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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. To have a great ambition
exponent
recede
sacrifice
aspire
2. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
alliteration
gargoyle
enthusiastic
hypocrisy
3. Showing great excitment or interest
enthusiastic
heritage
mutation
tariff
4. 1000 meters
xylem
inference
vacillate
kilometer
5. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
spectrum
immune
boycott
accentuate
6. Isolation for a amount of time for an animal or person
parasite
quarantine
ellipse
despondent
7. Maze
immune
labyrinth
aspire
jaunty
8. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
symbiosis
nebula
alliteration
virtuoso
9. The branch of biology that studies animals
zoology
jaunty
marsupial
symbiosis
10. An extremely cold - dry biome
stereotype
tundra
tumult
immune
11. Poisonous gas layer
tempo
flourish
ozone
labyrinth
12. Quiet. thinks deeply to themselves.
metaphor
hologram
tranquility
introspection
13. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
jovial
xylem
nocturnal
fallacy
14. Organism that eats plants and animals
omnivore
ellipse
repose
gargoyle
15. To refuse trade with a country
embargo
yacht
outrageous
voracious
16. To draw back from
fallacy
recede
strategy
introspection
17. To trick
bamboozle
inference
xylem
omnivore
18. No pattern
symbiosis
random
aspire
silhouette
19. Method - way of doing something
technique
undulate
kilometer
jaunty
20. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
vacillate
quarantine
silhouette
zoology
21. Short answers
laconic
virtuoso
alliteration
undulate
22. Small pieces put to together to make a picture
mosaic
pulverize
hologram
nocturnal
23. A tax or duty imposed by the government
ultraviolet
light-year
cower
tariff
24. Repetiton of the same sounds
labyrinth
kilometer
eclectic
alliteration
25. Order of events. sequence of events.
recede
dialogue
hieroglyphic
chronology
26. To crouch back in fear
gargoyle
cower
formidable
decorum
27. Condition of uncertainty or doubt; confusion
quandary
ellipse
exult
voracious
28. Plant tissue that conducts food
ultraviolet
outrageous
phloem
technique
29. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
fallacy
outrageous
deduction
analogy
30. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
renaissance
nebula
fallacy
recede
31. Beat of music
undulate
tempo
deduction
bamboozle
32. To rejoice.
nebula
exult
jaunty
protagonist
33. Protected from getting a disease.
ultraviolet
boisterous
immune
camouflage
34. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
sacrifice
plateau
hieroglyphic
ultraviolet
35. Active at night
inference
despondent
nocturnal
strategy
36. Change in gene or chromosome
laconic
tranquility
mutation
parasite
37. The right to vote
vaccine
repose
mutation
suffrage
38. Outline of body
silhouette
hologram
voracious
antibody
39. Jolly
jovial
renaissance
tariff
repose
40. A generalized belief about a group of people
accentuate
stereotype
inference
jaunty
41. The act of giving up something valued
sacrifice
virtuoso
rain forest
spectrum
42. Everybody agrees
boycott
yacht
unanimous
eclectic
43. Noisy - violent
wretched
deduction
phloem
boisterous
44. Shot that protects you from not getting something - a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria
silhouette
gargoyle
heritage
vaccine
45. To pound - crush - or grind
inference
silhouette
pulverize
marsupial
46. To bring out the best in
virtuoso
divulge
accentuate
nuisance
47. Annoying
nuisance
antibody
protagonist
pulverize
48. To subtract.
tariff
jaunty
deduction
aspire
49. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
voracious
phloem
alliteration
inference
50. To do well. to grow and develop
flourish
hologram
mosaic
quandary