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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. To refuse to use or buy from
spectrum
boycott
omnivore
hypocrisy
2. Peaceful - quiet - rest
quandary
ozone
tranquility
decorum
3. To pound - crush - or grind
enthusiastic
repose
nocturnal
pulverize
4. An animal that has a backbone
commemorate
solstice
stereotype
vertebrate
5. To draw back from
virtuoso
tariff
recede
renegade
6. Boat - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
yacht
technique
divulge
decorum
7. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
nebula
divulge
lichen
cower
8. The branch of biology that studies animals
repose
deduction
technique
zoology
9. Evergreen trees with regular rainfall
rain forest
chronology
exponent
tempo
10. Proper behavior or conduct
enthusiastic
recede
decorum
divulge
11. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
antibody
suffrage
ellipse
vacillate
12. Plan
silhouette
bamboozle
strategy
plateau
13. The right to vote
labyrinth
suffrage
tranquility
tundra
14. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
camouflage
labyrinth
guerrilla
quandary
15. Tradition. something passed down.
heritage
metaphor
omnivore
mosaic
16. To rejoice.
exult
analogy
antibody
guerrilla
17. Very strange or odd
gargoyle
bizarre
participle
mutation
18. Things compaired without using like or as
impertinent
metaphor
commemorate
solstice
19. Not true. false. lie.
alliteration
lichen
yacht
fallacy
20. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
ultraviolet
unanimous
analogy
guru
21. A tax or duty imposed by the government
maneuver
chronology
tariff
kilometer
22. To subtract.
jaunty
dialogue
deduction
quota
23. Math matic symbol for multipling a number by itself as many times the little number says (example: 34 - 25 - 67)
metaphor
hypocrisy
exponent
lichen
24. Repetiton of the same sounds
nuisance
alliteration
immune
accentuate
25. To bring out the best in
strategy
quandary
quarantine
accentuate
26. Organism that gets it nourishment from another
pulverize
repose
decorum
parasite
27. Jolly
xylem
jovial
metaphor
cower
28. Plant tissue that conducts food
spectrum
phloem
laconic
sacrifice
29. Rude
jaunty
kilometer
impertinent
tariff
30. Showing great excitment or interest
enthusiastic
exult
recede
protagonist
31. Everybody agrees
jaunty
stereotype
vacillate
unanimous
32. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
solstice
despondent
strategy
participle
33. Beat of music
plateau
participle
ultraviolet
tempo
34. Stylish.
jaunty
vacillate
hieroglyphic
ellipse
35. Mutual helpfulness - specifically the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent
quota
marsupial
accentuate
symbiosis
36. 1000 meters
spectrum
participle
kilometer
symbiosis
37. Annoying
jaunty
unanimous
decorum
nuisance
38. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
bizarre
gargoyle
sacrifice
omnivore
39. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
spectrum
jovial
vaccine
technique
40. Comparing 2 things that are not alike
plateau
analogy
tumult
tempo
41. To trick
bamboozle
random
dialogue
vacillate
42. The time period from the 14th or 16th century where there was a revival of the arts
strategy
protagonist
solstice
renaissance
43. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
embargo
plateau
outrageous
vaccine
44. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
tariff
dialogue
mutation
divulge
45. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
xylem
hypocrisy
hieroglyphic
tumult
46. Characterized by physical misery
dialogue
wretched
flourish
exult
47. To do well. to grow and develop
wretched
stereotype
flourish
heritage
48. Fungi
light-year
solstice
lichen
marsupial
49. Short answers
metaphor
nuisance
laconic
hologram
50. To crouch back in fear
camouflage
tundra
deduction
cower