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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. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
eclectic
yacht
deduction
sacrifice
2. The astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in a year
random
sacrifice
light-year
repose
3. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
gargoyle
alliteration
ultraviolet
antibody
4. Very talented at one thing.
exponent
decorum
rain forest
guru
5. To refuse trade with a country
tumult
embargo
marsupial
guru
6. No pattern
random
recede
tundra
tumult
7. Evergreen trees with regular rainfall
formidable
fallacy
mosaic
rain forest
8. Things compaired without using like or as
boisterous
hologram
metaphor
mosaic
9. To pound - crush - or grind
alliteration
enthusiastic
ultraviolet
pulverize
10. A specified amount of something
vacillate
quota
ellipse
jovial
11. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
outrageous
participle
boycott
alliteration
12. To draw back from
recede
nuisance
quarantine
bamboozle
13. Move around
deign
jovial
maneuver
unanimous
14. Outlaw
deign
renegade
metaphor
labyrinth
15. A method of concealing or hiding military troops
camouflage
jovial
vacillate
participle
16. Picture writing.
mosaic
plateau
recede
hieroglyphic
17. To rejoice.
repose
immune
exult
wretched
18. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
virtuoso
accentuate
divulge
maneuver
19. A poisonous substance
divulge
toxin
omnivore
light-year
20. Showing great excitment or interest
mosaic
inference
enthusiastic
eclectic
21. Order of events. sequence of events.
metaphor
tumult
chronology
boisterous
22. Change in gene or chromosome
random
ultraviolet
strategy
mutation
23. Method - way of doing something
guerrilla
protagonist
technique
marsupial
24. Tradition. something passed down.
analogy
flourish
heritage
inference
25. A tax or duty imposed by the government
divulge
parasite
vertebrate
tariff
26. Plant tissue that conducts food
guru
mosaic
phloem
fallacy
27. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
impertinent
exult
renaissance
deduction
28. To bring out the best in
tumult
accentuate
enthusiastic
nocturnal
29. A flat close shape with 3 or more sides
polygon
nocturnal
fallacy
deduction
30. Stylish.
jaunty
solstice
tumult
nocturnal
31. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
chronology
spectrum
laconic
guerrilla
32. Organism that eats plants and animals
antibody
wretched
omnivore
tranquility
33. Poisonous gas layer
quota
aspire
ozone
inference
34. Beat of music
formidable
maneuver
fallacy
tempo
35. Everybody agrees
unanimous
virtuoso
bizarre
xylem
36. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
ellipse
tumult
phloem
omnivore
37. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
omnivore
eclectic
parasite
technique
38. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
deign
random
technique
divulge
39. Making a guess. hypothesis.
nocturnal
inference
cower
boisterous
40. Protected from getting a disease.
tranquility
protagonist
immune
vertebrate
41. To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
renaissance
rain forest
gargoyle
undulate
42. An animal that has a backbone
vertebrate
strategy
commemorate
technique
43. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
labyrinth
xylem
voracious
undulate
44. Depression
despondent
technique
mosaic
ellipse
45. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
xylem
boycott
laconic
nocturnal
46. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
cower
spectrum
jovial
divulge
47. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
guerrilla
bizarre
suffrage
antibody
48. Proper behavior or conduct
vaccine
bizarre
decorum
flourish
49. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
boycott
spectrum
hypocrisy
guerrilla
50. Mammal with a pouch
flourish
marsupial
quarantine
yacht