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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
polygon
rain forest
virtuoso
outrageous
2. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
silhouette
solstice
nuisance
labyrinth
3. Jolly
jovial
commemorate
bizarre
despondent
4. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
formidable
spectrum
gargoyle
outrageous
5. To have a great ambition
aspire
guerrilla
metaphor
kilometer
6. Picture writing.
metaphor
eclectic
omnivore
hieroglyphic
7. A verb used as a noun: Working women
participle
solstice
repose
flourish
8. Characterized by physical misery
symbiosis
wretched
silhouette
boisterous
9. Peace - relax - calmness
repose
nebula
ozone
labyrinth
10. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
lichen
omnivore
plateau
deign
11. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
technique
ultraviolet
yacht
commemorate
12. A specified amount of something
quota
silhouette
symbiosis
technique
13. Condition of uncertainty or doubt; confusion
quandary
repose
cower
spectrum
14. Conversation
ellipse
formidable
tundra
dialogue
15. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
despondent
renaissance
virtuoso
omnivore
16. To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
jaunty
technique
undulate
camouflage
17. A method of concealing or hiding military troops
camouflage
introspection
suffrage
renegade
18. Organism that eats plants and animals
omnivore
bamboozle
chronology
symbiosis
19. Rude
phloem
silhouette
jaunty
impertinent
20. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
introspection
yacht
stereotype
dialogue
21. Small pieces put to together to make a picture
mosaic
undulate
metaphor
vacillate
22. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
parasite
undulate
hologram
tumult
23. Comparing 2 things that are not alike
virtuoso
recede
despondent
analogy
24. Difficult to defeat
commemorate
wretched
formidable
fallacy
25. Active at night
lichen
heritage
nocturnal
virtuoso
26. Oval shaped.
nuisance
ellipse
tundra
nocturnal
27. 3d image.
hologram
marsupial
despondent
vertebrate
28. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
antibody
sacrifice
quandary
guerrilla
29. Not true. false. lie.
decorum
fallacy
solstice
marsupial
30. To trick
lichen
bamboozle
vacillate
participle
31. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
immune
deduction
introspection
nebula
32. To crouch back in fear
alliteration
camouflage
accentuate
cower
33. Quiet. thinks deeply to themselves.
quandary
renegade
introspection
zoology
34. Move around
hieroglyphic
embargo
maneuver
aspire
35. Annoying
random
nuisance
eclectic
technique
36. Stylish.
jaunty
heritage
ozone
silhouette
37. An animal that has a backbone
quandary
quarantine
phloem
vertebrate
38. Shot that protects you from not getting something - a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria
plateau
vaccine
kilometer
phloem
39. To do well. to grow and develop
quandary
flourish
fallacy
parasite
40. The astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in a year
technique
gargoyle
light-year
marsupial
41. Poisonous gas layer
antibody
ozone
hypocrisy
spectrum
42. Math matic symbol for multipling a number by itself as many times the little number says (example: 34 - 25 - 67)
jovial
tumult
mosaic
exponent
43. Everybody agrees
unanimous
accentuate
quota
pulverize
44. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
eclectic
xylem
accentuate
guerrilla
45. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
xylem
divulge
eclectic
exponent
46. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
tumult
eclectic
wretched
hypocrisy
47. Very strange or odd
participle
tranquility
bizarre
exponent
48. The act of giving up something valued
plateau
boisterous
flourish
sacrifice
49. Short answers
lichen
hieroglyphic
aspire
laconic
50. Very talented at one thing.
quota
inference
guru
wretched