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100 Words For Every Highschool Freshman
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english
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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. Tradition. something passed down.
heritage
sacrifice
quota
polygon
2. Beat of music
plateau
exult
quarantine
tempo
3. Noisy - violent
boisterous
tundra
silhouette
toxin
4. No pattern
tempo
random
rain forest
chronology
5. To be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity
mosaic
renegade
bamboozle
deign
6. Exceeding all bounds of what is right
inference
hologram
fallacy
outrageous
7. A tax or duty imposed by the government
tranquility
gargoyle
labyrinth
tariff
8. Oval shaped.
xylem
boycott
ellipse
mosaic
9. An animal that has a backbone
technique
vertebrate
phloem
vacillate
10. Very talented at one thing.
ellipse
guru
recede
yacht
11. A pretense of having a virtuous character - moral or religious beliefs or principles - etc. - that one does not really possess.
hypocrisy
jaunty
bamboozle
formidable
12. A statue some people use to 'scare bad sprits away'
chronology
strategy
pulverize
gargoyle
13. Change in gene or chromosome
xylem
formidable
mutation
flourish
14. Making a guess. hypothesis.
symbiosis
introspection
inference
polygon
15. A poisonous substance
vertebrate
vacillate
immune
toxin
16. To swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will
vacillate
outrageous
quandary
boisterous
17. Outline of body
jaunty
deign
silhouette
gargoyle
18. Twice-yearly point at which the Sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
tariff
solstice
mutation
recede
19. Conversation
dialogue
impertinent
pulverize
nuisance
20. Random. all over the place (like having all different types of music on an ipod)
eclectic
kilometer
metaphor
embargo
21. Comparing 2 things that are not alike
parasite
analogy
mosaic
jaunty
22. The branch of biology that studies animals
kilometer
bizarre
zoology
cower
23. Depression
despondent
maneuver
outrageous
strategy
24. Repetiton of the same sounds
jovial
nuisance
vaccine
alliteration
25. To rejoice.
tundra
repose
jaunty
exult
26. To trick
mutation
spectrum
lichen
bamboozle
27. To have a great ambition
aspire
repose
gargoyle
virtuoso
28. To draw back from
hologram
recede
camouflage
tundra
29. Harmful rays from sun - one kind of electromagnetic radiation produced by the Sun.
chronology
ozone
mutation
ultraviolet
30. An elevated piece of land
repose
laconic
plateau
undulate
31. Poisonous gas layer
nuisance
random
recede
ozone
32. To honor memory of
vertebrate
unanimous
cower
commemorate
33. Difficult to defeat
wretched
antibody
tempo
formidable
34. Jolly
jovial
impertinent
aspire
hieroglyphic
35. To refuse to use or buy from
tumult
divulge
suffrage
boycott
36. Mammal with a pouch
hieroglyphic
nuisance
marsupial
polygon
37. Annoying
embargo
nuisance
rain forest
xylem
38. To reveal private information; to spread something (like a secret)
technique
strategy
flourish
divulge
39. Noisy loud - opposite of tranquility
fallacy
tumult
bamboozle
quandary
40. 1000 meters
silhouette
decorum
kilometer
chronology
41. A protein in blood or tissues that protect you against certain germs
random
ultraviolet
repose
antibody
42. A band of colors(rainbow) - broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities. Also a band of colors
polygon
quandary
tranquility
spectrum
43. Plan
undulate
tundra
immune
strategy
44. Stylish.
flourish
jaunty
laconic
omnivore
45. The vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
stereotype
jaunty
vaccine
xylem
46. Military force that is not a part of a regular army and operates in small bands
mosaic
nuisance
guru
guerrilla
47. Not true. false. lie.
cower
bizarre
embargo
fallacy
48. Isolation for a amount of time for an animal or person
polygon
boycott
quarantine
repose
49. The astronomical measurement of the distance light travels in a year
mutation
immune
embargo
light-year
50. Fungi
polygon
deign
zoology
lichen