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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
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english
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vocabulary
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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. Short answers
dialogue
laconic
ellipse
symbiosis
2. A flat close shape with 3 or more sides
solstice
jovial
deign
polygon
3. Conversation
fallacy
laconic
dialogue
undulate
4. To draw back from
quota
recede
rain forest
quarantine
5. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
despondent
virtuoso
silhouette
antibody
6. Shot that protects you from not getting something - a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria
deign
symbiosis
stereotype
vaccine
7. Change in gene or chromosome
silhouette
immune
toxin
mutation
8. Showing great excitment or interest
quandary
parasite
ellipse
enthusiastic
9. To trick
bamboozle
ultraviolet
inference
outrageous
10. Outlaw
embargo
renegade
boycott
pulverize
11. Move around
maneuver
repose
eclectic
exponent
12. The branch of biology that studies animals
vacillate
nocturnal
zoology
sacrifice
13. Order of events. sequence of events.
chronology
suffrage
silhouette
xylem
14. To refuse trade with a country
phloem
yacht
aspire
embargo
15. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
hypocrisy
yacht
plateau
embargo
16. Difficult to defeat
pulverize
marsupial
formidable
nocturnal
17. Poisonous gas layer
ozone
polygon
analogy
laconic
18. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
eclectic
xylem
random
tranquility
19. An elevated piece of land
plateau
mosaic
laconic
unanimous
20. Rude
decorum
dialogue
exult
impertinent
21. Picture writing.
hieroglyphic
spectrum
quandary
laconic
22. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
wretched
decorum
vacillate
tundra
23. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
quarantine
xylem
toxin
pulverize
24. To rejoice.
phloem
renaissance
exult
ultraviolet
25. To honor memory of
rain forest
laconic
commemorate
boisterous
26. Everybody agrees
suffrage
unanimous
outrageous
guerrilla
27. To have a great ambition
random
maneuver
ozone
aspire
28. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
pulverize
flourish
voracious
hypocrisy
29. To bring out the best in
formidable
hypocrisy
accentuate
deign
30. The act of giving up something valued
vaccine
enthusiastic
flourish
sacrifice
31. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
spectrum
protagonist
ultraviolet
sacrifice
32. Organism that eats plants and animals
omnivore
antibody
light-year
lichen
33. A tax or duty imposed by the government
tariff
solstice
light-year
tranquility
34. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
ultraviolet
wretched
boisterous
voracious
35. A verb used as a noun: Working women
outrageous
participle
ozone
plateau
36. Proper behavior or conduct
toxin
mutation
inference
decorum
37. Mutual helpfulness - specifically the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
hologram
voracious
jovial
symbiosis
38. A specified amount of something
ozone
quota
undulate
nocturnal
39. Fungi
alliteration
antibody
lichen
voracious
40. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
parasite
labyrinth
tempo
sacrifice
41. Very talented at one thing.
nocturnal
guru
heritage
boisterous
42. Comparing 2 things that are not alike
ultraviolet
analogy
rain forest
embargo
43. To subtract.
zoology
plateau
deduction
nocturnal
44. Isolation for a amount of time for an animal or person
inference
xylem
quarantine
guerrilla
45. Plan
exponent
renegade
vacillate
strategy
46. Very strange or odd
bizarre
quarantine
parasite
jaunty
47. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
tranquility
lichen
solstice
silhouette
48. An extremely cold - dry biome
exponent
metaphor
tundra
guerrilla
49. To pound - crush - or grind
lichen
pulverize
accentuate
enthusiastic
50. No pattern
hologram
random
deduction
embargo