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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. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
guerrilla
despondent
nocturnal
plateau
2. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
guerrilla
plateau
deign
mutation
3. To pound - crush - or grind
eclectic
pulverize
alliteration
metaphor
4. Peaceful - quiet - rest
quarantine
hypocrisy
tranquility
laconic
5. Rude
flourish
renegade
impertinent
vertebrate
6. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
gargoyle
toxin
eclectic
unanimous
7. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
solstice
impertinent
mutation
divulge
8. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
eclectic
pulverize
tumult
parasite
9. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
voracious
heritage
commemorate
fallacy
10. The leading character - hero - or heroine of a drama or other literary work
technique
introspection
rain forest
protagonist
11. The branch of biology that studies animals
metaphor
analogy
repose
zoology
12. The act of giving up something valued
sacrifice
analogy
bamboozle
quarantine
13. To honor memory of
virtuoso
commemorate
repose
mosaic
14. Math matic symbol for multipling a number by itself as many times the little number says (example: 34 - 25 - 67)
light-year
exponent
heritage
analogy
15. The right to vote
participle
suffrage
decorum
cower
16. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
bizarre
suffrage
lichen
divulge
17. To bring out the best in
accentuate
strategy
exponent
commemorate
18. Characterized by physical misery
lichen
wretched
symbiosis
renaissance
19. To trick
bamboozle
nocturnal
yacht
inference
20. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
silhouette
solstice
antibody
tempo
21. A generalized belief about a group of people
dialogue
stereotype
antibody
tranquility
22. To subtract.
quarantine
nuisance
silhouette
deduction
23. Difficult to defeat
formidable
guru
boisterous
light-year
24. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
cower
tariff
suffrage
ultraviolet
25. To refuse to use or buy from
immune
repose
strategy
boycott
26. Noisy - violent
unanimous
antibody
boisterous
tumult
27. Isolation for a amount of time for an animal or person
quarantine
polygon
pulverize
silhouette
28. Outline of body
divulge
plateau
boycott
silhouette
29. An extremely cold - dry biome
recede
tundra
marsupial
decorum
30. To do well. to grow and develop
gargoyle
embargo
despondent
flourish
31. 1000 meters
tumult
kilometer
spectrum
renaissance
32. Depression
nuisance
despondent
tumult
decorum
33. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
wretched
cower
renaissance
ellipse
34. To refuse trade with a country
embargo
vacillate
unanimous
impertinent
35. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
gargoyle
nocturnal
lichen
cower
36. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
deduction
alliteration
nuisance
hypocrisy
37. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
omnivore
tariff
deduction
outrageous
38. Jolly
jovial
tumult
marsupial
ellipse
39. A poisonous substance
bizarre
sacrifice
toxin
vacillate
40. Making a guess. hypothesis.
inference
phloem
hieroglyphic
laconic
41. Evergreen trees with regular rainfall
guru
outrageous
labyrinth
rain forest
42. Very strange or odd
tumult
dialogue
bizarre
polygon
43. Mutual helpfulness - specifically the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
tundra
symbiosis
nuisance
lichen
44. Mammal with a pouch
toxin
voracious
marsupial
zoology
45. No pattern
random
mosaic
laconic
hypocrisy
46. To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
exult
undulate
flourish
phloem
47. Everybody agrees
unanimous
inference
toxin
flourish
48. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
parasite
outrageous
yacht
camouflage
49. Active at night
nocturnal
hologram
unanimous
hypocrisy
50. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
spectrum
stereotype
technique
introspection
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