100 Words every student should know entering high school

Found this list in the Sunday NYT. I'm willing to bet lots of people don't know these words. What a shame.


accentuate, alliteration, analogy, antibody, aspire, bamboozle, bizarre, boisterous, boycott, camouflage, chronology, commemorate, cower, decorum, deduction, deign, despondent, dialogue, divulge, eclectic, ellipse, embargo, enthusiastic, exponent, exult, fallacy, flourish, formidable, gargoyle, guerrilla, guru, heritage, hieroglyphic, hologram, hypocrisy, immune, impertinent, inference, introspection, jaunty, jovial, kilometer, labyrinth, laconic, lichen, light-year, marsupial, maneuver, metaphor, mosaic, mutation, nebula, nocturnal, nuisance, omnivore, outrageous, ozone, parasite, participle, phloem, plateau, polygon, protagonist, pulverize, quandary, quarantine, quota, rainforest, random, recede, renaissance, renegade, repose, sacrifice, silhouette, solstice, spectrum, stereotype, strategy, suffrage, symbiosis, tariff, technique, tempo, toxin, tranquility, tumult, tundra, ultraviolet, unanimous, undulate, vaccine, vacillate, vertebrate, virtuoso, voracious, wretched, xylem, yacht, zoology.