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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
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Subjects
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. An extremely cold - dry biome
tundra
metaphor
vaccine
aspire
2. A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
rain forest
virtuoso
flourish
boisterous
3. Order of events. sequence of events.
ellipse
chronology
heritage
accentuate
4. Active at night
nocturnal
guru
ozone
embargo
5. Characterized by physical misery
voracious
xylem
wretched
yacht
6. To refuse trade with a country
commemorate
fallacy
boisterous
embargo
7. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
cower
sacrifice
divulge
nocturnal
8. Maze
boycott
marsupial
tumult
labyrinth
9. Organism that eats plants and animals
kilometer
vacillate
suffrage
omnivore
10. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
outrageous
tundra
enthusiastic
mosaic
11. A poisonous substance
toxin
laconic
renegade
light-year
12. Jolly
jovial
eclectic
wretched
hologram
13. Mammal with a pouch
ozone
outrageous
polygon
marsupial
14. Tradition. something passed down.
parasite
kilometer
heritage
commemorate
15. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
camouflage
commemorate
undulate
solstice
16. Change in gene or chromosome
aspire
mutation
omnivore
jaunty
17. Beat of music
tempo
vaccine
gargoyle
bamboozle
18. Mutual helpfulness - specifically the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
symbiosis
mosaic
divulge
labyrinth
19. Shot that protects you from not getting something - a substance that stimulates the body to produce chemicals that destroy viruses or bacteria
maneuver
vaccine
silhouette
omnivore
20. Poisonous gas layer
embargo
chronology
ozone
aspire
21. Proper behavior or conduct
tundra
accentuate
decorum
mosaic
22. Showing great excitment or interest
enthusiastic
plateau
suffrage
heritage
23. A method of concealing or hiding military troops
nuisance
mutation
deduction
camouflage
24. A generalized belief about a group of people
tranquility
virtuoso
stereotype
polygon
25. A tax or duty imposed by the government
technique
vertebrate
tariff
bamboozle
26. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
exult
suffrage
hypocrisy
outrageous
27. An animal that has a backbone
tumult
antibody
vertebrate
omnivore
28. To pound - crush - or grind
pulverize
nocturnal
virtuoso
heritage
29. To draw back from
vertebrate
recede
flourish
inference
30. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
gargoyle
aspire
phloem
guerrilla
31. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
metaphor
renaissance
laconic
bizarre
32. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
ultraviolet
mosaic
unanimous
solstice
33. Quiet. thinks deeply to themselves.
quandary
renaissance
introspection
nebula
34. The branch of biology that studies animals
chronology
vertebrate
guerrilla
zoology
35. To crouch back in fear
flourish
yacht
cower
maneuver
36. To bring out the best in
accentuate
guru
symbiosis
inference
37. To refuse to use or buy from
undulate
polygon
boycott
boisterous
38. Everybody agrees
unanimous
sacrifice
mosaic
participle
39. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
virtuoso
vacillate
wretched
boisterous
40. Short answers
boycott
laconic
vaccine
embargo
41. To trick
bamboozle
mutation
technique
boisterous
42. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
kilometer
deign
tranquility
protagonist
43. A specified amount of something
gargoyle
antibody
aspire
quota
44. To have a great ambition
hypocrisy
aspire
outrageous
sacrifice
45. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
random
ozone
yacht
suffrage
46. Having a huge appetite - greedy - ravenous; excessively eager
antibody
voracious
phloem
guru
47. Annoying
boycott
toxin
nuisance
ellipse
48. A flat close shape with 3 or more sides
nuisance
plateau
polygon
exult
49. Plant tissue that conducts food
deign
phloem
sacrifice
boycott
50. To do well. to grow and develop
ultraviolet
decorum
flourish
random