diff --git a/.cspell.json b/.cspell.json
index 4de95cc..0c4c40d 100644
--- a/.cspell.json
+++ b/.cspell.json
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 {
   "language": "en",
-  "dictionaries": ["companies", "filetypes", "fullstack", "softwareTerms"],
+  "dictionaries": [
+    "companies",
+    "filetypes",
+    "fullstack",
+    "softwareTerms"
+  ],
   "words": [
     "aquasecurity",
     "artipacked",
@@ -34,24 +39,7 @@
     "urfave",
     "zizmor"
   ],
-  "flagWords": [
-    "abort",
-    "abortion",
-    "blackhat",
-    "black-hat",
-    "whitehat",
-    "white-hat",
-    "cripple",
-    "crippled",
-    "master",
-    "slave",
-    "tribe",
-    "sanity-check",
-    "whitelist",
-    "white-list",
-    "blacklist",
-    "black-list"
-  ],
+  "flagWords": [],
   "ignorePaths": [
     ".cspell.json",
     "CODEOWNERS",
@@ -63,7 +51,9 @@
   "languageSettings": [
     {
       "languageId": "markdown",
-      "ignoreRegExpList": ["/^\\s*```\\s*(mermaid)[\\s\\S]*?^\\s*```/gm"]
+      "ignoreRegExpList": [
+        "/^\\s*```\\s*(mermaid)[\\s\\S]*?^\\s*```/gm"
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/.mega-linter.yml b/.mega-linter.yml
index b93d824..0a7591c 100644
--- a/.mega-linter.yml
+++ b/.mega-linter.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ DISABLE_ERRORS_LINTERS:
   - SPELL_CSPELL
 YAML_YAMLLINT_CONFIG_FILE: .yamllint
 SPELL_CSPELL_ANALYZE_FILE_NAMES: false
+SPELL_CSPELL_PRE_COMMANDS:
+  - command: >-
+      cp .cspell.json /tmp/cspell.json.orig &&
+      curl -sSf
+      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxfoundation/lfx-public-workflows/main/cspell/flagwords.snippet.json
+      -o /tmp/flagwords.snippet.json &&
+      sed -i -e '/"flagWords": \[\]/{r /tmp/flagwords.snippet.json' -e 'd}' .cspell.json
+    cwd: "workspace"
+    continue_if_failed: false
+SPELL_CSPELL_POST_COMMANDS:
+  - command: cp /tmp/cspell.json.orig .cspell.json
+    cwd: "workspace"
 # Ignore YAML files with templating macros; these typically fail linting and/or
 # schema checking.
 FILTER_REGEX_EXCLUDE: '(templates/.*\.yml|templates/.*\.yaml)'