100 Words Every Freshman Should Know - VOCABULARY

During the second semester all students in Years 9 through 11 will study for vocabulary the 100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know. Each week they will learn the spellings and meanings of 10 words and will be tested by word puzzles, anagrams and regular spelling tests.

The editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries have developed this new book of 100 words tailored especially to high school freshmen. This second book in the 100 Words series focuses on the kinds of words that a successful middle school graduate can learn from rigorous coursework in a variety of subjects and that nearly every freshman will encounter over the course of the school year.

The words have been chosen with various criteria in mind. Some represent key concepts in important areas of the curriculum, while others are more familiar in meaning but present challenges of spelling or usage. All are words that students can expect to see regularly in their high school reading and beyond. To learn them is not only to gain useful knowledge — it is to step into a broader world.

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

1. accentuate 2. alliteration 3. analogy 4. antibody 5. aspire 6. bamboozle 7. bizarre 8. boisterous 9. boycott 10. camouflage
11. chronology 12. commemorate 13. cower 14. decorum 15. deduction 16. deign 17. despondent 18. dialogue 19. divulge 20. eclectic
21. ellipse 22. embargo 23. enthusiastic 24. exponent 25. exult 26. fallacy 27. flourish 28. formidable 29. gargoyle 30. guerrilla
31. guru 32. heritage 33. hieroglyphic 34. hologram 35. hypocrisy 36. immune 37. impertinent 38. inference 39. introspection 40. jaunty
41. jovial 42. kilometer 43. labyrinth 44. laconic 45. lichen 46. light-year 47. maneuver 48. marsupial 49. metaphor 50. mosaic
51. mutation 52. nebula 53. nocturnal 54. nuisance 55. omnivore 56. outrageous 57. ozone 58. parasite 59. participle 60. phloem
61. plateau 62. polygon 63. protagonist 64. pulverize 65. quandary 66. quarantine 67. quota 68. rain forest 69. random 70. recede
71. renaissance 72. renegade 73. repose 74. sacrifice 75. silhouette76. solstice 77. spectrum 78. stereotype 79. strategy 80. suffrage
81. symbiosis 82. tariff 83. technique 84. tempo 85. toxin 86. tranquility 87. tumult 88. tundra 89. ultraviolet 90. unanimous
91. undulate 92. vaccine 93. vacillate 94. vertebrate 95. virtuoso 96. voracious 97. wretched 98. xylem 99. yacht 100. zoology

For more information contact the publisher of the book by clicking on this link.