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100 Words Every High School Student Should Know

Does your vocabulary measure up? A confident command of a growing vocabulary is one of the best indicators of achievement in school.

 

Building on 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 towards the reading level expected of high school freshmen. With its attractive format and thoughtful word selection, 100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know will spur students to add new words to their vocabularies as they make the important transition from middle school to high school.

 

1.   Accentuate          37. Impertinent           73. Repose

2.  Alliteration          38. Inference              74. Sacrifice

3.  Analogy          39. Introspection        75. Silhouette

4.   Antibody         40. Jaunty                   76. Solstice

 5.  Aspire            41. Jovial                    77. Spectrum

 6.  Bamboozle          42. Kilometer             78. Stereotype

 7.      Bizarre          43. Labyrinth              79. Strategy

      8.  Boisterous                 44. Laconic           80. Suffrage

  9.  Boycott           45. Lichen                   81. Symbiosis

 10. Camouflage        46. Light-year       82. Tariff

11.  Chronology    47. Maneuver       83. Technique

12. Commemorate       48. Marsupial       84. Tempo     

 13. Cower             49. Metaphor              85. Toxin

  14.  Decorum        50. Mosaic                 86. Tranquility

   15.  Deduction            51. Mutation               87. Tumult

         16.Deign                    52. Nebula            88. Tundra

    17.Despondent      53. Nocturnal              89. Ultraviolet

     18.Dialogue        54. Nuisance              90. Unanimous

     19. Divulge           55. Omnivore       91. Undulate

      20.Eclectic          56. Outrageous        92. Vaccine

     21. Ellipse            57. Ozone                   93. Vacillate

      22.Embargo        58. Parasite               94. Vertebrate

      23.Enthusiastic      59. Participle              95. Virtuoso

      24.Exponent       60. Phloem                 96. Voracious

      25.Exult          61. Plateau                 97. Wretched

      26.Fallacy               62. Polygon                98. Xylem

      27.Flourish          63. Protagonist         99. Yacht        

      28.Formidable          64. Pulverize           100. Zoology

      29.Gargoyle       65. Quandary

      30.Guerrilla          66. Quarantine

      31.Guru          67. Quota       

      32.Heritage        68. Rainforest

      33.Hieroglyphic      69. Random

      34.Hologram       70. Recede

      35.Hypocrisy       71. Renaissance

      36.Immune                 72. Renegade