100 words freshman should know (Scott)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Accentuate | To give prominence, emphasize or intensify |
| Alliteration | the repetiton of same sounds, especially at the beginning of words |
| Analogy | similiarity in some resects between things that are otherwise unlike |
| Antibody | a protein produced in the blood or tissues in response to the presence of a specific toxin |
| Aspire | to have a great ambition |
| Bamboozle | To decieve by elaborate trickery |
| Bizarre | very strange or odd |
| Boisterous | rough and stormy, violent |
| Boycott | to act together in refusing to use, buy from or deal with, as an expression of protest |
| Camouflage | a method of concealing military troops or equipment by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings |
| Chronology | the order or sequence of events |
| Commemorate | to honor the memory of with a ceremony |
| Cower | to crouch or draw back, as from fear or pain |
| Decorum | proper behavior or conduct |
| Deduction | the act of subtracting |
| Despondent | feeling depression of spirits from lost of hope |
| Dialogue | a conversation between two or more people |
| Deign | to be willing to do something that one considers beneath one's dignity |
| Divulge | to make known; reveal |
| Eclectic | choosing or taking what appears to be the best from various sources |
| Ellipse | a figure that forms a closed curve shaped like an ova with both ends alike |
| Embargo | an order by a government prohibiting merchant ships from entering or leaving its ports |
| Enthusiastic | having or showing great interest or excitement |
| Exponent | a number or symbol placed to the right of the expression |
| Exult | to rejoice greatly |
| Fallacy | a false notion or mistaken belief |
| Flourish | to grow or develop well; thrive |
| Formidable | arousing fear, dread, alarm or great concern |
| Gargoyle | a waterspout or ornamental figure in the form of a grotesque animal |
| Guerilla | a member of a military force that is not a part of a regular army |
| Guru | a Hindu spiritual teacher; a person who is followed as a leader |
| Heritage | something other than property passed down from preceding generations |
| Hieroglyphic | of or related to a system of writing, such as that of Ancient Egypt |
| Hologram | the photographic record of a three dimensional imaged |
| Hypocrisy | the practice of showing or expressing feelings, beleifs or birtues that one does not actually hold or posses |
| Immune | protected from diease naturally or by vaccination |
| Impertinent | offensiviely bold or rude |
| Inference | deciding or concluding by reasoning from evidence |
| Introspection | examination of one's own thoughts |
| Jaunty | showing a carefree self-confident air |
| Jovial | full of fun and good cheer |
| Kilometer | a unit of length equal to 1,000 meters |
| Labryinth | a complez structure of connect passages; a maze |
| Laconic | using few words; terse; concise |
| Lichen | an organism that consists of a fungus and an alga growing in close association with each other |
| Light-year | the distance light travels in one year |
| Manuever | a planned movement of troops or warships |
| Marsupial | any of various mammals, such as the kangaroo, whos young develops after birth in a pouch outside the female's body |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that is ordinarily associated with one thing is applied to something else |
| Mosaic | A picture or design made on a surface by fitting and cementing together small colored pieces, as of tile, glass, or stone |
| Mutation | a change in a gene or chormosome of an organism that can be inherited by its offspring |
| Nebula | a thinlu spread cloud of interstellar gas and dust |
| Nocturnal | of, relating to, or occuring at night |
| Nuisance | a source of inconvience or annoyance |
| Omnivore | eats both plants and animals |
| Outrageous | exceeding all ounds of what is right and proper |
| Ozone | a poisonous, unstable form of oxygen |
| Parasite | an organism that lived in or on a different kind of organsim |
| Participle | a verb form that is used with auxiliary verbs to indicate certain tenses |
| Ploem | a plant tissue that conducts food from leaves to other plant parts |
| Plateau | and elevated, comparatively level expanse of land |
| Poloygon | a flat, closed geometric figure bounded by three or more line segments |
| Protagonist | tthe main character in a drama or literary work |
| Pulverize | to pound,crush, or grind to powder or dust |
| Quarantine | A condition, period of itme, or place in which a person or animal is kept in isolation to prevent disease from spreading |
| Quandary | a condidion of unccertainty or doubt |
| Quota | an amount of something assigned to be done, made or sold |
| Rainforest | A dense forest with an annual rainfall of at least 160 inches |
| Random | having no specific pattern, purpose or objective |
| Recede | to move back or away from a limit, degree, point or mark |
| Renaissance | a rebirth or revival |
| Renegade | a person who rejects a cause, allegiance, religion, or group for another |
| Repose | the act of resting or the state of being at rest |
| Sacrifice | the act of giving up something highly valuable for the sake of something else of greater vauled |
| Silhouette | a drawing consising of the outline of something |
| Solstice | either of the times of year when the sun is farthest north or south of the equator |
| Spectrum | a band of colors seen when white light is broken up according to wave lengths |
| Stragedy | the science of using all of the forces of a nation as effectively as possible during peace or war |
| Stereotype | a conventional or oversimplified idea or image |
| Suffrage | the right to vote in political elections |
| Symbiosis | the close association between two or more different organsisms of different species |
| Tariff | a tax or duty imposed by a government on a category of imported or exported goods |
| Technique | a procedure or method of accomplising a complicated task |
| Tempo | the speed at which music ought to be played |
| Toxin | a poisionous substance produced by a libving organism |
| Tranquility | the quality of being free from disturbance; calmness |
| Tumult | noisy and disorderly activity |
| Tundra | a cold, treeless area of far northern region |
| Ultraviolet | relating to electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths shorter than those of visible light |
| Unanimous | sharing the same opinion |
| Undulate | to move in waves or with a smooth wavy motion |
| Vaccine | a substance that stimulates cells in the immune system to recognize and attack diesase-causing agents |
| Vacillate | to be unable to decide between one opinion or course of action or another |
| Vertebrate | any of a large group of animals having a backbone |
| Virtuoso | a musical performer of great exellencce |
| Voracious | eating or eager to geat amounts of food |
| Wreteched | very unhappy or unfortunate |
| Xylem | a plant tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals up from the roots |
| Yacht | any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure trips or racing |
| Zoology | the branch of biology that deals with animals |
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