SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Annoying
metaphor
sacrifice
nuisance
quarantine
2. Peaceful - quiet - rest
tranquility
nocturnal
repose
recede
3. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
gargoyle
ozone
marsupial
yacht
4. Oval shaped.
bamboozle
fallacy
ellipse
antibody
5. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
dialogue
voracious
heritage
jovial
6. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
parasite
cower
technique
vaccine
7. An elevated piece of land
random
quota
marsupial
plateau
8. To do well. to grow and develop
flourish
lichen
impertinent
exult
9. Conversation
ozone
technique
dialogue
vaccine
10. Repetiton of the same sounds
alliteration
recede
plateau
camouflage
11. Very strange or odd
gargoyle
ultraviolet
exult
bizarre
12. The act of giving up something valued
undulate
tumult
nuisance
sacrifice
13. Protected from getting a disease.
accentuate
immune
bizarre
tempo
14. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
virtuoso
spectrum
vacillate
boisterous
15. To rejoice.
tariff
solstice
quandary
exult
16. Showing great excitment or interest
enthusiastic
renaissance
protagonist
undulate
17. To bring out the best in
ultraviolet
accentuate
light-year
plateau
18. Rude
impertinent
outrageous
xylem
quandary
19. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
tumult
repose
cower
heritage
20. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
nebula
metaphor
ozone
deduction
21. To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
undulate
jaunty
bizarre
vacillate
22. Jolly
laconic
bizarre
dialogue
jovial
23. Stylish.
quarantine
suffrage
omnivore
jaunty
24. Fungi
lichen
light-year
eclectic
impertinent
25. Picture writing.
hieroglyphic
phloem
guru
rain forest
26. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
antibody
deduction
stereotype
vacillate
27. Peace - relax - calmness
aspire
quandary
mosaic
repose
28. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
guerrilla
pulverize
vacillate
zoology
29. The right to vote
random
suffrage
vaccine
boisterous
30. The astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in a year
ellipse
light-year
heritage
strategy
31. Mammal with a pouch
quota
toxin
marsupial
commemorate
32. To refuse trade with a country
cower
flourish
embargo
deduction
33. Proper behavior or conduct
decorum
protagonist
participle
nebula
34. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
commemorate
hologram
boisterous
virtuoso
35. 1000 meters
repose
voracious
deduction
kilometer
36. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
tranquility
symbiosis
phloem
eclectic
37. To refuse to use or buy from
tranquility
boycott
pulverize
repose
38. A tax or duty imposed by the government
tariff
tundra
aspire
virtuoso
39. A verb used as a noun: Working women
participle
deign
bamboozle
sacrifice
40. Everybody agrees
unanimous
guerrilla
technique
antibody
41. Change in gene or chromosome
mutation
accentuate
spectrum
polygon
42. Characterized by physical misery
pulverize
eclectic
maneuver
wretched
43. A flat close shape with 3 or more sides
polygon
repose
tumult
quota
44. A generalized belief about a group of people
laconic
guru
stereotype
light-year
45. Order of events. sequence of events.
polygon
zoology
chronology
toxin
46. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
embargo
divulge
hypocrisy
mosaic
47. To have a great ambition
tempo
aspire
introspection
random
48. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
protagonist
antibody
tempo
mosaic
49. Things compaired without using like or as
omnivore
ellipse
commemorate
metaphor
50. Making a guess. hypothesis.
virtuoso
inference
chronology
heritage