Does your vocabulary measure? 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 toward
the reading level expected og 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 72.
Renegade
2. Alliteration 38.
Inference 73. Repose
3. Analogy 39.
Introspection 74. Sacrifice
4. Antibody 40.
Jaunty 75. Silhouette
5. Aspire 41.
Jovial 76. Solstice
6. Bamboozle 42.
Kilometer 77. Spectrum
7. Bizarre
43. Labyrinth 78. Stereotype
8. Boisterous 44.
Laconic 79. Strategy
9. Boycott 45.
Lichen 80. Suffrage
10.Camouflage 46. Light-year 81.
Symbiosis
11.Chronology 47. Maneuver
82. Tariff
12.Commemorate 48. Marsupial 83.
Technique
13.Cower
49. Metaphor 84. Tempo
14.Decorum
50. Mosaic 85. Toxin
15.Deduction 51.
Mutation 86. Tranquility
16.Deign
52. Nebula 87. Tumult
17.Despondent 53. Nocturnal 88.
Tundra
18.Dialogue
54. Nuisance 89. Ultraviolet
19.Divulge 55.
Omnivore 90. Unanimous
20.Eclectic
56. Outrageous 91. Undulate
21.Ellipse
57. Ozone 92. Vaccine
22.Embargo 58.
Parasite 93. Vacillate
23.Enthusiastic 59. Participle 94.
Vertebrate
24.Exponent 60.
Phloem 95. Virtuoso
25.Exult 62.
Plateau 96. Voracious
26.Fallacy
63. Polygon 97. Wretched
27.Flourish
64. Protagonist 98. Xylem
28.Formidable
65. Pulverize 99. Yacht
29.Gargoyle
66. Quandary 100. Zoology
30.Guerilla 67.
Quarantine
31.Guru
68. Rainforest
32.Heritage 69.
Random
33.Hieroglyphic 70. Recede
34.Hologram 71.
Renaissance
35.Hypocrisy
36.Immune
