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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
Subjects
:
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer
50
questions in
20 minutes
.
2 minutes extra for reading the instructions.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
decorum
silhouette
voracious
laconic
2. Move around
maneuver
fallacy
metaphor
bamboozle
3. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
quandary
parasite
accentuate
chronology
4. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
gargoyle
nuisance
stereotype
plateau
5. The right to vote
quandary
formidable
suffrage
hypocrisy
6. Very talented at one thing.
hologram
guru
symbiosis
jovial
7. To have a great ambition
aspire
pulverize
hypocrisy
yacht
8. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
chronology
jovial
solstice
strategy
9. Method - way of doing something
technique
phloem
embargo
impertinent
10. To refuse trade with a country
exult
embargo
mosaic
heritage
11. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
tumult
pulverize
gargoyle
camouflage
12. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
wretched
rain forest
vacillate
suffrage
13. An animal that has a backbone
camouflage
stereotype
vertebrate
maneuver
14. Beat of music
quarantine
jaunty
aspire
tempo
15. Proper behavior or conduct
rain forest
decorum
tundra
zoology
16. To pound - crush - or grind
pulverize
mosaic
tariff
alliteration
17. Plant tissue that conducts food
vaccine
pulverize
heritage
phloem
18. Fungi
guerrilla
guru
participle
lichen
19. Difficult to defeat
spectrum
boycott
formidable
inference
20. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
xylem
impertinent
formidable
alliteration
21. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
outrageous
yacht
bizarre
bamboozle
22. To refuse to use or buy from
boycott
silhouette
gargoyle
deduction
23. Characterized by physical misery
undulate
exponent
wretched
quarantine
24. Evergreen trees with regular rainfall
technique
xylem
rain forest
yacht
25. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
introspection
divulge
participle
strategy
26. A flat close shape with 3 or more sides
exponent
polygon
nocturnal
kilometer
27. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
aspire
boisterous
deign
despondent
28. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
vacillate
silhouette
yacht
eclectic
29. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
cower
tundra
pulverize
virtuoso
30. To do well. to grow and develop
renegade
flourish
boisterous
strategy
31. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
hypocrisy
renaissance
cower
inference
32. Short answers
eclectic
laconic
chronology
accentuate
33. Organism that eats plants and animals
nocturnal
gargoyle
omnivore
bamboozle
34. Mammal with a pouch
jovial
hieroglyphic
renegade
marsupial
35. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
accentuate
vaccine
outrageous
mosaic
36. The leading character - hero - or heroine of a drama or other literary work
heritage
xylem
tempo
protagonist
37. 1000 meters
kilometer
ozone
maneuver
technique
38. To crouch back in fear
decorum
cower
marsupial
quandary
39. Very strange or odd
unanimous
inference
technique
bizarre
40. A poisonous substance
toxin
tundra
nocturnal
quarantine
41. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
hologram
spectrum
hypocrisy
stereotype
42. Tradition. something passed down.
heritage
boisterous
quandary
guru
43. Not true. false. lie.
boisterous
xylem
fallacy
bamboozle
44. Jolly
jaunty
jovial
eclectic
random
45. Noisy - violent
boisterous
omnivore
ozone
light-year
46. Maze
chronology
nuisance
labyrinth
guerrilla
47. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
alliteration
divulge
decorum
ultraviolet
48. To trick
quarantine
stereotype
bamboozle
vaccine
49. To subtract.
heritage
deduction
wretched
camouflage
50. Active at night
xylem
nocturnal
chronology
renaissance