2nd Grade Vocabulary Word List
This second-grade vocabulary list was built from an analysis of difficult words that appear in basal readers and other books commonly taught in the 2nd grade.
Accident
Adventure
agree
arrive
Approach
astronomy
atlas
attention
award
aware
Balance
banner
bare
base
beach
Behavior
besides
blast
board
bounce
brain
branch
brave
bright
Cage
calf
calm
Celebrate
career
center
Character
cheer
chew
claw
clear
cliff
club
collect
Community
Compassion
connect
core
corner
couple
Courage
Curious
crowd
curious
Damp
dangerous
dash
dawn
Dedication
deep
demolish
design
discard
Discover
dive
dome
doubt
dozen
Earth
Education
enemy
Enthusiasm
evening
exactly
excess
Explore
Factory
fair
famous
feast
field
finally
flap
float
flood
fold
fresh
Friendship
frighten
fuel
Gap
gaze
Generosity
gift
gravity
greedy
Harm
herd
Idea
insect
instrument
invent
Imagination
Independent
island
Joyful
Knowledge
Leader
Leadership
Listen
leap
lizard
local
lonely
luxury
March
mention
motor
Nervous
net
nibble
notice
Ocean
Patience
Pack
pale
parade
past
peak
planet
present
proof
Reflect
Respect
Responsibility
rumor
Safe
Safety
scholar
seal
search
settle
share
Sharing
shelter
shiver
shy
skill
slight
smooth
soil
stack
steady
strand
stream
support
Team
Teamwork
telescope
tiny
tower
travel
tremble
Trust
Universe
Village
Warn
weak
wealthy
whisper
wise
wonder
worry
Yard
Zigzag
