At the homeschool bee, our practice has to been to use only words that we believe a reasonably well-read adult might actually expect to run across in their reading.
At all levels of the competition, the official dictionary for the bee is Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. There are half a million entries in that dictionary and any word is theoretically fair game. Some of the words used in the later rounds of the regional and national bees can be very obscure. It's not possible to memorize them all, but students can have a lot of learning about etymology in exploring the dictionary playfully.
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Noah Webster, author of America's First Dictionary
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