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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. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
tumult
solstice
commemorate
suffrage
2. Tradition. something passed down.
embargo
gargoyle
heritage
undulate
3. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
deign
nuisance
gargoyle
phloem
4. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
technique
tariff
gargoyle
outrageous
5. To do well. to grow and develop
plateau
participle
flourish
vertebrate
6. An animal that has a backbone
camouflage
vaccine
nocturnal
vertebrate
7. Showing great excitment or interest
jovial
spectrum
quarantine
enthusiastic
8. To draw back from
light-year
voracious
random
recede
9. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
zoology
renaissance
vacillate
flourish
10. Everybody agrees
unanimous
metaphor
silhouette
recede
11. Condition of uncertainty or doubt; confusion
quandary
analogy
heritage
mosaic
12. Mutual helpfulness - specifically the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
plateau
tariff
heritage
symbiosis
13. The right to vote
yacht
suffrage
kilometer
fallacy
14. Repetiton of the same sounds
alliteration
tundra
maneuver
boisterous
15. Oval shaped.
ellipse
heritage
plateau
xylem
16. Isolation for a amount of time for an animal or person
omnivore
rain forest
quarantine
lichen
17. Outline of body
eclectic
wretched
tariff
silhouette
18. A tax or duty imposed by the government
laconic
sacrifice
tariff
camouflage
19. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
inference
deduction
voracious
jaunty
20. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
despondent
tundra
parasite
commemorate
21. Very strange or odd
bizarre
boycott
nocturnal
recede
22. Outlaw
exult
tempo
hieroglyphic
renegade
23. Proper behavior or conduct
enthusiastic
decorum
quarantine
despondent
24. The astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in a year
light-year
undulate
dialogue
lichen
25. Protected from getting a disease.
accentuate
hypocrisy
outrageous
immune
26. Annoying
alliteration
nuisance
cower
kilometer
27. Change in gene or chromosome
mutation
omnivore
wretched
plateau
28. Evergreen trees with regular rainfall
commemorate
protagonist
rain forest
bamboozle
29. Not true. false. lie.
deign
embargo
metaphor
fallacy
30. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
guerrilla
rain forest
mosaic
eclectic
31. The act of giving up something valued
sacrifice
labyrinth
aspire
toxin
32. Difficult to defeat
phloem
xylem
exponent
formidable
33. Depression
aspire
silhouette
analogy
despondent
34. To have a great ambition
exponent
aspire
despondent
strategy
35. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
xylem
bizarre
decorum
nuisance
36. The branch of biology that studies animals
silhouette
voracious
deduction
zoology
37. Jolly
phloem
bamboozle
parasite
jovial
38. Characterized by physical misery
wretched
quandary
rain forest
stereotype
39. 3d image.
hologram
flourish
boisterous
undulate
40. An elevated piece of land
mosaic
plateau
aspire
camouflage
41. Shot that protects you from not getting something - a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria
participle
rain forest
vacillate
vaccine
42. To crouch back in fear
despondent
renegade
quarantine
cower
43. 1000 meters
vacillate
enthusiastic
impertinent
kilometer
44. A method of concealing or hiding military troops
rain forest
mutation
lichen
camouflage
45. Order of events. sequence of events.
gargoyle
chronology
tranquility
inference
46. To trick
symbiosis
bamboozle
enthusiastic
undulate
47. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
vacillate
renegade
quota
zoology
48. Fungi
random
spectrum
lichen
nebula
49. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
spectrum
nuisance
embargo
guerrilla
50. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
parasite
mosaic
nebula
nuisance