak, pigeon, planet, proof, puzzle, queue, reality, reflection, revise, rocket, rule, scent, scholar, science, scientist, seesaw, shelter, skill, sleet, soil, spring, sprout, stallion, stamp, stomach, straw, stream, subtraction, surfing, sword, talent, team, telescope, tower, treasure, truth, tunnel, twelve, universe, vegetarian, vehicle, village, warmth, washroom, wizard, wonder, yard
Miscellaneous: acceptable, across, again, airplane, already, among, another, available, backpack, below, birthday, camping, daybreak, eighth, elbow, many, neither, slight, some, upstairs, watchful
Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Class 1. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 3
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 3
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
Environment: creature, forest, habitat, herd, insect, plateau, pollution, radish, region, stream, structure, thunder, turnip, vegetable
Transport and Communication : adapter, cruise, desktop, dumper, ferry, helicopter, journey, keyboard, laptop, mobile, monitor, railway, ship, steamer, vehicle
Body: activity, muscle, waist
Sports: badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, cricket, hockey, karate, tennis
Emotions/Requests/Apology/Greetings: angry, contempt, contentment, crying, disgust, excitement, fear, happiness, joy, sadness, surprise, trust
Quantity: fortnight, hundred, plenty, thousand, twelve, various
Masculine and Feminine: actor-actress, author-authoress, brother-sister, bull-cow, father-mother, gander-goose, gentleman-lady, god-goddess, grandfather-grandmother, hunter-huntress, husband-wife, king-queen, landlord-landlady, lion-lioness, peacock-peahen, prince-princess, son-daughter, tiger-tigress, uncle-aunt, waiter-waitress
Prefix: co(exist, pilot, etc.), dis(honest, like, etc.), en(large, case, etc.), in(ability, active, etc.), non(sense, etc.), pre(paid, view, etc.), re(discover, do, etc.), sub(title, etc.), tele(vision, etc.), tri(angle, etc.), un(friendly, happy, etc.)
Suffix (age, ed, ied, ful, ly): break(age), cover(age), marr(age), percent(age), post(age), laugh(ed), talk(ed), walk(ed), carr(ied), hurr(ied), stud(ied), worr(ied), cheer(ful), harm(ful), thank(ful), play(ful), brave(ly), kind(ly), lone(ly), love(ly), slow(ly)
Adjectives: active, actual, afraid, ancient, angry, annoyed, annual, attractive, average, bold, boring, brilliant, bushy, certain, childish, clever, comfortable, continuous, courage, coward, creeping, creeping, curly, decorative, delicate, destructive, difficult, disgusted, distant, domestic, elegant, energetic, enormous, entire, expert, fairness, fatal, fierce, foolish, fortunate, funny, funny, gloomy, gradual, gross, harmful, harsh, heavy, heavy, important, impossible, intelligent, interesting, lean, lively, loose, lovely, loyal, magnificent, magnificent, married, merry, mighty, mischievous, nice, opposite, personal, playful, plump, precious, pretty, primary, quick, rare, realistic, responsible, retro, ribbed , sensitive, separate, shiny, silent, silly, slippery, sorry, square, stale, stormy, suitable, suitable, swift, thick, thirsty, thirsty, tired, toothless, unable, unhappy, whole, worried, worst, wrong, young
Adverbs: angrily, beautifully, carefully, cheerfully, completely, correctly, definitely, entirely, extremely, fearfully, happily, heavily, lazily, lifelessly, opposite, perhaps, proudly, silently, smoothly, suddenly, surely, totally
Verbs: absorb, accuse, ache, acquire, admire, admit, adopt, advise, afford, amuse, annoy, appeal, appear, approach, arrange, arrange, attract, avoid, believe, belong, blame, blink, bore, borrow, bother, bounce, burrow, calculate, capture, carve, celebrate, chase, climb, cling, collect, confess, confuse, congratulate, consider, consist, contain, convince, crawl, damage, decay, decide, defend, digest, disappear, discuss, disdain, divide, drive, enable, enlarge, escape, examine, excite, execute, expand, explode, explore, finish, flare, forgive, frighten, frown, frown, frustrate, glide, grasp, guess, happen, happen, harm, haul, hurt, identify, imitate, improve, intend, laugh, launch, leave, listen, locate, lose, mumble, observe, perform, plunder, pounce, predict, prevent, quarrel, raised, recall, receive, rely, require, require, reside, reverse, revive, scatter, scold, scream, scrub, separate, shake, shrink, sleep, smile, spoil, spoil, squat, squeeze, stretch, struggle, struggle, suppose, throw, torture, touch, treat, twist, unite, untie, wander, whisper, wink, wonder, wriggle
Synonyms: accuse-blame, advantage-benefit, alike-same, ancient-old, annoy-irritate, ask-enquire, bliss- ecstasy, buy-purchase, childish-silly, courage- bravery, garbage-trash, gigantic- huge, glitter-shiny, harsh-cruel, interesting-exciting, junk-rubbish, loyal-faithful, perfect-ideal, precious-valuable, quarrel-fight, rich-wealthy, smelly-stinking, tiny-small,
Antonyms: accuse-defend, artificial - natural, attractive - repulsive, bother-calm, broad - narrow, care- neglect, cheap- expensive, confess-deny, dawn-dusk, delicate-hard, flutter-steady, foolish-wise, fresh- stale, funny-boring, glory- shame, interesting-boring, kind-cruel, mighty-delicate, misery-happiness, prevent-allow, save- spend, scold-praise, spend-save, store- discard, tiny-big, upset-joyful,
Compound Words: aeroplane, afternoon, airport, anyway, backbone, backside, backward, blackboard, bookshelf, bookstore, bookstore, bookworm, bookworm, breakfast, campfire, candlestick, cardboard, caveman, daydream, downward, earthquake, everything, eyeball, forearm, forehead, foreword, foreword, freedom, haircut, handmade, handsome, headache, highlight, household, keyboard, keyhole, lifetime, mailbox, mailbox, marigold, moonlight, newspaper, newspaper, outcome, passport, playground, popcorn, railroad, suitcase, sunflower, sunglasses, supermarket, textbook, therefore, toothpaste, underground, uplift, upstairs, upstream, weekend, weekend, whatever
Words with Silent Letters: acquit, autumn, breathe, business, column, communication, debt, doubt, freight, high, honest, hour, knead, knife, knock, know, patient, sigh, sign, stretch, Wednesday, whistle
Double Letter Words: beer, beetle, between, cabbage, cobbler, cooking, crook, cucumber, difference, expression, feed, fellow, freeze, hobby, hood, hooked, indeed, jeep, looked, loose, passenger, pebble, puppet, room, rooster, shallow, sleeve, smooth, street, sweep, tooth, valley, volunteer, wedding, wood, woollen
Plurals: Simply by adding 's' (e.g. pencil-pencils, apple-apples, parrot-parrots, etc.), Adding 'es' to words ending in 'ch' (e.g. batch-batches, church-churches, speech-speeches, etc.), Adding 'es' to words ending in 's', 'ss', 'x' or 'sh' (e.g. bush-bushes, glass-glasses, box-boxes, wish-wishes, etc.), Adding 's' to words ending in 'y' with a vowel before (e.g. turkey-turkeys, chimney-chimneys, etc.), Replacing 'y' with 'ies' for words ending in 'y' with a consonant before (e.g. city-cities, diary-diaries, etc.), Substituting/adding letters (e.g. loaf-loaves, goose-geese, etc.)
Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): adventure, brownie, building, costume, diagram, dramatist, envelope, feather, feature, gardener, gesture, graduate, librarian, magazine, manual, nursery, phrase, rhythm, scout, shepherd, straight, treasure, triumph
Nouns: ability, action, adapt, address, adopt, advantage, advice, ambition, anecdote, anklet, anthem, appearance, appoint, appointment, artist, athlete, attention, attitude, average, bacteria, balloon, banjo, barrier, beauty, belly, blazer, blood, border, brace, brain, bribe, bridge, brief, brush, buckle, burrow, button, cable, canal, candidate, cardigan, category, celebration, challenge, champion, championship, channel, cheek, chill, circus, cleanser, climate, clock, clothing, coast, continent, costume, cottage, crayon, crew, crown, custom, daughter, dawn, device, diagram, diamond, dimple, dinner, disease, distrust, dollar, dose, dreaming, drummer, dusk, electricity, engine, eyelash, failure, fastener, flaw, fleece, gardener, gasp, globe, grace, greasy, grin, habit, health, height, individual, jewel, journey, jury, kitchen, knot, ladder, leather, library, limit, loss, machine, manager, marigold, marsh, memorial, method, milkmaid, misery, moisture, narrative, nation, necktie, negro, noise, nursery, opponent, outfit, palace, pause, peace, pearl, picnic, picture, piece, pottery, predator, process, record, recreation, remark, resident, respect, risk, scratch, signal, solution, spinster, stadium, stairs, statue, straight, straightener, strand, string, suit, sunshine, survey, swiftness, symbol, talent, theory, thrill, tragedy, trait, treasure, trouble, trumpet, ulcer, vision, voice, volunteer, wisdom, witch, wizard, wrinkle, wrist
Miscellaneous: against, almost, hundred, neither, really, somewhere, still, together, until
Section 2
It's a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words
This section will be based on the above-given word list.
Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Classes 1-2. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 4
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 4
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
Education: academic, alphabet, competition, curriculum, dialogue, discipline, experience, information, instruction, internship, jingle, knowledge, literature, recipient, scholar, scholarship, training, tuition
Science and Technology: amphibian, animation, attraction, axis, biodiversity, biosphere, bookmark, compression, creature, cyberspace, deforestation, eclipse, ecology, ecosystem, environment, epicentre, equator, evolution, firewall, genetics, geology, gravity, interface, laboratory, malware, measure, ocean, planet, processor, radiation, renewable, resistor, resource, robotics, rotation, router, satellite, scientific, server, transpiration
Clothing: blanket, slacks, sweatshirt
Aquatic Life: dugong, grouper, haddock, halibut, herring, prawn, puffin, seagull, seal, waterweed
Occupation: actress, author, blacksmith, businessman, carpenter, coach, electrician, engineer, fisherman, goldsmith, hairdresser, judge, lawyer, mason, mechanic, narrator, peon, plumber, politician, reporter, scientist, sportsman, surgeon, trainer, wrestler
Sports: archery, baseball, challenge, gymnastics, rugby, skateboarding, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling
Transport and Communication: conveyance, helicopter, motorcycle, roadway, tablet, telephone
Nouns: acceleration, activity, address, agency, agenda, agony, agreement, agriculture, alert, allowance, amount, ancestor, apartment, approach, arena, association, assumption, attitude, attraction, audience, availability, avenue, baggage, bear, beggar, benefit, blunder, building, burrow, camera, canyon, capitol, captivity, century, chamber, chapter, charity, chimney, cigarette, circular, circumstance, column, combustion, community, competition, concern, conflict, content, conversation, cottage, couch, courage, creativity, crumb, cupboard, curiosity, dawn, decision, delight, delivery, design, desire, dinosaur, disaster, discussion, distress, dusk, ease, emphasis, entrance, equator, equipment, evening, executive, explorer, fearlessness, fiction, fleece, focus, fright, frontier, gain, garden, gasoline, generosity, gesture, government, grocery, ground, group, guilt, hardship, host, impact, innocent, janitor, kingdom, kneecap, label, lack, lad, laughter, legislature, leisure, limb, magnetism, maintenance, master, mattress, meadow, menace, minority, mistrust, monster, mountain, necessity, noise, novelist, octopus, orchard, ounce, pesticide, pioneer, pleasure, portion, practice, pride, qualifier, quarter, quest, quietness, quilt, refugee, represent, response, routine, seasoning, shame, shield, slumber, sorrow, source, sow, sow, spirit, squad, storm, surface, terror, threat, tornado, tour, tradition, vacation, variety, venture, visitor, voyage, vulture, weekend, wizard, world
Prefix: auto(close, pilot, etc.), dis(obey, respect, etc.), fore(cast, head, etc.), im(port, possible, etc.), in(ability, definite, etc.), mid(life, way, etc.), mis(behave, fortune, understand, etc.), pre(cast, determine, etc.), re(build, call, discover, etc.), semi(automatic, circle, final, etc.), sub(marine, merge, etc.), un(aware, close, conscious, etc.), uni(directional, lateral, etc.), dis(order, appoint, allow, agree, courage, lodge, belief, continue, honest, respect, etc.) sub(tract, marine, way, etc.), de(generate, fuse, etc.), un(fair, sure, even, known, believable, necessary, less, etc.), tri(cycle, pod, etc.)
Suffix (able, al, ance, ant, ence, est, ful, ial, ion, ish, ize, less, ly, st): agree(able), present(able), reach(able), depend(able), comfort(able), accident(al), origin(al), politic(al), rent(al), natur(al), accept(ance), perform(ance), account(ant), contest(ant), differ(ence), exist(ence), refer(ence), infer(ence), fast(est), high(est), low(est), delight(ful), financ(ial), part(ial), president(ial), prevent(ion), child(ish), general(ize), modern(ize), hope(less), hopeful(ly), natural(ly), pleasant(ly), adamant(ly), bad(ly), simple(st), apart(ment), agree(ment), govern(ment), enjoy(ment), treat(ment), manage(ment), excite(ment), king(dom), free(dom), star(dom), bore(dom), skill(ful), usual(ly), rest(less), worth(less), wit(ness),
Adjectives: accurate, aggressive, airborne, alien, alive, annual, anxious, appropriate, ashamed, asleep, attentive, attentive, attractive, awake, aware, awkward, basic, beautiful, blind, brief, brilliant, capable, carefree, circular, complete, confusing, considerable, consistent, creative, critical, cruel, deliberate, delicious, depressing, description, destructive, disastrous, doubtful, dramatic, eager, educational, efficient, entire, entire, equal, essential, essential, exact, expensive, exterior, extraordinary, flexible, fluent, fragile, frequent, furious, genius, genuine, giant, graceful, greedy, guilty, handsome, harsh, heroic, heroic, horrible, humble, impossible, instant, intelligent, interior, invisible, invisible, inward, mature, melodic, modest, noble, outstanding, parallel, patient, peculiar, peculiar, plentiful, pointless, polite, precious, queer, recent, scary, secure, several, severe, shabby, shabby, shallow, solitary, spare, strange, sturdy, terrible, tidy, timid, tragic, typical, useful, usual, vacant, vast, visible
Adverbs: absolutely, accurately, adoringly, awkwardly, beneath, brutally, certainly, frequently, never, positively, previously, quickly, rapidly, urgently, warmly, wishfully
Verbs: accelerate, accept, accomplish, accuse, accuse, adapt, adopt, afford, agree, announce, announce, appreciate, argue, arrest, ascend, assign, assist, associate, attempt, believe, blame, blend, blossom, breathe, buckle, calculate, cancel, chatter, cheer, chirp, collapse, combat, communicate, communicate, comprehend, concentrate, concern, conclude, confuse, congratulate, congratulate, consider, continue, contribute, convince, create, debate, decide, defy, deliver, demonstrate, descend, develop, disclose, discuss, distract, elope, emerge, entertain, envy, estimate, exclaim, exist, expect, frighten, fumble, gasp, gather, gaze, gleam, graze, grind, guess, hail, increase, indicate, inspire, irritate, manufacture, mock, negotiate, obey, observe, permit, plead, pour, practise, preach, predict, prefer, prepare, proceed, quarrel, recommend, rectify, reduce, release, remind, represent, request, rescue, resist, retreat, reveal, scroll, search, shatter, sneeze, spread, squabble , squeeze, starve, strive, suppose, surf, surprise, survive, swallow, tickle, twirl, twitch , understand, urge, verify, whisper, whistle, withdraw
Synonyms: ability-capacity, bliss- pleasure, cease-stop, firm-strong, freedom- liberty, gather-collect, giggle-laugh, hermit- recluse, honest-faithful, horrible-terrible, interesting-exciting, mistake-error, opportunity-chance, plenty-abundance, reject-deny, reward-prize, round-circular, sincere-honest, stable-fixed, unfortunate-unlucky, wonderful-amazing, wrong-incorrect
Antonyms: bitter-sweet, decline-accept, defend-harm, definite-indefinite, domestic- wild, exterior-interior, fail-succeed, forever-never, fortunate-unfortunate, gloomy-cheerful, greedy-charitable, healthy-diseased, intentional-accidental, merry-serious, patient-agitated, polite-rude, present- absent, punishment- reward, relax-stress, strange-familiar, triumph-fail, ugly-beautiful
Compound Words: automobile, beehive, beehive, birthday, blackmail, bodyguard, bookcase, bookworm, brainstorm, briefcase, briefcase, childbirth, copyright, crossword, earthquake, farmhouse, farmyard, father-in-law, fingerprint, forecast, french fry, full moon, hallway, hardware, hillside, ice cream, meanwhile, moonlight, newscast, notebook, railroad, raincoat, thunderstorm, toothpaste, video game, waistcoat, wheelchair, wonderland
Words with Silent Letters: ballet, bridge, champagne, colleague, column, edge, foreign, grudge, guard, heir, island, knit, knot, length, neighbour, often, receipt, strength, though, tongue, wrist
Double Letter Words: across, button, clatter, gossip, hurry, illicit, lagoon, loot, mammal, messy, offend, possible, programme, saddle, seepage, spree, summary, syllabus, tariff
Masculine and Feminine: bachelor-maid, bridegroom-bride, dog-bitch, drake-duck, drone-bee, duke-duchess, emperor-empress, heir-heiress, hero-heroine, horse-mare, host-hostess, master-mistress, nephew-niece, poet-poetess, policeman-policewoman, priest-priestess, widower-widow, wizard-witch
Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): accommodation, address, admittance, ancestor, anxiety, aquarium, bachelor, beginning, committee, computer, disappoint, necessary, plentiful, safety, trespass
Miscellaneous: afterwards, altogether, commonly, degree, instead
Section 2
It's a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words
This section will be based on the above-given word list.
Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Classes 1-3. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 5
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 5
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
STEM Words: appliance, astronomy, atmosphere, broadcasting, canyon, celestial, communication, cosmic, cosmogony, cosmography, crust, degradation, density, electricity, equipment, erosion, extinct, gadget, galaxy, glacier, gravitation, joystick, landmass, livelihood, loam, magma, membrane, microscope, organism, oxygen, revolution, species, toxic, visual, wildlife
Household Items: bedding, blanket, blender, blower, bookcase, ceiling, conditioner, dryer, geyser, mattress, microwave, refrigerator, utensil
Agriculture: agronomy, biofuel, breeding, cereal, decomposition, domestication, drought, fertilizer, gardening, harvest, insecticide, peasant, plantation, poultry, textile
Government Affairs: account, allegiance, article, balance, ballot, budget, cabinet, census, chronicle, chronology, constitution, coordination, court, executive, freedom, judiciary, legislative, liberty, parliament, president, procedure, resemble, strategy
Occupation: accountant, architect, assistant astronomer, beautician, carpenter, chauffeur, engineer, hairdresser, historian, journalist, magician, musician
Words from Diary of a Wimpy Kid : appetite, bouquet, brace, catalogue, complicate, considerate, disappoint, dismantle, embarrass, extinguisher, journal, popularity, ridiculous, scramble, scratch, worthless
Prefix: anti(biotic, dote, etc.) de(escalate, frost, value, etc.) il(legal, logical, etc.), im(possible, etc.), ir(responsible, etc.), mono(chrome, tone, etc.), pre(determine, fix, etc.), re(affirm, discover, turn, etc.), semi(circle, final, etc.), super(star, etc.), trans(port, etc.), tri(cycle, etc.), dis(allow, agree, appear, appoint, connect, comfort, cord, count, cover, lodge, locate, trust, etc.), in(fection, terim, vention, etc.) im(perfect), un(wrap, broken, tangle, etc.)
Suffix (able, age, al, ant, ate, cy, en, ful, ian, ic, ion): accept(able), prevent(able), pilgrim(age), wreck(age), nature(al), vigil(ant), affection(ate), accurate(cy), candidate(cy), strength(en), wonder(ful), library(ian), magic(ian), alcohol(ic), workahol(ic), create(ion), narrate(ion), care(fully), thought(ful), prob(ably), enjoy(ment), advertise(ment), assess(ment), assign(ment), assist(ant), adapta(tion), valid(ity), conspire(acy), adequ(acy), fall(acy), deni(al), remedy(al), tri(al), enorm(ity), abnormal(lity), accountabi(lity), extreme(ity), companion(ship)
Adjectives: abandoned, abnormal, absolute, academic, adjacent, adoring, aggressive, aggressive, ambitious, analytical, ancient, annual, apparent, apparent, apprehensive, appropriate, approximate, approximate, artistic, ashamed, assertive, athletic, attractive, available, baggy, bankrupt, bare, bashful, benevolent, bereft, biodegradable, blissful, boisterous, bountiful, bridal, brilliant , brilliant, brisk, caring, cautious, challenging, clumsy, collateral, comfortable, commercial, compassionate, compatible, competitive, comprehensive, comprehensive, compulsive, compulsory, confident, conservative, conservative, consistent, constant, contagious, contemporary, continent, contrary, controversial, convenient, corporate, cosmic, courageous, courteous, crucial, curious, cynical, dazzling, decisive, defiant, delicate, delighted, desperate, desperate, devastated, devout , different, diffident, digital, disastrous, disposable, disposable, disposable, distinct, distinctive, divorced, dizzy, dominant, domineering, drained, dreadful, drowsy, eager, eligible, elite, embarrassed, emotional, endangered, entangled, equivalent, essential, ethnic, exact, excellent, excellent, excitable , excited, extinct, faithful, familiar, famished, faulty, feeble, ferocious, fiscal, frightened, frightening, frigid, frozen, frustrated, furious, gaudy, generous, generous, genuine , gigantic, gigantic, gleeful, grateful, grateful, gregarious, gullible, hazy, hearty, herbal, hilarious, horrifying, immense, impatient, imperative, impressive, inappropriate, incredible, incredible, independent, industrious, intricate, intrinsic, laxative, loyal, medicinal, mediocre, miniature, mournful, necessary, negligent, noble, nonchalant, numerous, obsolete, opaque, original, passionate, portable, primitive, primitive, profane, progressive, prosperous, radical, rare, realistic, reliable, remarkable, remedial, respective, return, satisfactory, savage, scared, secondary, senseless, severe, shrewd, slender, slippery, societal, sole, solitary, solitary, southern, speechless, squalid, stern, sustainable, technical, thrifty, tolerable, transparent, uneasy, unique, virtual, visual, voluntary, wealthy, weird
Adverbs: adoringly, awkwardly, clumsily, competitively, decisively, easily, everywhere, normally, really, regularly, repeatedly, sometimes, terribly, timidly, usually
Nouns: accent, accommodation, administration, admission, admittance, advertisement, alliance, allusion, ambulance, amity, amusement, analyst, ancestor, anger, annoyance, antithesis, appearance, architecture, argument, assertion, assessment, assignment, assumption, atmosphere, attendance, attorney, aural, avalanche, avenue, bacterium, badge, banger, banquet, blizzard, blockade, blunder, boyhood, bracelet, bribery, bridle, bristle, broccoli, brochure, bruise, bureau, butcher, campaign, candidate, capitalist, captain, career, castle, casualty, cathedral, celebration, celery, century, ceremony, chamber, chancellor, character, charity, charity, chemical, claim, clarity, closure, cluster, colleague, colleague, collision, comfort, community, companion, comparison, competition, competitor, completion, complexity, component, compost, compressor, compulsion, comrade, concept, concern, conference, conference, confession, confession, conflict, conjunction, conscience, constitution, contempt, contentment, contentment, convention, corridor, courage, courtesy, criterion, criterion, cultivation, curfew, curiosity, dearth, decade, dedication, default, defendant, deficient, definition, delegate, delusion, democracy, depression, description, dessert, destination, device, diagram, dietician, difference, digestion, diploma, diplomat, disappointment, disaster, disciple, discipline, discord, discrepancy, disposition, divorce, documentary, droplet, drowning , eagerness, economist, ecstasy, efficacy, embarrassment, emergency, emptiness, enjoyment, enthusiasm, envy, equation, eruption, eruption, exception, excitement, exclamation, existence, expedition, experiment, explanation, faculty, fascination, flora, fraternity, freak, frustration, fundraiser, generation, glare, gratitude, guarantee, guardian, guilt, habitat, havoc, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hurricane, illustration, immigrant, inclusion, inheritance, institution, intelligence, intermission, inventor, island, isolation, journey, language, laughter, lavender, league, length, lightning, literacy, literature, livestock, mammal, marathon, melody, menace, merriment, message, military, minority, mischief, misery, monarch, museum, myth, necessity, numeral, occasion, orphan, pamphlet, panel, panic, parade, paradise, parallel, pasture, patent, paternity, pathogen, pathology, pauper, pause, period, permit, personification, phobia, pleasure, porridge, portrait, possibility, poverty, premium, president, priority, projection, protection, psychologist, purification, puzzle, queue, quotation, recipient, reference , reign, rejoice, relevance, relief, retailer, retention, revolt, routine, satire, scenery, schedule, scheme, scissors, sentiment, sentiment, separation, shelter, sheriff, solitary, sovereign, specialist, statistics, stomach, strategy, substitute, suspicion, sweater, tendency, territory, tornado, trail, trailer, traitor, traitor, utility, vaccine, variant, violence, weight, worship
Verbs: abandon, abdicate, abhor, accelerate, accustom, acknowledge, acquit, advertise, affirm, amass, amend, approach, assemble, astound, bathe, batter, begrudge, behold, belittle, besiege, blaze, blister, blossom, bother, brighten, capture, cherish, chew, collapse, combat, concede, commute, compete, compress, conceal, concentrate, conclude, concoct, condone, contaminate, contribute, convince, criticize, debug, decline, dedicate, deduct, defuse, delight, demolish, demonstrate, descend, detain, devastate, dictate, diffuse, digest, distinguish, distrust, diverge, emerge, enact, encourage, ensure, entitle, escalate, evade, evaluate, exasperate, exhibit explode, express, flourish, forward, foster, glitter, grasp, grizzle, hinder, illuminate, illuminate, include, intrigue, invigilate, lodge, mandate, migrate, navigate, possess, predict, preserve, prohibit, provoke, purchase, quarrel, reassure, receive, recognize, rehearse, reproach, repudiate, respond, restrict, revive, separate, shiver, sparkle, sponsor, squeeze, stare, strengthen, suffocate, surround, sympathize, transfix, wander, whisper
Synonyms: aberrant- deviating, admit-confess, affable- cordial, alike-same, artisan-craftsman, barren-infertile, blunder-mistake, bruise-injury, callous- insensitive, coarse-rough, congenial- sociable, continue-progress, create-invent, credulous-gullible, crumble-collapse, deceive- bluff, delicious-tasty, depart-leave, elegant-graceful, fascinate-attract, fierce-violent, grumpy-irritable, humble-respectful, insight-perception, judicious- cautious, lethargy- idleness, mirth-happiness, obedient-respectful, religious-spiritual, significance-importance, thrill-excitement
Antonyms: abandon- possess, artificial-natural, ascend-descend, attractive-repulsive, beautiful-ugly, bitter-sweet, bravery-cowardice, brazen- modest, brighten-fade, broad-narrow, bully-boost, clumsy-graceful, command-assist, copious- sparse, cruel-compassionate, diabolic-angelic, frighten-comfort, hinder-allow, imperious- humble, innocence- culpability, miserable- jolly, plump-skinny, plunder-protect, protest-agree, regard-ignore, respect- despise, studious-lethargic, tempt-discourage, tremble-calm
Proverbs: A bad workman always blames his tools, A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step, Actions speak louder than words, Adversity and loss make a man wise, All that glitters is not gold, An empty vessel makes much noise, An idle brain is the devil’s workshop, Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, Early bird catches the worm, Every cloud has a silver lining, Every man is the architect of his destiny, Fortune favours the brave, Good things come to those who wait, Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, Necessity is the mother of invention, The pen is mightier than the sword, There is no time like the present, To gain something you have to lose something
Idioms: a dime a dozen, a penny saved is a penny earned, a piece of cake, an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth, barking up the wrong tree, between the devil and the deep blue sea, bite off more than you can chew, blow your own trumpet, burn the candle at both ends, eat like a horse, give someone the benefit of the doubt, head in the clouds, in the same breath, keep someone at arm’s length, left out in the cold, once in a blue moon, pay someone back in his/her own coin, see eye to eye, sell like hot cakes, small cog in a large wheel, take away your breath
Compound Words: armchair, babysitter, babysitter, backfield, background, backhand, backstage, backtrack, backward, backyard, barefoot, basketball blackmail, blueberry, bookbinder, bookkeeper, bootstrap, brainstorm, brainstorm, campfire, candlestick, caretaker, caveman, chairperson, championship, cornmeal, countdown, countdown, counterpart, counterpart, countryside, courtyard, courtyard, crossover, daredevil, dashboard, daytime, dishwasher, downstairs, eardrum, fingernail, flowerpot, guard lighthouse, meanwhile, pancake, popcorn, rail, roommate, roundabout, skateboard, somewhere, spokesperson, successful, suitcase, therefore, underdog, understood
Homonyms & Homophones: accept-except, addition-edition, allowed-aloud, ate-eight, bale-bail, band-bend, break-brake, ceiling-sealing, cellar-seller, cell-sell, cite-site, dear-deer, die-dye, dual-duel, fair-fare, new-knew
Words with Silent Letters: align, ascend, assign, autumn, badge, campaign, Christmas, crescent, cupboard, design, edge, foreign, hustle, kneel, knob, psychology, resign, wreck, wrinkle
Double Letter Words: annul, append, baggage, broom, deed, errand, esteem, heed, hull, immune, juggle, luggage, rugged, savvy
Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): achievement, catastrophe, compassion, description, etiquette, guardian, isthmus, mischief, mosquito, orchestra, repetition, restaurant, sanctuary, trumpet, variety
Miscellaneous: angrily, arguably, backward, beneath, except, occasionally, perhaps, quietly specifically, steadily
Section 2
It's a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the above-given word list.
Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Classes 1-4. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
Spell Bee Competition Syllabus for Class 6
Level 1 : For Level 1 , about 80% of questions will come from the word list below.
Level 2 : If you reach Level 2 , then we believe that you are really good with your spellings. Hence, we are not providing any word list for the Level 2 exam. We would love to see you compete with your peers across India and abroad, and give a brilliant performance.
Section 1: Spell Bee Competition Words for Class 6
Variety of questions based on the following word list. Different format of questions are available here .
STEM Words: agrarian, apiculture, artery, bone, cartilage, conservation, conversation, cowshed, cultivation, cultivator, deforestation, equipment, exploitation, farmland, femur, ferry, fishery, freight, funnel, galaxy, gland, haulage, horticulture, husbandry, immunology, intestine, irrigation, kidney, ligament, liver, livestock, logistics, malnutrition, manure, measure, meteorology, nerve, observatory, pancreas, pasture, peninsula, pesticide, petroleum, pipette, plateau, plough, pollution, portable, preservation, printer, sandpaper, scanner, seismology, shipment, shuttle, skeleton, skull, spleen, stylus, telecommunication, tissue, vertebrate
Professionals/Doctors: anaesthesiologist, cardiologist, collector, dermatologist, gynaecologist, mathematician, nephrologist, neurologist, obstetrician, oncologist, ophthalmologist, otolaryngologist, pastor, paediatrician, pharmacist, professor, psychiatrist, radiologist, receptionist, veterinarian, waitress
Government and Economy: amendment, census, citizenship, debt, defence, demonstration, document, election, electorate, executive, government, representative, troupe
Education: guidance, literacy, pedagogy, progress, schooling, vocabulary, vocation
Words from Diary of a Wimpy Kid : blubber, campaign, demonstrate, extinguisher, gimmick, Halloween, intelligence, legitimate, neighbourhood, pretzel, sarcastic, treasurer, underneath
Prefix: ante(date, etc.), de(motivate, etc.), dis(integrate, etc.), epi(dermis, etc.), fore(word, etc.), hyper(active, etc.), im(patient, etc.), main(land, etc.), mis(interpret, etc.), omni(potent, etc.), para(dox, etc.), re(unite, etc.), semi(conscious, etc.), sub(merge, etc.), thermo(meter, etc.), under(graduate, etc.), up(bringing, etc.), un(desirable, abashed, abated, abridged, principled, etc.) re(former, try, etc.) in(sufficient, ability, accuracy, activity, action, etc.), dis(abuse, ablement, junction, honest, etc.)
Suffix (acy, al, ary, gamy, hood, ial, ist, ment, ship): fall(acy), accident(al), fiction(al), region(al), second(ary), poly(gamy), child(hood), mother(hood), editor(ial), hero(ism), art(ist), accomplish(ment), refine(ment), scholar(ship), grate(ful), dread(ful), appear(ance), perform(ance), national(ity), acknowledge(ment), express(ion), remark(able), achieve(ment), endur(ance), amuse(ment), arrange(ment), annoy(ance), regret(fully), regrett(able), regret(ful), access(ible), transfer(able), impression(able), accept(able), friendli(ness), friendless, friend(ly), require(ment)
Adjectives: abundant, acceptable, acceptance, accessible, accompany , advantageous, adventurous, aggressive, agricultural, amiable, ample, ancient, anonymous, antique, anxious, apparent, apparent, arid, arrogant, barren, bemused, beneficial, biodegradable, biological, bizarre, boisterous, burning, burnt , cautious, challenging, changeable, chronological, civic, classic, climactic , clumsy, comfortable, commercial, compact, competent, complicated, concise, conspicuous, constant, contagious, contemporary, continuous, convenient, cordial, courageous, courteous , crowded, cumulative, cunning, curious, dangerous, defiant, delicious, dense, desperate, desperate, diligent, dimension, disastrous, distinct, distinguished, drastic, educative, eerie, efficient, embarrassing, enthusiastic, equivalent, ethical, ethnic, ethnic, excellent, extinct, extraordinary, extraordinary, fabulous, faithful, federal, federal, feeble, feminine, fierce, flamboyant, floral, forbidden, fundamental, further, futile, gaseous, generous, glamorous, handsome, haughty, hazardous, hilarious, hoarse, horrible, hostile, imaginative, immanent, immediate, immense, imminent, indecisive, indulgent, inept, inevitable, ingenious, innocent, interim, interior, jealous, jovial, languid, legislative, lethal, literal, massive, maximum, meagre, mediocre, mere, mischievous, miserable, monotonous, naturalistic, nervous, nimble , noisy, numerous, obstinate, onward, operational, optimistic, partial, popular, powerful, precious, precise, preferable, preliminary, primitive, proclaim, professional, prominent, puny, recyclable, redundant, reluctant, remote, resolute, rhythmic, rigorous, rural, rustic, sanitary, satisfactory, scientific, significant, solar, spacious, splendid, squeaky, squeaky, stationary, studious, stylish, subsequent, superior, suspicious, swollen, systematic, tangible, treacherous, unanimous, unbelievable, undernourished, unique, unique, unitary, unruly, unsuccessful, unsustainable, urban, vague, vibrant, vital
Adverbs: accidentally, alternatively, consequently, desperately, especially, immediately, internally, obviously, scarcely, separately, sincerely
Nouns: abortion, abroad, access, acknowledgement, acquaintance, admiration, adolescent, adventure, advertising, advocate, aggravation, agony, alimony, allegiance, allergy, alliance, alternative, ambition, amendment, anecdote, anguish, anguish, anxiety, apparel, appliance, aquifer, arena, aristocracy, assent, assumption, attorney, audience, authority, bankruptcy, bankruptcy, bard, bartender, beacon, bibliography, biodiversity, bough, boulevard, breath, butcher, capability, capacity, caravan, caution, ceiling, cemetery, ceremony, chamber, choir, chunk, citation, clarification, clarity, climate, coalition, commander, commentary, commerce, commoner, component, composure, concentration, conclusion, confectioner, conflict, consensus, consent, consequence, conservationist, contentment , context, controversy, convenience, convention, convoy, correspondent, couplet, coupon, crisis, defendant, deluge, descendant, despair, dialogue, discretion, discrimination, disgust, dissent, distinction, diversity, dynasty, echo , edition, effectiveness, elegy, elevator, emergency, emigration, enterprise, environmentalist, equipment, esteem, ethics, excess, excuse, executive, existence, expanse, expedition , experience, exploration, explosion, exposure, extinction, fantasy, faucet, fence, freckle, genre, gesture, glimpse, governor, gratitude, grief, guilty, habitat, hairdryer, hangar, harmony, headache, hive, hoax, hygiene, hyphen, illusion, independence, influence, ingenious, ingredient, injury, innovation, intermission, investigation, invitation, judiciary, kennel, kiosk, knack, league, leeway, legislation, leisure, liberty, likeness, locality , longevity, majority, manor, marriage, mechanic, migration, mileage, millionaire, miniature, minute, misery , missile, morale, museum, myth, nobility, nursery , obstacle, omniscient, onset, optimism, orchestra, paragraph, parody, patient, peak, pedestrian, penalty, phantom, pharmacist, poverty, predicament, preface, prejudice, pressure, priority, psychology, quest, questionnaire, refuge, remorse, requirement, rogue , sailor, salvage, sanctuary, sapling, siege, significance, situation, souvenir, specification, spree, subordinate, superintendent, surface, swarm, sword, tannery, teaspoon, terrain, thorn, trait, trophy, variety, vault, vegetable, verdict, verdict, verge, villain, violence, volley, vow, wrinkle
Verbs: abandon, abstain, accommodate, accommodate, accomplish, accumulate, acknowledge, acquire, adapt, adhere, adjourn, afford, anticipate, anticipate, appeal, appoint, ascend, attribute, blemish, boycott, breathe, capture, cheapen, collaborate, collapse, collide, commend, compose, compromise , concede, conquer, conserve, contaminate, crackle, cringe, crouch, cultivate, deceive, demonstrate, deplete, deposit, designate, deteriorate, diminish, disassemble, dissemble, dissolve, distinguish, dominate, dwell, elaborate, elude, embitter, embolden, engrave, enhance, envy, escape, evaporate, evolve, exaggerate, exaggerate, excel, excel, exhibit, exhort, exploit, express, falter, faze , finance, flaunt, gaze, grimace, guarantee, hammer, harness, ignite, immigrate, improvise, interrogate, interrupt, intimidate, liberate, license, linger, loathe, lure, manipulate, marvel, mesmerise, mimic, misbehave, mumble, neglect, negotiate, originate, perceive , permeate, persecute, persuade, persuade, plummet, plunder, possess, predict, propel, prosecute, prosper, provoke, pursue, quiver, quote, recount, reinforce, respite, restrain, retaliate, retrieve, shudder, snore, soothe, sprinkle, sprout, squawk, straggle, strive, struggle, supplement, terminate, transform, transform, transport, vacate, vaccinate, vacillate, vanquish, wreathe, wrestle, yarn, yield
Synonyms: abstinence- sobriety, affinity- accord, bewilder-perplex, conscious-aware, dilapidated- shabby, disciple-follower, embellish-decorate, evoke- stimulate, fatigue-tiredness, gratitude-thankful, hilarious- hysterical, humility-humble, persuade-convince, scatter-disperse, unlucky-unfortunate
Antonyms: admonish- acclaim, afflict-please, applaud-blame, bliss- agony, compulsory-voluntary, courage-cowardice, courteous-discourteous, desperate- hopeful, desultory- methodical, embarrass-delight, generous-stingy, impervious- penetrable, important-trivial, servile-dominant
Proverbs: A bad excuse is better than none at all, A drowning man will clutch at a straw, A fool may earn money, but it takes a wise man to spend it, A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile, A man in debt is caught in a net, A rolling stone gathers no moss, A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never, An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Appearances can be deceptive, Barking dogs seldom bite, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick, Cowards die many times before their death, Discretion is the better part of valour, Don’t place all your eggs in one basket, Familiarity breeds contempt, Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
Idioms: a blessing in disguise, a flash in the pan, birds of a feather flock together, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, don't cry over spilt milk, drag one’s feet, face the music, get a taste of your own medicine, go against the grain, hand in glove, hold your horses, move heaven and earth, play devil's advocate, the devil is in the details, the elephant in the room, there's no such thing as a free lunch, turn a deaf ear, when pigs fly
Compound Words: adjustable, backspace, bulkhead, changeable, comfortable, considerable, disagreement, farmhouse, farmyard, fashionable, framework, full moon, gallstone, gearshift, handcuff, headquarters, honeycomb, honourable, keystroke, moreover, noticeable, omnipotent, pay check, quarrelsome, serviceable, shortbread, sundown, sunstroke, superego, tailcoat, turnkey, unbelievable, undercharge, undercover, upmarket, upstream, warfare, warlike, washboard, widespread
Homonyms & Homophones : alter-altar, compliment- complement, course-coarse, elicit-illicit, eminent-imminent, flower-flour, grown-groan, hoarse-horse, loan-lone, match-match, meddle-medal, meet-meat, pale-pail, peace-piece, principle-principal, weak-week
Words with Silent Letters: apostle, circuit, colonel, consign, diaphragm, feign, gnaw, hedge, hymn, knuckle, pneumonia, raspberry, wrestle, yolk
Double Letter Words: allegiance, applaud, battalion, battalion, brilliant, dissolve, illusion, illustration, obsession, occasion, occult, seer, skiing, strolling, summit, unforgettable, upkeep, webbed
Evil Words (Words likely to be spelt incorrectly): gaggle, obstacle, optimism, precipitation, renaissance, scrubber, shoal
Section 2
It's a Rapid Fire section wherein students would be required to listen to audio and write the spellings of the words.
This section will be based on the above-given word list.
Note: The syllabus will also include Word List from Classes 1-5. Upto 20% of the questions may have words outside of the above list. For any improvements or suggestions, do write to us at info@crestolympiads.com .
Sample Paper
Marking Scheme
