JOHOR SPELLING ASSESSMENT STANDARD (JOSAS)

FORM 2
NO LOW FREQUENCY NO
WORDS
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Blow
Boast
Body
Bone
Bottle
Above
Almost
Ago
All
Aim
Also
Along
Angry
Animal
Another
Answer
Any
Army
Arrest
Angle
Behave
Behind
Better
Beggar
Birth
Bill
Duty
Easy
Early
Eat
End
Even
Face
Fail
Fan
Fast
Far
Fat
Find

MODERATE
Border
Brother
Build
Bunch
Address
Accuse
Ache
Adopt
Account
Abroad
Aeroplane
Allow
Appear
Argue
Arrange
Arrive
Arrow
Amount
Asleep
Ask
Balance
Beautiful
Bicycle
Blame
Blood
Birth
During
Dust
Empty
Engine
East
Exercise
Family
Famous
Fate
Fault
Fierce
Finger
Fire

NO

HIGH
FREQUENCY
WORDS
Breathe
Breakfast
Absence
Accept
Advertisement
Afford
Against
Agriculture
Altogether
Already
Ambition
Ancient
Apologise
Article
Ashamed
Attempt
Attract
Audience
Autumn
Attend
Backbone
Behaviour
Beneath
Educate
Electricity
Elephant
Encourage
Excellent
Expensive
Explore
Envelope
Examination
Farther
Female
Frequent
Freedom
Freeze
Forgive
Frighten

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Fear
Finish
Furniture
SPELLING BEE COMPETITION FOR FORM 2

NO LOW FREQUENCY NO
WORDS
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42
43
44
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52
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70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79

Gas
Gate
Get
Go
Gold
Glad
Hate
Have
Heal
Heat
Hold
Hole
Pay
Pig
Pot
Pure
Purple
Quick
Race
Rabbit
Rake
Rent
Reply
Ready
Radio
Reach
Sail
Salt
School
Screw
Seat
Seed
Shall
Shampoo
Shut
Slim
Shoe
Sick
Snow

MODERATE
Gentle
Govern
Guess
Guard
Group
Grow
Hard
Heaven
Heavy
Hire
Horse
Hour
Parcel
Pattern
Picture
Pigeon
Pinch
Quarter
Railing
Regular
Regret
Result
Rapid
Repair
Roast
Rude
Seldom
Solid
Smooth
Steal
Spirit
Steam
Signal
Shelter
Secret
Second
Salary
Orange
Shine

NO

HIGH
FREQUENCY
WORDS
Government
Garage
Guilty
Hardworking
Handsome
Haste
Headache
Helpful
Height
History
Holidays
Honest
Punishment
Programme
Permission
Patience
Population
Quantity
Receipt
Recently
Relation
Responsible
Restaurant
Rough
Secretary
Satisfy
Science
Scissors
Separate
Shallow
Shoulder
Society
Soldier
Square
Station
Struggle
Straight
Stiff
Solve

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Soak
Shout
SPELLING BEE COMPETITION FOR FORM 2

NO LOW FREQUENCY NO
WORDS
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82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100

Tail
Tea
Taxi
Test
Thin
Thick
Tone
Tree
Toe
Ugly
Wall
Wash
Water
Wild
Will
Wise
Wish
Wear
Week
Yes

MODERATE
Today
Travel
Those
Temper
Temple
Paste
Truth
Tyre
Towards
Under
Ward
Which
Wrong
Winter
Window
Without
Woman
Worry
Wrap
Yellow

NO

Steady

HIGH
FREQUENCY
WORDS
Toothbrush
Therefore
Thought
Threaten
Toothpaste
Translate
Technology
Telephone
Telegraph
Upper
Weapon
Welcome
Weather
Witness
Worship
Would
Wicked
Young
Yesterday
Introduction

LOW FREQUENCY WORDS

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WORDS
Blow (V)
Boast (V)
Along
Animal
Arrest (V)
Angle
Beggar
Early
Fail
Fear
Gate
Glad
Hate
Heat (N)
Hold (V)
Pay (V)
Pure
Quick
Race (V)
Rake (N)
Reach (V)
Screw
Seed
Shampoo
Slim
Soak
Snow
Thin
Tail
Tone
Toe
Ugly
Water
Wise
Wish
Wear (V)
Weak
Sail
School
Rent

MEANINGS
Sent our air through pursed lips
Talk about oneself with excessive pride
Moving in a constant direction on
A living organism that can move about of its own accord
Seize by legal authority and take them into custody
A space between two lines or surfaces that meet
A person who lives by asking for food or money as charity
Before the usual or expected time
Be unsuccessful in achieving something
An unpleasant emotion caused by threat of danger, harm
Movable barrier which closes an opening in a wall or fence
Pleased, delighted
Strong dislike
High temperature, hotness
Take and keep or support in ones arms, hands, teeth, etc
Give money for goods and services
Not mixed with any other substance
Capable of moving fast/doing something in a short time
Contest of speed to see which reaches a certain place first
A tool consisting of a pole with metal prongs at the end
Stretch out in order to touch, grasp or take something
Thing that is turned, used for tightening, gripping, etc
Part of plant frm which a new plant of d same kind can grow
Type of soapy liquid, cream, etc for washing the hair
Not fat/thick, slender
Become thoroughly wet by being in or by absorbing liquid
Frozen water that falls from the sky in soft white flakes
Of small diameter
Movable part at the end of the body of a bird, an animal, etc
Sound, esp with reference to its pitch, quality, strength, etc
Any of the five digit at the end of the foot
Unpleasant to look at or to hear
Liquid without colour, smell or taste, used for drinking, etc
Having or showing good judgement
Express a desire for something
Have sth on ones body, esp as clothing, an ornament, etc
Lacking strength or power, easily broken, bent or defeated
Sheet of canvas spread to catch d wind and drive a ship along
Institution for educating children
Regular payment made for the use of land, premises, etc.

MODERATE WORDS
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WORDS
Border
Bunch
Accuse (V)
Adopt
Account
Abroad
Allow
Appear
Argue
Balance
Blood
Birth
Dust
Empty
Engine
Exercise (N)
Family
Famous
Fault
Fierce
Gentle
Guess
Hire (V)
Parcel
Pigeon
Railing (N)
Regret
Repair
Seldom
Smooth
Shelter
Salary
Shine (N)
Travel
Temper
Truth
Wrong
Window
Worry
Wrap

MEANINGS
A decorative band around the edge of something
A number of things grouped or held together
Say that someone has done something wrong
Legally take anothers child and bring it up as his own
A description of an event
In or to a foreign country or countries
Permit to do something
Came into view or existence
Exchange conflicting views heatedly
A state in which weight is evenly distributed
The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins
The emergence of a baby fr d body of the mother
Fine, dry powder made up of tiny particles of earth, etc
Containing nothing, not filled or occupied
A machine wth moving parts that converts power into motion
Activity requiring physical effort, for d sake of health
A group consisting of parents and their children
Known about by many people
A defect or mistake
Violent or aggressive
Mild or kind, not rough or violent
Estimate without enough information
Obtain the temporary use of sth in return for payment
An object/objects wrapped in paper to be sent by post
A fat bird with a small head and a cooing voice
A fence made of a bar or a series of bars fixed on supports
Feel or express sorrow or disappointment
Restore sth damaged, to a good condition
Not often
Having an even and regular surface without lumps
A place giving protection from bad weather or danger
A fixed regular payment made by an employer to employee
Give out or reflect light
Make a journey
A tendency to become angry easily
A fact or belief that is accepted
Not correct or true; mistaken or in error
An opening in a wall or roof fitted with glass
Feel/ cause to feel troubled over actual/ potential difficulties
Cover or enclose in paper or soft material

HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS

NO
WORDS
1
Breathe(N)
2

Absence

Advertisement

4
5
6

Agriculture
Ambition
Ancient

Apologise

Attract

Audience

10

Autumn

11

Backbone

12

Electricity

13
14

Encourage
Excellent

15
16
17
18

Expensive
Frequent
Frighten
Furniture

19

Government

20
21
22
23

Hardworking
Headache
Punishment
Permission

24

Population

MEANINGS
To take in air into your lungs and send it out again through
your nose or mouth
The fact somebody being away from a place where they are
usually expected to be
A notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or
service
The science or practice farming
Something that you want to do or achieve so much
Belonging to a period of history that is thousands years in the
past
To say that you are sorry for doing something wrong or
causing a problem
If you are attracted by something, it interests you and makes
you wants it
The group of people who have gathered to watch or listen to
something ( a play, concert, somebody speaking etc)
The season of the year between summer and winter, when
leaves change colour and the weather becomes colder.
the row of small bones that are connected together down
the middle of the back
A form of energy from charged elementary particles, usually
supplied as electric current through cables, wires, etc for
lighting, heating, driving machines etc
To give somebody support, courage or hope
i.
Extremely good
ii.
Use to show that you are please about something
or that you approve of something
Costing a lot of money
Happening often / a visit to a particular place often
To make somebody suddenly
Objects that can be moved, such can be moved, such a
stables, chairs etc
The group of people who are responsible for controlling a
country or state.
Putting a lot of effort into a job and doing it well
Continuous pain in the head
An act or away of punishing somebody
The act of allowing somebody to do something, especially
when this is done by somebody in a position of authority
All the people who live in a particular area, city or country;
the total number of people who live there

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Receipt

26

Relation

27

Responsible

28
29

Restaurant
Rough

30

Secretary

31

Separate

32

Shallow

33
34

Society
Struggle

35

Stiff

36
37

Solve
Threaten

39

Translate

40

Technology

41

Introduction

A piece of paper that shows that goods or services have been

paid for
The way in which two people, groups or countries behave
towards each other or deal with each other
Having the job or duty of doing something or take care of
somebody /something, so that you may be blamed if
something goes wrong
A place where you can buy and eat a meal
i having a surface that is not even or regular
ii not gentle or careful, violent etc
A person who works in an office, working for another person,
dealing with letters, telephone calls, typing, keeping records,
arranging meetings with people
Forming a unit by itself, not join with something else, not
connected, to divide into different parts or groups
Not having much distance between the top or surface and the
bottom
People in general, living together in communities
To try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when
there are a lot of problems
i firm and difficult to bend or move
ii more difficult or severe than usual
To find a way of dealing with a problem or difficult situation
To say that you will cause trouble, hurt somebody , etc, if you
do not get what you want
To express the meaning of speech or writing in a different
language
Scientific knowledge used in a practical ways in industry, for
example in designing new machines
The act of bringing something into use or existence for the
first time