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100 Words For Every Middleschooler
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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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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. Emitting or reflecting light - glowing; illuminating
attentive
vulnerable
malleable
luminous
2. The ability to grow - develop - or improve
potential
waft
havoc
replenish
3. Listen without the speaker's knowledge
aptitude
momentum
kindle
eavesdrop
4. A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire
ignite
impending
ember
brandish
5. Make lighter or brighter
scarcity
illuminate
contortion
knoll
6. Very serious or sad
somber
adversary
recuperate
hasten
7. Easy to notice; obvious
conspicuous
tactic
vigilant
zeal
8. To float easily and gently on the air; drift
malleable
waft
jabber
counter
9. Alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful; Ex. attentive audience; Ex. He was attentive to the old lady; N. attentions: act of courtesy and consideration
jabber
materialize
defiance
attentive
10. Difficult to understand; partially hidden
bluff
commotion
obscure
cunning
11. Great enthusiasm for or devotion to a cause - ideal - or goal
counter
zeal
pertinent
brackish
12. To stick out - to project
hasten
jut
swagger
jargon
13. The act of making a noisy disturbance
apprehensive
waver
commotion
dispel
14. The power to resist fatigue or illness while working hard; endurance
obscure
stamina
apprehensive
multitude
15. An insufficient amount or supply; a shortage
swagger
deft
narrate
scarcity
16. A large number of bees; a large number of moving people - animals - or insects
versatile
aplomb
defiance
swarm
17. Watchful - careful
debris
recluse
vigilant
persistent
18. Cleverness; slyness
foresight
sociable
brackish
cunning
19. A small rounded hill
deft
potential
knoll
emerge
20. A large indefinite number
multitude
exhilerate
brackish
monotonous
21. Enjoying the company of others; Friendly
stamina
headway
versatile
sociable
22. Arousing wonder and fear - as if supernatural; eerie
potential
jostle
uncanny
ember
23. A person who lives apart from society and often alone
barricade
sabotage
uncanny
recluse
24. Gather or bring together -
jostle
outlandish
muster
somber
25. The act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)
jostle
circumference
specimen
contortion
26. To fill or make complete again - add a new stock or supply to.
kindle
repugnant
replenish
eavesdrop
27. Related to the matter at hand
weather
pertinent
meander
vulnerable
28. About to happen
engross
kindle
specimen
impending
29. To wander about - wind about; a sharp turn or twist
hasten
recluse
contortion
meander
30. The quality of being calm - peaceful - or untroubled
serenity
foresight
vulnerable
circumference
31. To make smaller or less
disdain
somber
kindle
diminish
32. Progress toward a destination or a goal
headway
quell
stamina
momentum
33. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
disdain
kindle
attentive
terse
34. Very great destruction - ruin; great confusion and disorder
diminish
knoll
havoc
apprehensive
35. To wave or flourish in a menacing or vigorous fashion
monotonous
barricade
sabotage
brandish
36. To run hurriedly w/ quick - short steps
scurry
barricade
materialize
narrate
37. Poise - assurance - great self-confidence; perpendicularity
aplomb
specimen
furtive
banish
38. The act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g. - yourself)
apprehensive
contortion
potential
commotion
39. Brief and to the point; concise
terse
ignite
sabotage
somber
40. To return to normal health or strength; recover
habitation
recuperate
kindle
somber
41. Cause to start burning
ember
ignite
jostle
jut
42. To wear away or change - as in color or surface texture - by exposure to the wind - rain - and other conditions of the atmosphere
narrate
recuperate
meander
weather
43. Having varied uses or functions
cunning
misgivings
egregious
versatile
44. The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
debris
waft
translucent
ember
45. A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
barricade
jargon
furtive
replenish
46. Indicating opposition or resistance
waft
counter
jut
kindle
47. The act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
persistent
habitation
counter
headway
48. Allowing light to shine through
zeal
deft
malleable
translucent
49. Outrageously bad; clearly wrong or illegal
havoc
somber
egregious
scarcity
50. To become real or actual; to appear in physical form - especially suddenly
materialize
contortion
furtive
destination