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100 words vocab
| Term | Definition | Part of Speech |
|---|---|---|
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more people | noun |
| bamboozle | to deceive by elaborate trickery; to trick | verb |
| deign | to be willing to do something that one considers beneath one’s dignity | verb |
| chronology | the order or sequence of events | noun |
| accentuate | to give prominence to; to emphasize or intensify | verb |
| divulge | to make known; reveal; tell | verb |
| analogy | to similarity between things that are otherwise unlike | noun |
| eclectic | choosing or taking what appears to be best from various sources | adjective |
| boycott | to act together to refuse to have dealings with in protest | verb |
| cower | to crouch or draw back as if in fear | verb |
| decorum | proper behavior or conduct; propriety | noun |
| commemorate | to honor the memory of someone, esp. with a ceremony | verb |
| despondent | feeling depression from loss of hope, confidence, or courage | adjective |
| boisterous | rough and stormy; lacking restraint or discipline | adjective |
| immune | not affected by a given influence; unresponsive | adjective |
| fallacy | a false notion or mistaken belief | noun |
| gargoyle | a waterspout or ornamental figure in the form of a grotesque animal or person projecting from the gutter of a building | noun |
| impertinent | offensively bold; rude | adjective |
| flourish | to draw or develop well; thrive | verb |
| jovial | full of fun and good cheer; jolly | adjective |
| laconic | using few words; terse; concise | adjective |
| maneuver | to change tactics or approach; plan skillfully | verb |
| inference | the act or process of deciding or concluding by reasoning from evidence | noun |
| guerilla | a member of a military force that is not part of a regular army and operates in small bands | noun |
| formidable | arousing fear, dread, alarm or great concern | adjective |
| exult | to rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant | verb |
| guru | a person who is followed as a leader or teacher | noun |
| quandary | a condition of uncertainty or doubt; a dilemma | noun |
| protagonist | the main character in a drama or literary work | noun |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring at night; active | adjective |
| labyrinth | something complicated or confusing in design or construction | noun |
| jaunty | having or showing a carefree self-confident air | adjective |
| nebula | a thinly spread cloud of interstellar gas and dust | noun |
| mutation | a change in genre or chromosome of an organism that can be inherited by its offspring | noun |
| exponent | a number or symbol, paced to the right of and above the expression to which it applies that indicates the number of times a mathematical expression is used as a factor | noun |
| pulverize | to pound, crash, or grind to powder or dust | verb |
| ellipse | a figure that forms a closed curve shaped like an oval with both ends alike | noun |
| recede | to move back or away from a limit, degree, point, or mark | verb |
| phloem | a plant tissue that conducts food from the leaves to the other plants | noun |
| embargo | a prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with foreign nation | noun |
| hypocrisy | the practice expressing feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not actually hold or possess | noun |
| lichen | an organism that consists of a fungus and an alga growing in close association to each other | noun |
| quota | an amount of something assigned, as to be done, made, or sold | noun |
| voracious | eating or eager to eat great amounts of food; ravenous | adjective |
| mosaic | a picture or design made on a surface by fitting and cementing together small colored pieces | noun |
| repose | the act of resting or the state of being at rest | verb |
| tempo | the speed at which music is or ought to be played | noun |
| outrageous | exceeding all bounds of what is right or proper; immoral or offensive | adjective |
| hieroglyphic | a system of writing in which pictures and symbols are used to represent words | noun |
| suffrage | the right to vote in political elections | noun |
| renaissance | a rebirth or revival | noun |
| stereotype | a conventional or oversimplified idea or image | noun |
| renegade | a person who rejects a cause, allegiance, religion, or group for another | noun |
| virtuoso | a musical performer of great excellence, technique, or ability | noun |
| silhouette | an outline of something that appears dark against a light background | noun |
| xylem | a plant tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals up from the roots through the stem to the leaves and provides support for the softer tissues | noun |
| parasite | an organism that lives in or on a different kind of organism from which it gets nourishment and to which it is sometimes harmful | noun |
| tumult | noisy and disorderly actively; a commotion or disturbance; an uproar | noun |
| participle | a verb form used with auxiliary verbs to indicate certain tenses that can also function as an adjective | noun |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same sound, esp. at the beginning of words | noun |
| camouflage | concealment by appearing to be part of natural surroundings | noun |
| deduction | the act of subtracting; a conclusion reached by his process bizarre: very strange or odd | verb |
| antibody | a protein produced in the body that fights off bad cells | noun |
| enthusiastic | having or showing great interest or excitement | adjective |
| heritage | something other than property passed down from preceding generations; a tradition | noun |
| introspection | the examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings | noun |
| kilometer | a unit of length equal to 1,000 meters or .062 of a mile | noun |
| plateau | an elevated, comparatively level of expanse of land | noun |
| hologram | the photographic record of a three-dimensional image produced by recording on a photographic plate | noun |
| nuisance | a source of inconvenience or annoyance; a bother | noun |
| polygon | a flat, closed, geometric figure bounded by three or more line segments | noun |
| omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals | noun |
| zoology | the branch of biology that deals with animals | noun |
| random | having no specific patterns, purpose, or objective | adjective |
| toxin | a poisonous substance produced by a living organism | noun |
| light year | the distance that light travels in one year, about 5.88 trillion miles | noun |
| marsupial | any of various mammals, whose young develop after birth in a pouch on the outside of the body | noun |
| ozone | a poisonous, unstable form of oxygen that has three atoms per molecule rather than the usual two | noun |
| yacht | any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels for pleasure trips or racing | noun |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that is ordinarily associated with one thing is applied to something else, thus making a comparison | noun |
| rainforest | a dense evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 160 | noun |
| tariff | a tax or duty imposed by a government on imported or exported goods | noun |
| wretched | very unhappy or unfortunate; miserable | adjective |
| tundra | a cold, treeless, usually lowland area of far northern regions | noun |
| unanimous | sharing all the same opinion; being fully in agreement | adjective |
| technique | a procedure or method for accomplishing a complicated task, as in a science or an art | noun |
| vacillate | to be unable to decide between one opinion of course of action and another; waver | verb |
| spectrum | a broad range of related qualities, ideas, or activities | noun |
| quarantine | a condition, period of time, or place in which a person or animal is confined in an effort to prevent a disease from spreading | noun |
| solstice | either of the times of year when the sun is farthest north or south of the equator | noun |
| undulate | to move in waves or with a smooth wavy motion | verb |
| vertebrae | any of a large group of animals having a backbone, including the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals | noun |
| tranquility | the quality or condition of being free from disturbance; calmness; a serenity | noun |
| sacrifice | the act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to be of greater value | verb |
| vaccine | a substance that stimulates cells in the immune system to recognize and attack disease-causing agents, especially through the production of antibodies | noun |
| symbiosis | the close association between two or more different organisms of different species, often but not necessarily benefiting each member | noun |
| ultraviolet | of or relating to electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths shorter than those of visible light but longer than those of x-rays | adjective |
| strategy | a plan of action arrived at by means of this science or intended to accomplish a specific goal | noun |
| Aspire | to have great ambition; to desire strongly | verb |
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Vanessa.VanLaanen
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