10th Grade Spelling Words
Here are 100 difficult 10th Grade Spelling Words that will test your kids. (Teachers and parents may also find them challenging!) When your student can use and spell these difficult terms, they will become more confident in their writing and speaking!
Scan the list to see if YOU know words like anathema, belvedere, intransigence, obdurate, and tripartite!
List of Spelling Words
abalone
aberrant
absenteeism
accelerator
agog
amorphous
ampere
anachronistic
anathema
apocryphal
arboreal
arcana
assiduous
atrophy
attenuate
auspices
autonomous
ballyhoo
beguiling
belvedere
bicuspid
biennial
bravura
cacophony
carcinogen
cervine
colloquial
comestible
commensurate
concierge
contemporaneous
convivial
corollary
cumbrous
delineate
despotism
disenfranchise
echelon
eclectic
emigrant
encyclical
fallacious
filibuster
fungible
gazpacho
gazetteer
gimmicky
ignominy
imperturbable
incontrovertible
incredulously
indomitable
intransigence
kefir
knickknack
kuchen
largesse
lederhosen
lintel
modicum
myrrh
narcissus
neckerchief
neophyte
neurosis
nunnery
obdurate
obstetrician
opacity
opaqueness
operetta
oxymoron
parallelogram
pegmatite
pejorative
penumbra
perfunctory
pertinacious
piscatorial
poultice
rampageous
recalcitrant
restaurateur
reticular
sacrilegious
sauerbraten
sobriquet
surreptitiously
sycophantic
thievery
tremolo
trichinosis
tripartite
troika
turducken
unconscionable
unpronounceable
virulent
vociferous
zoophyte
In addition to learning to spell the words above, students should also learn their meanings, pronunciations and correct usages. Spelling is just the start of complete language learning!
Teaching Tips and Tricks
Use our list of 10th grade spelling words for classroom quizzes and competitions, games and worksheets. We have free spelling lessons that can help you learn or teach some of these tricky words.
This page displays word lists for 10th graders. The lists contain academic terms for the arts and spelling words, both of which are necessary vocabulary for 10th grade studies. Students in grade 10 often have a sufficient vocabulary for everyday use. However, for a variety of reasons, some of them wish to learn more difficult vocabulary.
