Second grade vocabulary lists: Academic vocabulary words for 2nd graders

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2nd Grade Vocabulary Words and Definitions

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Vocabulary words are designed to prepare students to understand words they will come across in their readers. They range in difficulty but by the end of 2nd grade, students should have a solid handle on several different levels of vocabulary words. Explore 2nd grade vocabulary words covering a range of difficulty levels.

2nd Grade Spelling Words With 4 Letters or Fewer

To get students started, you can explore these 2nd grade vocabulary words with 4 letters or fewer.

  • bare (adj.) – not covered or clothed
  • cage (n.) – confining structure with bars
  • calm (adj.) – feeling at peace, not nervous
  • chew (v.) – using the mouth to bite and break down food
  • damp (adj. ) – something that is slightly wet
  • deep (adj.) – extending far down from the surface
  • edit (v.) – to make corrections or modify a paper
  • flap (v.) – moving wings or arms as if preparing to fly
  • gasp (v.) – sudden inhale of astonishment or pain
  • herd (n.) – a large group of animals
  • leap (v.) – to spring or jump in the air
  • net (n.) – webbed or mesh structure for catching insects
  • past (n.) – the period of time that has gone by
  • peak (v.) – reaching the highest point or greatest potential
  • safe (adj.) – to be protected from dangers
  • soil (n.) – the layer of earth where plants grow
  • sway (v.) – to move rhythmically like to music
  • team (v.) – a group of individuals coming together for a shared purpose
  • wise (adj. ) – showing good judgment
  • yard (n.) – area around a house covered in grass

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2nd Grade Vocabulary Words With 5 Letters

Shorter spelling words are great when kids are first getting started. However, as the year goes on it helps to start funneling in words that are a bit more challenging. Jump into these five-letter 2nd grade spelling words.

  • amaze (v.) – great surprise or astonishment
  • beach (n.) – sandy shore near water
  • brave (adj.) – showing courage when faced with danger or pain
  • cause (n.) – a principle or movement someone is ready to defend
  • cycle (n.) – series of events happening in a specific order
  • design (n.) – arrangement of lines into a specific pattern
  • doubt (n.) – having a feeling of uncertainty about something
  • effect (n. ) – the result of an action
  • feast (n.) – a big meal
  • fresh (adj.) – new, different, recently obtained
  • insect (n.) – a small invertebrate animal with six legs and two pairs of wings
  • label (n.) – tag attached to material providing information about it
  • moist (adj.) – something that is slightly wet
  • ocean (n.) – the large sea that covers the earth broken into regions
  • proof (n.) – evidence provided to show the truth of a statement
  • rumor (n.) – a circulating story that is doubtful or not based on facts
  • skill (n.) – having expertise in an area or doing something well
  • stack (v.) – to pile or arrange objects on top of each other
  • tower (n.) – a tall building or structure
  • worry (v.) – giving way to your unease or anxiety

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2nd Grade Vocab Words With 6 or More Letters

As you’re ending out the year or as you come across them in your readers, you’ll add multiple syllable words with 6 or more letters. Check out some of these more difficult 2nd grade vocabulary words.

  • amusing (adj.) – causes laughter or entertainment
  • arranged (v.) – putting things in a neat or required order
  • community (n.) – a group of people living together in an area
  • cooperation (n.) – the process where you work together toward a common goal
  • describe (v.) – using words or phrases to describe characteristics, events or qualities
  • difference (n.) – the way things or people are not the same
  • energy (n.) – strength needed to do physical or mental activities
  • friendly (adj.) – pleasant or kind
  • frighten (v.) – making someone afraid
  • gravity (n.) – the force that keeps you from flying into space
  • greedy (adj.) – having an intense need or desire for something
  • instrument (n. ) – a tool used to do work
  • leader (n.) – person to command a group
  • mention (v.) – to briefly refer to something like in passing
  • nervous (adj.) – to be anxious
  • notice (n.) – something you observe
  • present (n.) – time you are currently in
  • reflect (v.) – to give back an image or likeness
  • scholar (n.) – a specialist in an area
  • settle (v.) – to reach an agreement on a dispute
  • stream (n.) – narrow, shallow river
  • telescope (n.) – an instrument that lets you see space
  • treasure (n.) – a quantity of valuable object like jewels
  • tremble (v.) – involuntary shaking
  • universe (n.) – the cosmos
  • village (n.) – a group of buildings or houses
  • volunteer (n. ) – an individual that offers their services or self freely
  • whisper (v.) – speaking softly
  • wonder (n.) – the feeling of admiration at something unexpected or beautiful
  • zigzag (n.) – a course or line with sharp right and left turns

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Having Fun With 2nd Grade Vocabulary Words

Beyond just giving your students spelling words, it can be fun to offer them several different activities they can use with these words. For instance, you might use engaging 2nd grade writing prompts. You can also practice spelling through different activities. If you really want to have some fun, you might try 7 fun memory games for kids.

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2nd Grade Words: 1000+ Vocabulary Words for 2nd Grade | PDF

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Welcome to our comprehensive guide on “ Vocabulary Words for 2nd Grade “! As children progress through their educational journey, building a strong vocabulary becomes increasingly important. The second grade is a critical year for language development, where kids expand their reading, writing, and communication skills. In this blog post, we have curated a comprehensive word list specifically tailored for second graders, designed to enhance their vocabulary, improve comprehension, and foster a love for words.

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Here is a list of 1000+ words that are appropriate for second graders:

About Above Across
After Again All
Almost Along Also
Always Among And
Another Any Around
Ask Ate Away
Back Bad Ball
Balloon Banana Bank
Bat Beach Bear
Beautiful Bed Bee
Before Behind Bell
Best Better Between
Big Bird Birthday
Black Blue Boat
Book Both Box
Boy Bread Break
Bring Brown Build
Bus But Buy
By Cake Call
Came Can Car
Card Care Carry
Cat Catch Cause
Center Certain Chair
Change Check Chicken
Child Children Choose
Circle City Class
Clean Clear Close
Cold Color Come
Common Complete Contain
Could Country Course
Cover Cowboy Cream
Cry Cut Dance
Dark Day Dear
Decide Deep Deer
Desk Different Difficult
Dinner Direction Discover
Do Doctor Dog
Doll Done Door
Down Draw Dream
Dress Drink Drive
Drop Dry Duck
During Each Ear
Early Earth Easy
Eat Education Egg
Eight Either Elephant
Else End Enemy
Enjoy Enough Enter
Equal Even Evening
Ever Every Example
Except Exercise Experience
Explain Eye Face
Fact Fall Family
Far Farm Fast
Father Favorite Fear

 

Feel Feet Fell
Felt Few Field
Fifteen Fight Figure
Fill Final Find
Fine Finger Finish
Fire First Fish
Five Flag Flat
Floor Flower Fly
Follow Food Foot
For Force Forget
Form Found Four
Fraction Free Friend
From Front Fruit
Full Fun Funny
Game Garden Gas
Gather Gave General
Gentle Get Gift
Girl Give Glad
Glass Go Goes
Gold Golf Good
Got Government Grade
Grain Grass Great
Green Grew Ground
Group Grow Guess
Guide Gun Had
Hair Half Hand
Happen Happy Hard
Has Hat Have
He Head Hear
Heard Heart Heavy
Held Help Her
Here High Hill
Him Himself His
History Hit Hold
Hole Holiday Home
Hope Horse Hot
Hour House How
However Hug Human
Hundred Hunt Hurry
Hurt I Ice
Idea If Imagine
Important In Inch
Include Including Increase
Indeed Inside Instead
Interest Into Island
It Its Itself
Jacket Job Join
Jump Just Keep
Kept Key Kid
Kill Kind King
Knew Know Known
Lady Lake Land
Language Large Last
Late Later Laugh
Lay Lead Learn
Least Leave Led
Left Leg Length
Less Let Letter
Level Library Lie
Life Lift Light
Like Likely Line
Lion List Listen
Little Live Lizard
Local Location Long
Look Lose Lost
Lot Loud Love
Low Machine Made
Magazine Magic Magnet
Mail Main Make
Man Many Map
Mark Market Master

 

Match Material Matter
May Maybe Me
Meal Mean Meant
Measure Meat Meet
Melody Melt Member
Memory Men Mention
Menu Mercury Merry
Message Metal Middle
Might Mile Milk
Million Mind Mine
Mineral Minute Mirror
Miss Mistake Mix
Model Modern Moment
Money Monkey Month
Mood Moon More
Morning Most Mother
Motion Motor Mountain
Mouse Mouth Move
Much Mud Multiplication
Muscle Museum Music
Must My Myself
Nail Name Narrow
Nation Native Natural
Nature Near Neat
Necessary Neck Need
Needle Negative Neighbor
Neither Nephew Nest
Never New News
Newspaper Next Nice
Night Nine No
Noble Nobody Nod
Noise None Noon
Nor North Nose
Not Note Nothing
Notice Now Nowhere
Nuclear Number Nurse
Nut Object Observe
Ocean Of Off
Offer Office Often
Oil Old On
Once One Only
Onto Open Opinion
Opposite Or Orange
Order Ordinary Organ
Original Other Our
Ourselves Out Outer
Outline Outside Over
Own Owner Oxygen
Pace Pack Package
Page Paid Pain
Paint Pair Palace
Pale Paper Paragraph
Parallel Parent Park
Part Particular Party
Pass Past Path
Pattern Pause Pay
Peace Pen Pencil
People Percent Perfect
Perhaps Period Person
Pet Phrase Physical
Piano Pick Picture
Piece Pig Pile
Pill Pilot Pine
Pink Pipe Pitch
Place Plain Plan
Plane Planet Plant
Plastic Plate Play
Pleasant Please Pleasure
Plenty Plot Plow
Plural Plus Pocket
Poem Poet Point
Poison Pole Police
Polish Polite Pond

 

Pool Poor Pop
Popular Population Porch
Port Position Possible
Post Pot Potato
Pound Pour Powder
Power Practice Prepare
Present President Press
Pressure Pretty Prevent
Price Pride Primary
Prince Princess Print
Private Prize Problem
Process Produce Product
Production Program Progress
Project Promise Promote
Prompt Proof Proper
Property Proportion Protect
Proud Prove Provide
Public Pull Pump
Punch Punish Pupil
Pure Purple Purpose
Push Put Puzzle
Pyramid Qualify Quality
Quarter Queen Question
Quick Quiet Quit
Quite Quote Rabbit
Race Radio Rail
Railroad Rain Raise
Range Rap Rate
Rather Raw Ray
Reach Read Ready
Real Realize Reason
Recall Receive Recent
Recess Recognize Record
Red Reduce Refer
Reflect Refrigerator Refuse
Regard Region Regular
Relate Relationship Relax
Release Relief Rely
Remain Remember Remind
Remove Rent Repair
Repeat Replace Reply
Report Represent Require
Rescue Research Respect
Responsible Rest Restaurant
Result Return Reveal
Review Reward Rhythm
Rice Rich Ride
Right Ring Ripe
Rise Risk River
Road Roast Rock
Rocket Role Roll
Roof Room Root
Rope Rose Rough
Round Route Row
Rubber Rude Rule
Ruler Run Rush
Sad Safe Sail
Salad Sale Salt
Same Sand Sandwich
Satisfied Save Saw
Say Scale Scare
School Science Scissors
Score Scream Sea
Search Season Seat
Second Secret Section
See Seed Seek
Seem Seen Select

 

Self Sell Send
Sense Sentence Separate
September Servant Serve
Service Set Settle
Several Sewing Shade
Shadow Shake Shall
Shame Shape Share
Sharp Shave She
Sheep Sheet Shelf
Shell Shine Ship
Shirt Shock Shoe
Shoot Shop Shore
Short Shot Shoulder
Shout Show Shower
Shut Sick Side
Sidewalk Sight Sign
Silence Silent Silk
Sill Silver Similar
Simple Since Sing
Single Sink Sister
Sit Size Skate
Ski Skill Skin
Skirt Sky Sleep
Sleeve Slide Slight
Slim Slip Slope
Slow Small Smart
Smell Smile Smoke
Smooth Snake Sneeze
Snow Snowflake Snowy
So Soap Social
Society Sock Soft
Soil Soldier Some
Son Song Soon
Sore Sort Sound
Soup South Space
Spade Span Spare
Speak Special Speed
Spell Spend Spider
Spike Spill Spin
Spirit Spit Splash
Spoil Spoon Sport
Spot Spray Spread
Spring Square Staff
Stage Stairs Stamp
Stand Star Stare
Start State Station
Stay Steal Steam
Steel Steep Steer
Step Stick Sticky
Stiff Still Sting
Stir Stitch Stock
Stomach Stone Stop
Store Storm Story
Stove Straight Strange
Stranger Strap Strawberry
Stream Street Stretch
Strike String Strong
Student Study Stuff
Stumble Stupid Subject
Submarine Success Such
Sudden Sugar Suit
Summer Sun Sunday
Sunny Sunrise Sunset
Sunshine Supper Supply
Support Suppose Sure
Surface Surprise Surround
Swamp Swan Sweat
Sweater Sweep Sweet
Swim Swing Switch
Sword Table Tablet
Tail Take Talk
Tall Taste Tax
Taxi Tea Teach
Team Tear Teaspoon
Teeth Telephone Television
Tell Temple Ten
Tennis Tent Terrible
Test Than Thank
That The Theater
Their Them Then
There These They
Thick Thief Thin
Thing Think Third
Thirsty Thirteen Thirty
This Those Though
Thought Thousand Thread
Three Throat Through
Throw Thumb Thunder
Thursday Thus Ticket
Tide Tidy Tie
Tiger Tight Till
Time Tin Tiny
Tip Tire Tired
Tissue Title To
Toe Together Toilet
Tomato Tomorrow Ton
Tone Tongue Tonight
Too Tool Tooth
Top Total Touch
Toward Tower Town
Toy Track Trade
Traffic Train Travel
Tray Treasure Tree
Trick Trip Trouble
Truck True Trumpet
Trust Try Tub
Tuesday Tug Tulip
Tumble Tune Tunnel
Turkey Turn Turtle
Twelve Twenty Twice
Twin Twist Two
Type Uncle Under
Understand Unicorn Uniform
University Unless Until
Up Upon Upper
Upset Upside Us

 

Use Usual Vacation
Valentine Valley Valuable
Value Vegetable Vehicle
Velvet Very Vet
Video View Village
Violin Visit Voice
Volcano Volleyball Vote
Wagon Waist Wait
Wake Walk Wall
Walnut Want War
Warm Warn Wash
Waste Watch Water
Waterfall Wave Way
We Weak Wealth
Weapon Wear Weather
Web Wednesday Week
Weekend Weigh Weight
Welcome Well West
Wet Whale What
Whatever Wheat Wheel
When Where Whether
Which While Whisper
White Who Whole
Whom Whose Why
Wide Wife Wild
Will Win Wind
Window Wine Wing
Winner Winter Wire
Wise Wish With
Without Witness Wizard
Wolf Woman Wonder
Wood Wooden Word
Work World Worm
Worry Worth Would
Wound Wrap Wreath
Write Writer Wrong
Yard Year Yellow
Yes Yesterday Yet
Yoga Yogurt You
Young Your Yours
Yourself Youth Zeal
Zealous Zero Zigzag
Zinc Zipper Zone
Zoo Zoology

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Vocabulary words grade 2 Kanakina School of Russia print

List of vocabulary words for grade 2

October

Alphabet,
April,
birch,
fast,
all of a sudden,
funny,
wind,
sparrow,
crow,
city,
girl,
duty,
December,
village.

November

Road,
Goodbye,
yellow,
plant,
hare,
Hello),
strawberry,
Sorry,
frost,
cabbage,
pencil,
painting,
Class.

December

Skates,
cow,
fox,
shovel,
frog,
shop,
raspberries,
car,
furniture,
bear,
month,
blizzard,
metro,
milk.

January

Hammer,
carrot,
freezing,
Moscow,
people,
november,
dinner,
monkey,
cloud,
cloth,
October,
aspen,
father,
coat.

February

Pencil case,
rooster,
handkerchief,
dishes,
Goodbye,
Job,
worker,
Guys,
drawing,
motherland,
Russia,
Russian,
boots.

March

Sugar,
September,
soon,
bullfinch,
dog,
magpie,
Thank you,
cup,
Saturday,
plate,
notebook,
comrade,
axe,
Street.

April

Harvest,
student,
pupil,
teacher,
surname,
February,
Fine,
walked,
sorrel,
apple,
Apple tree,
berry,
language,
January.

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