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Does your vocabulary measure up? A confident command of a growning vocabulary is one of the bst indicators of acheivement
in school.
Building pn the success of the popular 100 WOrds Every High School Graduate Should Know, the editors of the American
Heritage Dictionaries are pleased to introduce a new list of words geared toward the reading level expected of high school
freshmen. With its attractive format and thoughtful word selection, 100 Words Every High School Student Should Know will
spur students to add new words to thir vocabularies as they make the important transition from middle school to high school.
- Accentuate
- Alliteration
- Analogy
- Antibody
- Aspire
- Bamboozle
- Bizarre
- Boisterous
- Boycott
- Camouflage
- Chronology
- Commemorate
- Cower
- Decorum
- Deduction
- Deign
- Despondent
- Dialogue
- Divulge
- Eclectic
- Ellipse
- Embargo
- Enthusiastic
- Exponent
- Exult
- Fallacy
- Flourish
- Formidable
- Gargoyle
- Guerilla
- Guru
- Heritage
- Hieroglyphic
- Hologram
- Hypocrisy
- Immune
- Impertinent
- Inference
- Introspection
- Jaunty
- Jovial
- Kilometer
- Labyrinth
- Laconic
- Lichen
- Light-year
- Maneuver
- Marsupial
- Metaphor
- Mosaic
- Mutation
- Nebula
- Nocturnal
- Nuisance
- Omnivore
- Outrageous
- Ozon
- Parasite
- Participle
- Phloem
- Plateau
- Polygon
- Protagonist
- Pulverize
- Quandary
- Quarantine
- Quota
- Rainforest
- Random
- Recede
- Renaissance
- Renegade
- Ropose
- Sacrifice
- Silhuette
- Sostice
- Spectrum
- Stereotype
- Strategy
- Suffrage
- Symbiosis
- Tariff
- Technique
- Tempo
- Toxin
- Traquility
- Tumult
- Tundra
- Ultraviolet
- Unanimous
- Undulate
- Vaccine
- Vacillate
- Vertebrate
- Virtuoso
- Voracious
- Wretched
- Xylem
- Yacht
- Zoology
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