JOHOR SPELLING ASSESSMENT STANDARD (JOSAS)

FORM 3
1. above accept attempt
2. all ancient agriculture
3. add audience advertisement
4. after backbone beneath
5. again backward behaviour
6. ago balance breathe
7. arrest bargain bridge
8. also boast bury
9. always border business
10. and breakfast century
11. already bribe ceremony
12. among brick chimney
13. answer centre coast
14. animal certain compete
15. apply capital congratulate
16. apart castle conquer
17. beard chain courage
18. beggar create coward
19. beautiful cushion curtain
20. behind coal current
21. blame compare dictionary
22. bottom complain death
23. brain bread burst
24. branch break bush
25. brave brother button
26. come court difficult
27. camp cupboard discipline
28. cart desert discuss
29. date describe distance
30. delay develop edge
31. chimney catch captain
32. chalk cheap check
33. chief church circle
34. degree diamond educate
35. danger devil encourage
36. dig diet exercise
37. dirty direction excellent
38. double dish forward
39. dozen divide flour
40. elastic dull fright
41. explore expensive furniture
42. east earth further
43. fate fence garage
44. famous false government
45. forest field handsome
46. forgive flood haste
47. finish gentle headache
48. grow guilty height
49. heal hire honest
50. hunger ignore instead
51. hurt inch introduce
52. ill insect island
53. jump invent kitchen
54. juice journey knife
55. lamp ladder knock
56. lazy lake language
57. lean library laugh
58. lesson lightning melt
59. often listen middle
60. once loaf mosque
61. owe loose mountain
62. opposite loyal music
63. parcel machine mystery
64. patience mail narrow
65. permit manner naughty
66. pigeon map neat
67. pinch market neighbour
68. plump material nephew
69. polish measure nest
70. praise recent obedient
71. punishment recycle ocean
72. quick regret salary
73. quality reply satisfy
74. rail responsible seldom
75. raise restaurant separate
76. rapid reward shallow
77. reach rude shelf
78. reason rough shelter
79. surround slight shoulder
80. station shout steady
81. signal steam steer
82. struggle straight stretch
83. smooth society surround
84. swallow system soldier
85. taste taxi technology
86. telegraph toothbrush tough
87. towards temple terrible
 88. translate travel therefore
89. these truth thought
90. threaten thunder tight
91. toenails tired treat
92. ugly under upper
93. weapon weather ward
94. wash welcome week
95. which wicked winter
96. witness window without
97. woman worry worship
98. would wrap write
99. wrong year yellow
100. yesterday young zero

LIST 1

NO. WORD MEANING

1 After (ADJ) Later than something ; following something in time
2 arrest (VB) Seize somebody with the authority of the law
3 Always At all times without exception
(ADV)
4 Already Before now or before a stated or suggested time
(ADV)
5 among Surrounded by something or somebody
(ADV)
6 Apart To or at a distance
(ADV)
7 Beard (N) Hair growing on the chin and the lower cheeks of a mans face
8 Beggar (N) A person who lives by begging
9 Beautiful Having beauty ; giving pleasure to the senses or the mind
(ADJ)
10 Behind In or to a position at the back of something or somebody
(ADV)
11 Blame (VB) Consider or say that somebody is responsible for sth done or not
done
12 Bottom The lowest part of something
(ADV)
13 Brain (N) The organ inside your head that controls, movement, thought,
memory and feeling
14 Branch (N) Arm-like division of a tree
15 Brave Willing to do things which are difficult, dangerous or painful
(ADJ)
16 Delay Being slow or late
(ADV)
17 Chimney A structure through which smoke or stem is carried up away from a
(N) fire etc
18 Degree (N) A unit of measurement for angle
19 Danger (N) The possibility of something happening that will injure, harm or kill
20 Elastic Returning to its normal or previous size or shape after being pulled
(ADJ) or pressed
21 Explore To travel to or around an area or a country in order to learn about it
(VB)
22 East (N) Point of the horizon where the sun rises
23 Fate (N) The things especially bad things that will happen or have happened
24 forgive Stop being angry, blaming or wanting to punish
(VB)
25 Heal (VB) Cause something to become healthy again
26 Lean (VB) To bend or move from an upright position
27 Lesson (N) Things to be learnt by a pupil
28 Owe (VB) Have to pay somebody for something that you have already
received
29 Opposite On the other side of a particular area from somebody / something
(ADV) and usually facing them
30 Parcel (N) Things wrapped up for carrying or sending by post
31 Patience (N) The ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying
without complaining
32 Permit (VB) Give permission for something
33 pinch (VB) To take a piece of somebodys skin between your thumb and first
finger and squeeze hard
34 surround Cause something to move into position all round something
(VB)
35 struggle To try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when there
(VB) are a lot of problems
36 Smooth Having an even surface without points or lumps
(ADJ)
37 translate To express the meaning of speech or writing in a different language
(VB)
38 threaten Make a threat against somebody
(VB)
39 Weapon (N) An object such as a knife, gun, bomb etc that is used for fighting or
attacking somebody
40 Witness (N) A person who sees an event takes place and is therefore able to
describe it to others

LIST 2
NO. WORD MEANING
1 Accept Take something offered willingly
(VB)
2 Ancient Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the
(ADJ) past
3 Audience The group of people who have gathered to watch or listen to
(N) something
4 Backbone The row of small bones that are connected together down the
(N) middle of the back
5 Backward Directed or moving towards the back
(ADV)
6 Balance (N) Even distribution of weight; steadiness
7 Bargain (N) A thing bought for less than the usual price
8 Boast (VB) Talk about ones own achievement with too much pride
9 Border (N) The line that divides two countries or areas
10 Centre (N) Point that is equally distant from all sides of something
11 Certain That you can rely on to happen or to be true
(ADJ)
12 Capital (N) Town or city that is the centre of government of a country
13 Castle (N) A large strong building with thick high walls and towers built in the
past by kings and queens
14 Chain (N) Connected metal links or rings
15 Create (VB) To make something happen or exist
16 Cushion (N) Small bag filled with soft materials or feather
17 Coal (N) A hard black mineral that is found below the ground and burnt to
produce heat
18 Compare To examine people or things to see how they are similar and how
(VB) they are different
19 Complain Say that one is dissatisfied, unhappy
(VB)
20 Desert (N) A large area of land that has very little water and very few plants
growing on it
21 Describe Say what something is like in words
(VB)
22 Develop To gradually grow or become bigger
(VB)
23 Catch (VB) Stop and hold a moving object especially in the hands
24 Cheap Costing little money or less money than you expected
(ADJ)
25 Direction Course taken by a moving person or thing
(N)
26 dish (N) A flat shallow container for cooking food in or serving it from
27 Divide (VB) Cause something to split or break into parts
28 Dull (ADJ) Not interesting or exciting
29 Expensive Costing a lot of money
 (ADJ)
30 Earth (N) The world, the planet that we live on
31 Gentle Mild, kind, careful
(ADJ)
32 Guilty Feeling ashamed because you have done something that you know
(ADJ) is wrong or have not done something that you should have done
33 Hire (VB) Obtain the use of something or the eservices of somebody
temporarily
34 Ignore (VB) To pay no attention to something
35 Material (N) Cloth used for making clothes, curtains etc
36 Measure (N) Standard or system used in stating the size, quantity or degree of
something
37 Recent That happened or began only a short time ago
(ADJ)
38 Recycle Treat used material so that it can be used again
(VB)
39 Regret To feel sorry about something you have done or something that you
(ADJ) have not been able to do
40 Society(N) System whereby people live together in organised communities

LIST 3

NO. WORD MEANING

1 Attempt (VB) Make an effort to accomplish something
2 Agriculture The science or practice of farming
(N)
3 Advertisement A notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or
(N) service
4 Beneath In or to a lower position than something
(ADV)
5 Behaviour (N) The way that somebody behaves especially towards other people
6 Breathe (VB) Take air into the lungs and send it out again
7 Century (N) A period of 100 years
8 Ceremony (N) Formal act or series of formal acts performed on a religious or
public occasion
9 Compete Try to win something by defeating others who are trying to do the
(VB) same
10 Congratulate To tell somebody that you are pleased about their success or
(VB) achievement
11 Conquer (VB) Take possession or something by forced
12 Courage (VB) The ability to do something dangerous or to face pain or
opposition without showing fear
13 Coward A person who is not brave or who does not have the courage to do
 (ADJ) things that other people do not think are especially difficult
14 Difficult Not easy
(ADJ)
15 Discipline (N) The practice of training people to obey rules and orders and
punishing them if they do not
16 Discuss (VB) Talk or write about something
17 Distance (N) The amount of space between two places or things
18 Edge (N) Short cutting part of a blade or knife
19 Circle (N) A completely round flat shape
20 Educate (VB) Teach somebody
21 Encourage To give somebody support, courage or hope
(VB)
22 Exercise (N) Use or practice of the mind or body through effort or action
23 Excellent Extremely good
(ADJ)
24 Forward Directed or moving towards the front
(ADJ)
25 Government The group of people who are responsible for controlling a country
(N) or a state
26 Handsome Good-looking
(ADJ)
27 Haste (N) Speed in doing something especially because you do not have
enough time
28 Headache (N) Continuous pain in the head
29 Height (N) The measurement of how tall a person or thing is
30 Honest (ADJ) Telling the truth
31 Laugh (VB) To make the sounds of movements of your face that show you are
happy or think something is funny
32 Melt (VB) Cause something to become liquid through heating
33 Middle (N) The part of something that is at an equal distance from all its
edges or sides
34 Obedient Doing what one is told to do
(ADJ)
35 Ocean (N) Mass of salt water that covers most of the earths surface
36 Salary (N) Money that employees receive for doing the job
37 Satisfy (VB) Give somebody what he wants, demands or needs
38 Seldom Not often
(ADV)
39 Separate (VB) Cause things or people to come apart; divide
40 Shallow Not having much distance between the top or surface and the
(ADJ) bottom