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I resisted having a Spelling category for many years; I suspected that there may be too many potential words to make it worthwhile (because you can never hope to get a list that's anywhere near complete). Also, in a Quiz League format (where, if one team gives the wrong answer, it's passed over to the other team for a bonus) they don't work so well because often there are rarely more than two or three possible answers.
But spelling questions are always popular (it was one of the eight first-round categories in Bullseye, after all) and it happens to be a favourite subject of mine personally.
I think what follows is an interesting selection. Try checking these with Bully:
ACCELERATE | ACCIDENTALLY | ACCOMMODATE | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | ACQUAINTANCE |
ACQUIESCE | ACQUIT | ANALYSIS | ANTIMACASSAR | ANTIRRHINUM |
ASCETICISM | AUTOCHTHONOUS | BELLWETHER | BOUGAINVILLEA | BOURGEOISIE |
BROCCOLI | BUREAUCRAT | CEMETERY | CHIHUAHUA | CHLOROPHYLL |
CHRYSANTHEMUM | COLLOQUIAL | COMMEMORATE | COMMITTEE | CONNOISSEUR |
CONSENSUS | COROLLARY | CORRELATE | DAIQUIRI | DECEITFUL |
DEFINITELY | DESICCATE | DIARRHOEA | DIPHTHERIA | DISAPPOINT |
DULCIMER | DUMBBELL | DYSLEXIA | ECSTASY | ECZEMA |
EMBARRASSED | EXISTENCE | FIERY | FLABBERGASTED | FLUORESCENT |
FRACAS | FULFIL | GAUGE | GENIUS | GNEISS |
GRAMMAR | GOVERNMENT | GUARANTEE | HAEMORRHAGE | HARASS |
HIERARCHY | HIPPOPOTAMUS | HYPOCRISY | IDIOSYNCRASY | IMMEDIATELY |
INADVERTENT | INNOCUOUS | INOCULATE | IRRESISTIBLE | KAMIKAZE |
KINDERGARTEN | LIAISON | MACAQUE | MANOEUVRE | MILLENNIUM |
MINUSCULE | MISCELLANEOUS | MISCHIEVOUS | MNEMONIC | MOCCASIN |
MYXOMATOSIS | NECESSARY | OBSEQUIOUS | OCCASIONALLY | OCCURRENCE |
ONOMATOPOEIA | OPHTHALMOLOGY | PARALLEL | PEJORATIVE | PEREMPTORY |
PERJURY | PERSEVERANCE | PHARAOH | PHOSPHORESCENCE | PHYSIOGNOMY |
PLAGIARISE | PRECEDE | PREROGATIVE | PRIVILEGE | PROCEED |
PRONUNCIATION | PROPAGATE | PROSAIC | PSYCHIATRY | RECEIPT |
RECOMMEND | REFEREE | REPERTOIRE | RHODODENDRON | SACRILEGIOUS |
SARCOPHAGUS | SCHADENFREUDE | SECRETARY | SEIZE | SEPARATE |
SHERIFF | SIEVE | SUPERSEDE | SYNONYMOUS | VACUUM |
VERRUCA | VIGNETTE | WEIRD | WITHHOLD |
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