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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Characterized by physical misery
despondent
wretched
accentuate
enthusiastic
2. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
parasite
protagonist
repose
ellipse
3. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
outrageous
labyrinth
bamboozle
eclectic
4. Outlaw
guru
hieroglyphic
renegade
symbiosis
5. The act of giving up something valued
cower
sacrifice
vacillate
lichen
6. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
alliteration
divulge
aspire
guerrilla
7. To have a great ambition
pulverize
aspire
despondent
chronology
8. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
xylem
introspection
decorum
metaphor
9. Very strange or odd
bizarre
plateau
renaissance
analogy
10. The leading character - hero - or heroine of a drama or other literary work
hologram
eclectic
protagonist
spectrum
11. Order of events. sequence of events.
light-year
bamboozle
guerrilla
chronology
12. A poisonous substance
light-year
polygon
immune
toxin
13. Small pieces put to together to make a picture
mosaic
quota
ozone
maneuver
14. Conversation
dialogue
ozone
nebula
guru
15. To refuse trade with a country
nebula
antibody
commemorate
embargo
16. Proper behavior or conduct
participle
solstice
decorum
stereotype
17. No pattern
eclectic
random
light-year
maneuver
18. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
flourish
quota
ultraviolet
tempo
19. Short answers
marsupial
divulge
mutation
laconic
20. Showing great excitment or interest
heritage
enthusiastic
voracious
sacrifice
21. To refuse to use or buy from
boycott
sacrifice
plateau
suffrage
22. Rude
impertinent
quandary
wretched
hypocrisy
23. To draw back from
bamboozle
recede
renaissance
boycott
24. Plan
eclectic
strategy
aspire
gargoyle
25. A verb used as a noun: Working women
gargoyle
suffrage
deign
participle
26. To trick
ozone
unanimous
bamboozle
jovial
27. Tradition. something passed down.
boycott
heritage
bamboozle
strategy
28. Comparing 2 things that are not alike
outrageous
vertebrate
polygon
analogy
29. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
solstice
voracious
jovial
commemorate
30. Plant tissue that conducts food
protagonist
phloem
impertinent
maneuver
31. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
spectrum
random
repose
vacillate
32. Making a guess. hypothesis.
bizarre
inference
exult
alliteration
33. The branch of biology that studies animals
ultraviolet
accentuate
zoology
suffrage
34. Not true. false. lie.
fallacy
tempo
impertinent
vacillate
35. Picture writing.
suffrage
embargo
maneuver
hieroglyphic
36. To do well. to grow and develop
toxin
boycott
flourish
formidable
37. Move around
gargoyle
maneuver
silhouette
toxin
38. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
mosaic
analogy
gargoyle
tumult
39. Repetiton of the same sounds
alliteration
unanimous
quandary
divulge
40. To subtract.
hieroglyphic
nebula
deduction
accentuate
41. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
dialogue
participle
antibody
ultraviolet
42. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
embargo
omnivore
immune
deign
43. 1000 meters
kilometer
silhouette
rain forest
hypocrisy
44. Active at night
phloem
unanimous
commemorate
nocturnal
45. To rejoice.
undulate
exult
sacrifice
tempo
46. Stylish.
jaunty
tundra
divulge
guerrilla
47. Organism that eats plants and animals
vertebrate
yacht
repose
omnivore
48. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
marsupial
solstice
labyrinth
symbiosis
49. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
lichen
heritage
spectrum
exponent
50. Everybody agrees
voracious
unanimous
symbiosis
commemorate