JOHOR SPELLING ASSESSMENT STANDARD (JOSAS)

FORM 2

NO LOW FREQUENCY NO MODERATE NO HIGH

WORDS FREQUENCY
WORDS
1 Blow Border Breathe
2 Boast Brother Breakfast
3 Body Build Absence
4 Bone Bunch Accept
5 Bottle Address Advertisement
6 Above Accuse Afford
7 Almost Ache Against
8 Ago Adopt Agriculture
9 All Account Altogether
10 Aim Abroad Already
11 Also Aeroplane Ambition
12 Along Allow Ancient
13 Angry Appear Apologise
14 Animal Argue Article
15 Another Arrange Ashamed
16 Answer Arrive Attempt
17 Any Arrow Attract
18 Army Amount Audience
19 Arrest Asleep Autumn
20 Angle Ask Attend
21 Behave Balance Backbone
22 Behind Beautiful Behaviour
23 Better Bicycle Beneath
24 Beggar Blame Educate
25 Birth Blood Electricity
26 Bill Birth Elephant
27 Duty During Encourage
28 Easy Dust Excellent
29 Early Empty Expensive
30 Eat Engine Explore
31 End East Envelope
32 Even Exercise Examination
33 Face Family Farther
34 Fail Famous Female
35 Fan Fate Frequent
36 Fast Fault Freedom
37 Far Fierce Freeze
38 Fat Finger Forgive
39 Find Fire Frighten
40 Fear Finish Furniture
SPELLING BEE COMPETITION FOR FORM 2

NO LOW FREQUENCY NO MODERATE NO HIGH

WORDS FREQUENCY
WORDS
41 Gas Gentle Government
42 Gate Govern Garage
43 Get Guess Guilty
44 Go Guard Hardworking
45 Gold Group Handsome
46 Glad Grow Haste
47 Hate Hard Headache
48 Have Heaven Helpful
49 Heal Heavy Height
50 Heat Hire History
51 Hold Horse Holidays
52 Hole Hour Honest
53 Pay Parcel Punishment
54 Pig Pattern Programme
55 Pot Picture Permission
56 Pure Pigeon Patience
57 Purple Pinch Population
58 Quick Quarter Quantity
59 Race Railing Receipt
60 Rabbit Regular Recently
61 Rake Regret Relation
62 Rent Result Responsible
63 Reply Rapid Restaurant
64 Ready Repair Rough
65 Radio Roast Secretary
66 Reach Rude Satisfy
67 Sail Seldom Science
68 Salt Solid Scissors
69 School Smooth Separate
70 Screw Steal Shallow
71 Seat Spirit Shoulder
72 Seed Steam Society
73 Shall Signal Soldier
74 Shampoo Shelter Square
75 Shut Secret Station
76 Slim Second Struggle
77 Shoe Salary Straight
78 Sick Orange Stiff
79 Snow Shine Solve
80 Soak Shout Steady
SPELLING BEE COMPETITION FOR FORM 2

NO LOW FREQUENCY NO MODERATE NO HIGH

WORDS FREQUENCY
WORDS
81 Tail Today Toothbrush
82 Tea Travel Therefore
83 Taxi Those Thought
84 Test Temper Threaten
85 Thin Temple Toothpaste
86 Thick Paste Translate
87 Tone Truth Technology
88 Tree Tyre Telephone
89 Toe Towards Telegraph
90 Ugly Under Upper
91 Wall Ward Weapon
92 Wash Which Welcome
93 Water Wrong Weather
94 Wild Winter Witness
95 Will Window Worship
96 Wise Without Would
97 Wish Woman Wicked
98 Wear Worry Young
99 Week Wrap Yesterday
100 Yes Yellow Introduction
LOW FREQUENCY WORDS

NO WORDS MEANINGS
1 Blow (V) Sent our air through pursed lips
2 Boast (V) Talk about oneself with excessive pride
3 Along Moving in a constant direction on
4 Animal A living organism that can move about of its own accord
5 Arrest (V) Seize by legal authority and take them into custody
6 Angle A space between two lines or surfaces that meet
7 Beggar A person who lives by asking for food or money as charity
8 Early Before the usual or expected time
9 Fail Be unsuccessful in achieving something
10 Fear An unpleasant emotion caused by threat of danger, harm
11 Gate Movable barrier which closes an opening in a wall or fence
12 Glad Pleased, delighted
13 Hate Strong dislike
14 Heat (N) High temperature, hotness
15 Hold (V) Take and keep or support in ones arms, hands, teeth, etc
16 Pay (V) Give money for goods and services
17 Pure Not mixed with any other substance
18 Quick Capable of moving fast/doing something in a short time
19 Race (V) Contest of speed to see which reaches a certain place first
20 Rake (N) A tool consisting of a pole with metal prongs at the end
21 Reach (V) Stretch out in order to touch, grasp or take something
22 Screw Thing that is turned, used for tightening, gripping, etc
23 Seed Part of plant frm which a new plant of d same kind can grow
24 Shampoo Type of soapy liquid, cream, etc for washing the hair
25 Slim Not fat/thick, slender
26 Soak Become thoroughly wet by being in or by absorbing liquid
27 Snow Frozen water that falls from the sky in soft white flakes
28 Thin Of small diameter
29 Tail Movable part at the end of the body of a bird, an animal, etc
30 Tone Sound, esp with reference to its pitch, quality, strength, etc
31 Toe Any of the five digit at the end of the foot
32 Ugly Unpleasant to look at or to hear
33 Water Liquid without colour, smell or taste, used for drinking, etc
34 Wise Having or showing good judgement
35 Wish Express a desire for something
36 Wear (V) Have sth on ones body, esp as clothing, an ornament, etc
37 Weak Lacking strength or power, easily broken, bent or defeated
38 Sail Sheet of canvas spread to catch d wind and drive a ship along
39 School Institution for educating children
40 Rent Regular payment made for the use of land, premises, etc.
MODERATE WORDS

NO WORDS MEANINGS
1 Border A decorative band around the edge of something
2 Bunch A number of things grouped or held together
3 Accuse (V) Say that someone has done something wrong
4 Adopt Legally take anothers child and bring it up as his own
5 Account A description of an event
6 Abroad In or to a foreign country or countries
7 Allow Permit to do something
8 Appear Came into view or existence
9 Argue Exchange conflicting views heatedly
10 Balance A state in which weight is evenly distributed
11 Blood The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins
12 Birth The emergence of a baby fr d body of the mother
13 Dust Fine, dry powder made up of tiny particles of earth, etc
14 Empty Containing nothing, not filled or occupied
15 Engine A machine wth moving parts that converts power into motion
16 Exercise (N) Activity requiring physical effort, for d sake of health
17 Family A group consisting of parents and their children
18 Famous Known about by many people
19 Fault A defect or mistake
20 Fierce Violent or aggressive
21 Gentle Mild or kind, not rough or violent
22 Guess Estimate without enough information
23 Hire (V) Obtain the temporary use of sth in return for payment
24 Parcel An object/objects wrapped in paper to be sent by post
25 Pigeon A fat bird with a small head and a cooing voice
26 Railing (N) A fence made of a bar or a series of bars fixed on supports
27 Regret Feel or express sorrow or disappointment
28 Repair Restore sth damaged, to a good condition
29 Seldom Not often
30 Smooth Having an even and regular surface without lumps
31 Shelter A place giving protection from bad weather or danger
32 Salary A fixed regular payment made by an employer to employee
33 Shine (N) Give out or reflect light
34 Travel Make a journey
35 Temper A tendency to become angry easily
36 Truth A fact or belief that is accepted
37 Wrong Not correct or true; mistaken or in error
38 Window An opening in a wall or roof fitted with glass
39 Worry Feel/ cause to feel troubled over actual/ potential difficulties
40 Wrap Cover or enclose in paper or soft material
HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS

NO WORDS MEANINGS
1 Breathe(N) To take in air into your lungs and send it out again through
your nose or mouth
2 Absence The fact somebody being away from a place where they are
usually expected to be
3 Advertisement A notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or
service
4 Agriculture The science or practice farming
5 Ambition Something that you want to do or achieve so much
6 Ancient Belonging to a period of history that is thousands years in the
past
7 Apologise To say that you are sorry for doing something wrong or
causing a problem
8 Attract If you are attracted by something, it interests you and makes
you wants it
9 Audience The group of people who have gathered to watch or listen to
something ( a play, concert, somebody speaking etc)
10 Autumn The season of the year between summer and winter, when
leaves change colour and the weather becomes colder.
11 Backbone the row of small bones that are connected together down
the middle of the back
12 Electricity A form of energy from charged elementary particles, usually
supplied as electric current through cables, wires, etc for
lighting, heating, driving machines etc
13 Encourage To give somebody support, courage or hope
14 Excellent i. Extremely good
ii. Use to show that you are please about something
or that you approve of something
15 Expensive Costing a lot of money
16 Frequent Happening often / a visit to a particular place often
17 Frighten To make somebody suddenly
18 Furniture Objects that can be moved, such can be moved, such a
stables, chairs etc
19 Government The group of people who are responsible for controlling a
country or state.
20 Hardworking Putting a lot of effort into a job and doing it well
21 Headache Continuous pain in the head
22 Punishment An act or away of punishing somebody
23 Permission The act of allowing somebody to do something, especially
when this is done by somebody in a position of authority
24 Population All the people who live in a particular area, city or country;
the total number of people who live there
25 Receipt A piece of paper that shows that goods or services have been
paid for
26 Relation The way in which two people, groups or countries behave
towards each other or deal with each other
27 Responsible Having the job or duty of doing something or take care of
somebody /something, so that you may be blamed if
something goes wrong
28 Restaurant A place where you can buy and eat a meal
29 Rough i having a surface that is not even or regular
ii not gentle or careful, violent etc
30 Secretary A person who works in an office, working for another person,
dealing with letters, telephone calls, typing, keeping records,
arranging meetings with people
31 Separate Forming a unit by itself, not join with something else, not
connected, to divide into different parts or groups
32 Shallow Not having much distance between the top or surface and the
bottom
33 Society People in general, living together in communities
34 Struggle To try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when
there are a lot of problems
35 Stiff i firm and difficult to bend or move
ii more difficult or severe than usual
36 Solve To find a way of dealing with a problem or difficult situation
37 Threaten To say that you will cause trouble, hurt somebody , etc, if you
do not get what you want
39 Translate To express the meaning of speech or writing in a different
language
40 Technology Scientific knowledge used in a practical ways in industry, for
example in designing new machines
41 Introduction The act of bringing something into use or existence for the
first time